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TheCaptain posted:At 250mm this is about as close as I could get. It was 22 degrees out yesterday but that didn't stop me from laying on the ground trying to get some shots of a rather brave song sparrow. 
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It's no Costa Rica, but the zoo's a great place to find hummingbirds!
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Call me crazy or sheltered... but I've never actually seen a humming bird with its beak open. Bravo.
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Jan 5, 2010 03:11
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Birds, birds, birds! I love Birds! Any ID on this one? I believe it's some kind of heron.  Some Muscovy ducks:  
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Sup Bird Photographing goons!  I've been dabbling in all kinds of photography for about a year and a half now, including birds. The best tele lens I can afford is the Nikon 55-200mm VR. Not a particularly good lens for birding, I know, but I'm poor. SoWestern Scrub Jay  A Hummingbird nurses its baby.  He later tried to fly, and failed... Cute, but kinda sad...  Some sort of sparrow on a rock looking at the landscape.  Common Raven in flight  Some shots from San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park, which I know is kind of cheating, since you can get a lot closer and the birds don't spook as easily, but I still like em. It's good practice for every thing else but stalking them though (framing, focus, etc) Demoiselle Crane  Western Burrowing Owl  White Breasted Cormorants  I shoot a D60 so I'm kind of limited in the lenses I can use while maintaining a level of ease of use. I have some MF glass, but the combination of no metering and my suckage w/ manual focusing means that my good shot yield is abysmal. Does anyone else shoot with the 55-200mm VR or similar? I was considering checking out the Sigma 70-300mm APO, also because of its 1:2 macro focusing ability, but I don't know if it's really worth it.
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TheCaptain posted:Birds, birds, birds! I love Birds! Looks like an anhinga.
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Nice, scene, but you look like you missed focus. And faster shutter speeds for birds.
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GrAviTy84 posted:I shoot a D60 so I'm kind of limited in the lenses I can use while maintaining a level of ease of use. I have some MF glass, but the combination of no metering and my suckage w/ manual focusing means that my good shot yield is abysmal. Does anyone else shoot with the 55-200mm VR or similar? I was considering checking out the Sigma 70-300mm APO, also because of its 1:2 macro focusing ability, but I don't know if it's really worth it. I can't give you specific advice since I'm a Canon shooter, but I have a 200mm prime and while it's a nice range some of the time, it still felt lacking when birding and I wasn't really happy until I picked up a 2x extender to get to 400mm. Hopefully someone has experience with that 70-300 and can say something about quality or mention something else. In the meantime here's a link to a bunch of samples with that 70-300 lens, and you can kind of get an idea what to expect at least. Currently page 2 has some bird shots, although it looks like it's mainly the Canon version. http://www.pixel-peeper.com/lenses/?lens=250 -- I've posted these elsewhere but forgot to include them here, so here ya go. Backyard bonanza continues!  
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Jan 8, 2010 00:02
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A fat little sparrow back home on holidays. An "american dipper" (I had never heard of them before) 
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Jan 8, 2010 01:18
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I had a cardinal that was more than happy to pose for me today:  
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This post isn't exactly a bird picture, but I noticed a lot more flickr hits than normal today and was excited to see that a popular travel blog had picked my puffin picture of a couple of pages back for their photo of the day. http://www.gadling.com/2010/01/09/photo-of-the-day-01-09-09/ Just wanted to share with my goon bird photo buds, since I probably wouldn't have submitted it without the encouragement from this thread. 
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SKULE123 posted:This post isn't exactly a bird picture, but I noticed a lot more flickr hits than normal today and was excited to see that a popular travel blog had picked my puffin picture of a couple of pages back for their photo of the day. I subscribe to that blog and I was 98% sure that was a goons photo, nice work. I have actually been featured on their a few times
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SKULE123 posted:This post isn't exactly a bird picture, but I noticed a lot more flickr hits than normal today and was excited to see that a popular travel blog had picked my puffin picture of a couple of pages back for their photo of the day. Congratulations, that's an awesome photo!
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Jan 10, 2010 14:43
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European Starling in flight: Quick little bastards.
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diarrhea for girls posted:European Starling in flight: Very nice! As far as I know these things are tiny, must have been insanely hard to capture it, decent light too, just creeping in on his face.
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A B&W bird... Was underexposed (Aperture prio... white bird... not gonna happen bro) so i pushed it a ton, realized it looked like poo poo and thought hey im gonna make this B&W and pretend that its shot on film
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Cyberbob posted:Australia?
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fenner posted:Very nice! As far as I know these things are tiny, must have been insanely hard to capture it, decent light too, just creeping in on his face. Thanks fenner! Yeah those things are pretty tiny, it was flying directly at me in a short space and with pure luck the AF managed to follow it. I would have gotten a couple better shots but unfortunately I had my lens focus limit switch on 3.5m instead of 1.5m, aghhh I like your shot! White birds are a pain to shoot, for sure. Yours looks good in B&W, and good detail on the beak. I also really like how it's facing with the slight downwards look.
