Show your Bird Portraits
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Hi Eric
Welcome to the Bird Portraits thread! They are the type of thing that Art Morris of birdsasart would photoshop out. But, it all depends on what you want the image for: as a work of art or for the record. I can see other things in the image that are more problematic - such as out of focus images across the breast of other objects in front of it that appear as stripes. If you want more striking images, the less the distractions the better. If it's an interesting bird for the record, who cares about these distractions.
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Weather hasn't been cooperating lately, so it's been a while since I've had something to post. Today continued the trend, until a kind bird paid me a visit. Saw this Cooper's Hawk resting on my neighbors fence...he is facing a small open field, presumably looking for a snack. R5 w/100-500 + 2x TC.
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There are lots of juvenile birds in my garden, attracted by the feeders. Last night as the sun was going down I put the 1.4x on the 100-500mm for a change and got some interesting shots as the light tended to golden. The juvenile Eurasian Robin is looking unusual as he is losing his fledgling feathers. The young Blackbird I discovered post-shooting had found a beetle. 
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! For the photos: 
It's difficult but possible! Concentrate on the highlights! I use to try to get a detail in the highlights and accommodate (if necessary!) the rest. You will get some not very white colors in the shades but you can correct some of these in PP (at least with the PL4 - I already don't remember what were doing the previous versions
). The distance from which you are shooting is important too: for such a big bird you may need shorter lens or zoom... And the sensor!!!This is not the real framing: my files were saying ~430kb but CR was saying "files to big"?! Whatever - I think I have the detail here?
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Did you change the order in your comment Alan? It seems to me the Black bird is first
! Whatever - good shoots!
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From yesterday: my first Brown Noddy (bad photos but in such a hot day with the boulders in front of the bird and a distance 18-23 meters you shouldn't expect anything better...)
After that just a Saffron Finch - both birds are common here but for the Brown Noddy landed(!) you have to go to some small Islets on the East side of Oahu. In fly you usually have to be on boat (they fly low and relatively far from the shore). Whatever -my third new species in the last few weeks!!! In 2020 I had "0"!!! The Saffron Finch is common and somewhat easy but I'm sure most of the guys will like it better (well, it looks better!) than the Noddy!
After that just a Saffron Finch - both birds are common here but for the Brown Noddy landed(!) you have to go to some small Islets on the East side of Oahu. In fly you usually have to be on boat (they fly low and relatively far from the shore). Whatever -my third new species in the last few weeks!!! In 2020 I had "0"!!! The Saffron Finch is common and somewhat easy but I'm sure most of the guys will like it better (well, it looks better!) than the Noddy!
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Just for you, a flying Brown Noddy. And at the risk of being thrown out of CR, I took this with a Sony RX10 IV superzoom bridge camera. Interestingly, Sony hasn't brought out a new model in 4 years and it remains their flagship in its class. They did do a firmware upgrade so it has has eyeAF at 20 fps with the AF from the A9. I use it only very rarely but a high quality 24-600mm zoom is a very handy piece of kit.
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It's difficult but possible! Concentrate on the highlights! I use to try to get a detail in the highlights and accommodate (if necessary!) the rest. You will get some not very white colors in the shades but you can correct some of these in PP (at least with the PL4 - I already don't remember what were doing the previous versions
This is not the real framing: my files were saying ~430kb but CR was saying "files to big"?! Whatever - I think I have the detail here?
Nice shot, ISv.
I did my homework. This is a picture from yesterday morning. The bird is in direct sunlight. (Early morning light)
Thank you usern4cr, Alan.and ISv for your help.
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Nice shot Click! Most of your birds are shot from a very nice low level, where they look their best. Were you in your kayak?
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