Show your Bird Portraits
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Click, Maximilian,
Thank you, guys! They are really cute and seem to be friendly. But they can hide very well among the rock. So I never find them in the same place I saw them before.
I tried to shoot a short video of an owl eating a locust that it had just caught.
Thank you, guys! They are really cute and seem to be friendly. But they can hide very well among the rock. So I never find them in the same place I saw them before.
I tried to shoot a short video of an owl eating a locust that it had just caught.
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These are uncropped and only downscaled pics of a robin.
I was close to a feeding place, trying to get a decent pic of a nuthatch.
I just leaned against a birch, no cover, no camo, no special clothes - just skiing underwear at about -8°C
Just enjoyed watching the birds battle for the cold buffet, quarrelling about the best place and order for the food.
Suddenly that little fellow landed on a twig just about 1,5 - maybe 2 - meters away from me.
I think I never had any wild bird closer than that.
For more than 3 minutes it was watching me even more curious than I did the birds.
Wonderful moment...
The only pity was that it was really in the shadow. So the details are so-so.
5D4, 100-400L II + 1.4 TC @560 mm, f/8, 1/200, ISO3200
Detail pic is a 1:1 crop of the first pic, ISO 3200 is killing a lot of detail
I was close to a feeding place, trying to get a decent pic of a nuthatch.
I just leaned against a birch, no cover, no camo, no special clothes - just skiing underwear at about -8°C
Just enjoyed watching the birds battle for the cold buffet, quarrelling about the best place and order for the food.
Suddenly that little fellow landed on a twig just about 1,5 - maybe 2 - meters away from me.
I think I never had any wild bird closer than that.
For more than 3 minutes it was watching me even more curious than I did the birds.
Wonderful moment...
The only pity was that it was really in the shadow. So the details are so-so.
5D4, 100-400L II + 1.4 TC @560 mm, f/8, 1/200, ISO3200
Detail pic is a 1:1 crop of the first pic, ISO 3200 is killing a lot of detail
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Nope!!!! It definitely looks for a flying frog - they are very common in the winter
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From what you are saying and what I see - it looks like it was really cold and you were shivering (unfortunately the camera was shivering too...). If ISO 3200 is eating that much of detail after de-noising -change the de-noising program you use (but I don't really think it's the problem!). Some 100ml of smooth Cognac may solve the problem for short time
. If you think you need more than 100ml - better go home and take a rest (200ml
?!).
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I have been revisiting some old trips I took with a 7D and a very soft EF 100-400mm, and seeing what modern software can do. One most memorable hike was to see a Harpy Eagle, the strongest of all eagles, in the Pantanal. I managed to sharpen the images of a flight from one tree to another and make to me a happy memory.
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