Show your Bird Portraits

[becceric]

If it's for your enjoyment, then do as you wish. Art Morris on his birdsasart site recomposes scenes wholesale. I am not going to pass judgement. How did you remove the branch from the front of the duck?

using Pixelmator Pro, I clone stamped his feathers of the same shade over the branch.

 

[becceric]

I have done this and I don't feel bad about it.

If it can be done well and improves the image I don't see a problem with it.

I don't see it as a misrepresentation of the image because all you're doing is making the image more presentable. I have no doubt that if you could get in a position to have gotten a cleaner shot you would have.

I live on an Island. Half of the time alternate positions for me to get a desired shot would require me to have a boat. It also drastically impacts my ability to work with the light.

I shoot for fun and for my own enjoyment. I'm not going for profit. I don't see a problem.

I like your result. It's a good picture.

Thanks.

 

[bhf3737]

A wood duck and its reflection. Very colorful bird indeed.
EOS R + Sigma 60-600

 

[ISv]

Here's one today with a twig or two obscuring the bird. But, this photo means everything to me. I have been like an anxious grandfather with the brooding longtailed tits in my garden. First, I thought they had abandoned the nest, then I saw her in it. Relief. Then this morning, there were several small downy feathers on our lawn, and I thought they had been predated. Then later, he flew to the nest with a juicy caterpillar. Joy. The anxiety will continue as their nest is too exposed and there are squirrels and magpies around.
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Even anchored in your garden you have quiet a fun (and emotions) Alan! Good luck for "your" Longtail!

 

[ISv]

A wood duck and its reflection. Very colorful bird indeed.
EOS R + Sigma 60-600
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Very nice one bhf3737!

 

[becceric]

A wood duck and its reflection. Very colorful bird indeed.
EOS R + Sigma 60-600
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Man, am I envious of that photo!

 

[bhf3737]

Very nice one bhf3737!

Man, am I envious of that photo!

Thanks a lot guys. When birds are cooperating, many things goes right, I guess. Fortunately the woody was oblivion to the people around.

 

[Click]

Beautiful shot, bhf3737.

 

[bhf3737]

Beautiful shot, bhf3737.

Many thanks Click!

 

[AlanF]

I am finding far more small birds in my garden now I am forced to be there than I see on my normal trips. They are often too small and far away, just fitting into the tiny red focus point rectangle. This pair of Blackcaps from yesterday were upsized by a factor of 2 after huge cropping and then using PS, and sharpened with Topaz. They are just good enough to be in an album at small size. Until now, I had hardly ever seen a Blackcap.

 

[Maximilian]

some tries on a coot. I like those glaring red eyes in the sun.

 

[Maximilian]

A wood duck and its reflection. Very colorful bird indeed.

I'd call this pic close to perfection. Bird and his reflechtion, the soft waves in the BG. Great!
For my personal taste a little bit too much sharpening which I can recognize by the HDR effect at the leg/foot (like it was traced with a pen).
If you've pushed the color saturation - which I'd done, too - maybe do a little bit less.
But that's just me. No real critics.

 

[bhf3737]

I'd call this pic close to perfection. Bird and his reflechtion, the soft waves in the BG. Great!
For my personal taste a little bit too much sharpening which I can recognize by the HDR effect at the leg/foot (like it was traced with a pen).
If you've pushed the color saturation - which I'd done, too - maybe do a little bit less.
But that's just me. No real critics.

Thanks Maximilian. I really appreciate your comment. I used the old NIK color effects filter and perhaps pushed it a bit too much to enhance colors.
This one below of another Woddy is perhaps more natural but a bit noisy.

 

[dcm]

Northern Flicker this morning after 14 inches of snow yesterday. EOS 1DX2 with 11-24/4 L.

 

[Macoose]

dcm,

Very Nice!! I really like wide angle photos.

 

[AlanF]

dcm,

Very Nice!! I really like wide angle photos.

So do I. But, here is the OP of this thread, the most successful longrunning one on CR:

Post your Bird Portraits here

Parrots, Birds of Prey, Herons and all the others ... Just post your portraits here

The main idea of this topic is that the bird is clearly the main part component of the picture and that it is not a bird in flight or small bird on large tree or group shot ...

 

[Jack Douglas]

So do I. But, here is the OP of this thread, the most successful longrunning one on CR:

Of course that was the original person's intent but we regularly (well, not too regularly) deviate from that.

Jack

 

[AlanF]

Of course that was the original person's intent but we regularly (well, not too regularly) deviate from that.

Jack

As regular as Halley's Comet visiting once every 76 years?

 

[Macoose]

So do I. But, here is the OP of this thread, the most successful longrunning one on CR:

Alan,
Thank you for reminding me of the Op's intent for this thread. Every once in a while someone deviates from that intent and posts a picture that is off topic.
This time however, I was not the person who posted the off topic photograph. I merely commented on the off topic post.
I would respectfully hope that in the future you would post the Op's intent to the person who posted the off topic photo in the first place.

Thank You
Macoose

 

[AaronT]

Northern Flicker this morning after 14 inches of snow yesterday. EOS 1DX2 with 11-24/4 L.

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Hi dcm. Where do you live to get that much white stuff this time of year? Now I don't feel so bad about the inch or two we got yesterday in the Windsor, Ontario region. But this Cardinal wasn't too impressed.