Show your Bird Portraits

[Levina de Ruijter]

Great crested grebe.
It was late in the day and a low sun easily gets the whites on these birds overexposed. So I exposed for the whites and hoped for the best. I brightened the crest a bit in post so it stood out some against the background and applied some sharpening.

 

[Click]

Beautiful shot!

 

[EricN]

it never fails if I switch to a macro lens something good will appear that would be better with 100-400mm. This is the best shot of this woodpecker, mostly it was either too high or behind foliage. By the time is switched lenses, I had know idea where it went off to. This frequently happens with deer too .

 

[EricN]

Great crested grebe.
It was late in the day and a low sun easily gets the whites on these birds overexposed. So I exposed for the whites and hoped for the best. I brightened the crest a bit in post so it stood out some against the background and applied some sharpening.
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Majestic!

 

[ISv]

Great pic, with even the fish facing the camera.

Off course - the Kingfisher is there for better background !

 

[ISv]

Great crested grebe.
It was late in the day and a low sun easily gets the whites on these birds overexposed. So I exposed for the whites and hoped for the best. I brightened the crest a bit in post so it stood out some against the background and applied some sharpening.
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Another great shot!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Thank you all for the kind comments (and the likes)!

 

[cooldood]

Beautiful shot!

I second this

 

[birdman916]

American Golden Plover
Canon R5
Canon 100-500
F 7.1
ISO 4000
1/500

 

[Click]

Very nice shot, birdman916.

 

[birdman916]

Very nice shot, birdman916.

Thank you!!! I feel like I’m pushing the limits of the 100-500 lens. I’m actually very close to lowering my FICO score and buying a 600f4! Hope the images even get better at a higher clip

 

[kypr.eos]

Today I was going through some older pictures and found this one of a common blackbird, which is one of my favorite photos of the last years. Taken with the 750D (aka t6i, Kiss X8i) and the EF-S 55-250mm IS STM.

 

[Click]

Lovely shot. Nicely done, kypr.eos.

 

[EricN]

Thank you!!! I feel like I’m pushing the limits of the 100-500 lens. I’m actually very close to lowering my FICO score and buying a 600f4! Hope the images even get better at a higher clip

It was lovely! After you pay back the debt, your score will be higher!

 

[cooldood]

Today I was going through some older pictures and found this one of a common blackbird, which is one of my favorite photos of the last years. Taken with the 750D (aka t6i, Kiss X8i) and the EF-S 55-250mm IS STM.

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Framed perfectly

 

[koenkooi]

On the last day of our vacation I noticed this outside the kids bedroom window;

I managed to get to where it flew of to:

It turns out to be a Merlin, which are fairly rare here. I never thought I would get this close to a wild falcon, nor that my kids would be that close as well. I’m going to gloss over having a pane of glass in front of the bird

iPhone for the first pic, R5+100-500L for the second one, with a large scoop of DxO denoising.

 

[kypr.eos]

Framed perfectly

Thank you. I actually didn’t have much choice in framing the shot, as any slightly different position meant that I would either have a very dark background (where the bird wouldn’t really stand out) or I would have had other branches in front.

 

[becceric]

Thank you!!! I feel like I’m pushing the limits of the 100-500 lens. I’m actually very close to lowering my FICO score and buying a 600f4! Hope the images even get better at a higher clip

Do it! I love using my EF 600mm f/4 III, and my wife hasn’t filed divorce papers over it.

 

[ISv]

On the last day of our vacation I noticed this outside the kids bedroom window;
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I managed to get to where it flew of to:
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It turns out to be a Merlin, which are fairly rare here. I never thought I would get this close to a wild falcon, nor that my kids would be that close as well. I’m going to gloss over having a pane of glass in front of the bird

iPhone for the first pic, R5+100-500L for the second one, with a large scoop of DxO denoising.

Great memory from your vacation!
And I like the first photo better: I don't mean IQ! It's just a cute, very wet raptor looking at a dry place despite the obvious human presence!
And for the jock: your only mistake? You didn't left that window open (despite of the rain!)!

 

[ISv]

Framed perfectly

And that background!