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Cyberbob posted:I love the color contrast between the bird and the tree. Very nice. I got my Sony A330 in December and today was the first day I used my 55-200. I went to what could be considered the zoo and took some bird photos. I liked the way these came out.  
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Here's a robin I saw on a walk a couple of days ago. Robins are pretty fearless, so I was able to get very close - this was taken with a 300mm lens on a full-frame camera and is uncropped. I should have used a much higher shutter speed to get a sharper shot, but oh well, I'm satisfied. Edit - argh, uploaded the wrong version. Ignore the one at the bottom, you can't delete an attached image once it's on there.  To make up for it, I'll add a bonus shot of a sparrow in Mexico a couple of months ago. Like the Robin above, they don't mind people. These little guys hang out near resorts and raid tables for crumbs after people leave. This one was on top of the bush, waiting for my girlfriend and I to leave, so I grabbed my camera. This spooked him and he flew off as I was taking the shot with my Minolta 28-75mm f/2.8 - in other words, this shot was all luck.  VVV ignore this one, once an image is attached to the post it's there for good VVV Bob Socko fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jan 22, 2010 |
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Stitched/merged together three shots of this crow, since all I had on me at the time was my 400mm setup and I was way close because it was chowing down on some dead rabbit and it felt no fear.  Came out pretty well though!
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Some ISO 1600 birds with front focusing lens.    e: I strive for the quality of your bird photos diarrhea for girls, my birds only look good on small size... I will just blame my lens for now. fenner fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Jan 25, 2010 |
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Australia? Yea, Gold Coast
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Cyberbob posted:drat, this owns.
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 That's my first shot with the 500mm mirror lens I bought. It was only $130. The lens CAN produce nice photos, if conditions are ideal. I've gotten a bit better with it since. I need to find more interesting birds, too. Haha.
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fenner posted:
Thanks fenner! They look great to me and I'm loving the variety you've got going on! That one titled "Blue Hat" is awesome! That bright blue is amazing looking. I can't think of any birds around here that share that color. Great angle on that Crimson Rosella too!
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 Honolulu Zoo, this guy was just chilling on a hedge.  Same place, but this guy was following me around screaming like a maniac.
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A word of caution to anyone trying to get close up with a swan, don't use your finger as bait! All I had when I took this was an old canon powershot with craptastic zoom, so I had to get in really close. I put my hand out to get the swan's attention and it mistook me for bread and bit my goddamn fingers.  Do birds in zoo's count?    Or how about rear end in a top hat birds? 
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Swans freak me out, they have no fear after months of being fed by hand and they'll get right up in your face about it. Haha. Great shots, Abbeh! --- It's snowing here and that's my favorite time to go birding, here's a couple more cardinal-in-the-snow shots and a song sparrow that has turned my motorcycle shed into a giant bird house for the time being.   
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When I was in Peru I often found that my 70-200 was enough. A lot of birds would let you get real close if you were careful enough not to startle them. Anhima cornuta:  A pelican of some sort:  Would appreciate an ID on any of these:   
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I'm envious you were in Peru! That place is a birder's theme park. They've got more species of birds there than North America and Europe combined. Unfortunately I can't help you with the IDs, but I do like your photos! -- This Northern Cardinal is quite used to me by now. I just wish I could get friendly with the jays.  
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Pale-winged trumpeter. MrBlandAverage posted:Some kind of curassow, maybe wattled? The only reason I could even take a guess was that related birds appear in Andrew Zuckerman's book Bird, which I just got for my birthday. Alas, I have no clue about your other bird.
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tiercel posted:The only reason I could even take a guess was that related birds appear in Andrew Zuckerman's book Bird, which I just got for my birthday. I keep meaning to pick that up, it looks fantastic. The shots I've seen that he has shared online are stunning. --- Just another sparrow today:  I was | | close to getting some nice Pileated Woodpecker shots (those things are huge!) but while I was moving extra slowly to get into position it took off. Argh, I hate that. I'm going to have to go all out and deck myself out in camo next time, haha.
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diarrhea for girls posted:
Looking forward to those. Here is my "this close" picture. I walked half a mile into the sun to get a picture of this bird, and just as I rounded his tree, he took off. I took three pictures, this one, and two of his back.  10 feet and 1 minute more is all I needed. Didn't get it.
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Slo-Tek posted:Looking forward to those. Here is my "this close" picture. I walked half a mile into the sun to get a picture of this bird, and just as I rounded his tree, he took off. I took three pictures, this one, and two of his back. Aww man, that sucks! Nothing is worse than watching your subject fly away in the viewfinder. Leaves you feeling so empty inside. That's still a nice photo, but I can imagine the shot you were after and man.  I hope you've gotten a second chance since then!
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