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Owls own so hard. They're amazingly photogenic. The Toledo Zoo has a fantastic aviary building with a couple open rooms with the birds flying around. I'm new to most of this but I think they came out alright. I'm terrible at remembering these guys' names, sorry    This was some raptor (red tailed hawk, maybe?) shot though a pretty fine cage, I think it came out alright.  Spectacled Owl. Very unique birds.
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less_than_one posted:
I'm scared now.  Wonderfully sharp focus here.TomR posted:Birds! These are fantastic. I love the look of the water. Has that gone through a lot of post? 
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Thanks toppro, there is no post on the water. I just run them through lightroom and do some minor adjustments to contrast/brightness. Maybe some fill light, nothing major. I haven't mucked with the colours or anything like that.
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Bahama.Llama posted:1. Yes. Great Blue Heron. Looks like you're doing a pretty good job at keeping the processing neutral, without going too over board with the colours. Nice burst of colour on the blackbird shot and really like the complimentary blue - rusty pipe combo in the swallow shot. I would probably add a bit of contrast with curves on the last shot and pull up the highlights perhaps. What do you guys use to ID the birds? I've found the RSPB site pretty useful: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdidentifier/form.asp less_than_one fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jun 1, 2010 |
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toppro posted:Pelican (I think) at the coast this weekend. A type of heron, I believe.
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William T. Hornaday posted:A type of heron, I believe. Looks like a great blue heron but the angle is a bit strange.
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Dread Head posted:Looks like a great blue heron but the angle is a bit strange. Ah, so that's what he is. Thanks. He is perching directly above me so that's what's up with the angle.
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Fists Up posted:I took this recently. Forgot what bird it is...Any help? Anyone in the Richmond, VA area needs to get his or her rear end to Pipeline Trail, downtown along the river. There are around 40 great blue heron nests in a concentrated area, and you can hardly turn around without bumping into them. They're everywhere. When you see four or five of them in the air at once they looking like loving pterodactyls, it's absolutely amazing. Took these with a rented 70-200/2.8 IS. In that first picture the white haze at head-level is gnats.    
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Went salmon fishing in BC and taking pictures of the wild eagles turned out to be the highlight of the trip for me:
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InternetJunky posted:Went salmon fishing in BC and taking pictures of the wild eagles turned out to be the highlight of the trip for me: Both of these shots are AWESOME. Nice work.
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Saker falcon, from a raptor demo at the local renaissance festival. Totally cheating, as he wasn't going anywhere being tied to his handler's gauntlet. The gunk on his beak is residue from a snack.  edit: Kestrel, taken same day as above  Unknown species, aviary at the NC Zoo  (I hate this composition the more I look at it, it's cropped such because the bird's rear end/background looked bad. But this looks bad too soo...) the yeti fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jun 6, 2010 |
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Jun 6, 2010 02:50
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More killdeers, went back to see if the eggs had hatched (they had not) Also saw a mute swan there. 
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 Not sure what bird this is exactly. Quick identification attempt suggested chaffinch, but it looks too tall and slender. scottch fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jun 7, 2010 |
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scottch posted:
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Yea, it's a starling. My least favorite birds in the world. Drive native species out of there habitat like crazy, unfortunately. We finally had some decent weather yesterday so I drove up to the mountains with the intention of getting some landscapes, but I happened upon this bird which I'd never seen before. Sadly, this was the best shot I was able to get.  edit: It appears to be a Wilson's Warbler.
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Thanks guys, not sure why starling hadn't occurred to me.
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I know these shots aren't anything fancy, but I'm posting them because they're the first couple of shots I've taken with my new 600mm. All are uncropped   For reference, here's where I was shooting from:  I love this lens. 
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Finally gotten round to editing some old photos: 
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drat... is it just me or are these pictures getting better and better? Every single Killdeer picture I've seen in here makes me jealous and hell. I'll have contributions later... but I just wanted to get that out there.
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A few more eagle shots from last week. I could use some tips for post-processing on these...I first do some NR on the background only by first removing the bird via photoshop's Filter->Extract feature (which takes ages to properly outline the bird), but then if I want to do separate processing on the bird I have to go back in and reselect the bird all over again. I'm sure there must be an easier way to do this given that I already have a layer with everything but the bird. (Wish I could figure out how to clean this one up a bit)    
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Been working through some photos of Terns I took on holiday a couple of weeks back:   (This photo brought to you by the crop, sharpen and pray school of bird photoraphy) And here's a photo of the fucker who turned up and scared them all off:   And finally a couple of random other shots:  
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Holistic Detective posted:Been working through some photos of Terns I took on holiday a couple of weeks back: Those tern shots are fantastic. Those little guys are so fast I'm impressed you caught such great action.
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whaam posted:Those tern shots are fantastic. Those little guys are so fast I'm impressed you caught such great action. Thanks , I'd like to claim it was down to skill but there were so many of the little bastards that it was more or less a matter of setting the camera to burst mode and shooting wildly. Today I decided to see what I could get by just sitting on the grass in my garden with a cold drink and waiting:    Going out Barn Owl hunting this evening so I'll hopefully have a few more pictures to upload later, wish me luck. edit: Well it only took an hour of sitting under a hedge in a ditch but I managed to get a photo:   I guess the patience of owls outstrips my iso range. Holistic Detective fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jun 14, 2010 |
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Few backyard shots with my new 600mm:  This thing is a beast for hand holding.
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Took the new Nikkor 70-300mm out for my first focused attempt at photographing birds: 
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InternetJunky posted:A few more eagle shots from last week. I could use some tips for post-processing on these...I first do some NR on the background only by first removing the bird via photoshop's Filter->Extract feature (which takes ages to properly outline the bird), but then if I want to do separate processing on the bird I have to go back in and reselect the bird all over again. I'm sure there must be an easier way to do this given that I already have a layer with everything but the bird. From a while back, but Lightroom 3 does a miraculous job with NR. This is 30 seconds of futzing with the sliders, no masking or whatnot involved. It would be even more effective on a full-resolution version.  [e] and don't use extract. draw the selection between foreground and background, duplicate the base layer, and with the selection active, create a layer mask for the top layer. Then just apply background stuff to the bottom layer and bird stuff to the top one. Done. orange lime fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jun 20, 2010 |
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orange lime posted:From a while back, but Lightroom 3 does a miraculous job with NR. This is 30 seconds of futzing with the sliders, no masking or whatnot involved. It would be even more effective on a full-resolution version As to your second paragraph, I'm not sure what you mean by "draw the selection". I thought that's what I was doing with the extract feature. Is there an easier way? Here's a male and female Mountain Bluebird to keep the pictures rolling in this thread:  
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InternetJunky posted:This is a very nice improvement over your previous work, the border is much nicer now.
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Dread Head posted:Really liking this one. Found some baby Partridges whilst out on a walk today:  One of them got a little stuck:   
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Holistic Detective posted:i don't think there's any way that photo can improve.
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Tongsy posted:i don't think there's any way that photo can improve. Here's a jet-propelled coot to keep this thread moving: 
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Managed to escape for a spell today: Crows (or is it ravens, how can you tell?) strutting about near a bunch of eating humans, eyeing up leftovers.  Hunger - these little bastards have huge feet - which you can't see here - loving mutants...  - Won't you join us for some tea, small wading bird? - Don't mind if I do. less_than_one fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jun 25, 2010 |
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