Bill, the hummingbird is fantastic. I've always wanted to get some shots of them.
p.s. Thanks for your comments and critiqueall.
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Bill, the hummingbird is fantastic. I've always wanted to get some shots of them.
p.s. Thanks for your comments and critiqueall.
Wow! Cool shot of the hummingbird.
Thanks for the kind words Dave and jusap.....so here's 2 more Ruby throated HBs captured on the same shoot.
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<span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"]<span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"]Archilochus colubris female
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...femaleRTHB.jpg
Regards
Bill
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Caught this bugger in a tree in my backyard this afternoon.
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Canon Rebel XT 350D, 1/800 second, F/8, 300mm, ISO400
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Canon Rebel XT 350D, 1/400 second, F/8, 300mm, ISO400
OK...It's my turn. I've been really lame getting my stuff posted.
Every photo seems to havea story oris a part of one. The three photos I'm posting happened within 1/2 hour of one another and are a result of me braking one of my cardinal rules of photography. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Anyway, to make my very lenghthy story a lettle less so, It all began when I was three. No, sorry, the night before I took these shots. We'd just come back from a beautiful afternoon/evening at Harbor Towne on Hilton Head Island.As usual, when things got settled,I downloadedthe latest images from my CF card onto mylaptop. My hard and fast rule "always" isto immediately put the CF card back into the camera after downloading the files.I'm anal about doing this. Something happened and I put the card on top of my camera inside the top flap of my SlingShot bag instead of back into the camera.
The next morning, I hit the beach before sunrise to attempt another series of ocean sunrise photos. It was absolutely perfect!! Just a few wispy clouds to give the sky a little character. I had not seen a sunrise like this since we had arrived. I had remembered to bring my remote release for the first time and I was so together that I had walked down to the beach with the camera and tripod already together so there was no reason to bring my camera bag. So, there I am shooting away for about 15 minutes when I look down at the back of my camera and see the little words in white: NO CF CARD
Well. What do you do? There is no undelete or do-over. I was pretty bumbed.
Ashamed and feeling like a smuck, I walked off the beach and up to the trunk of my car, opened my camera bag and there was my CF card, lying in the bottomof my bagwhere my camera normally resides.
I start driving through ShipYard back to our condo when I realize that I hadn't tried taking photos of egrets around the clubhouse ponds. What the heck, the light is perfect, the fam's still sleeping and I've got time to kill.
#1 White Egret Canon 5D, EF 70-200 f2.8 nonIS on tripod @200mm, ISO 100, f2.8, 1/60
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...949_PS-800.jpg
While I'm photographing this lovely bird a big blue egret flies right by and lands about 150 ft behind me on the edge of a pond on the other side of the road. As I'm turning around I catch a glimpse of something in the water about 8' from my position on the edge of the bank. It did not move.....thank goodness! I'm glad it wasn't a crock! The eyes to the nose were about the length of my foot. (11") It wasone large gator!
#2 Alligator Canon 5D, EF 70-200 f2.8 nonIS on tripod @200mm, ISO 100, f2.8, 1/60
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...952_PS-800.jpg
After that shot I made for the big blue. He/She was a joy to shoot. It walked right up and posed!
#3 Blue Egret Canon 5D, EF 70-200 f2.8 nonIS handheld @180mm, ISO 400, f2.8, 1/640
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...997_PS-800.jpg
Sometimes, things happen for a reason.
Chuck
Chuck,
Serendipity is a wonderful thing, n'est ce pas?
Bill, the 1st hummer shot is definitely a keeper, good composition the tounge sticking out really enhances the image. I'd clone out theO.O.F leaf in the U.R.C. The 2nd shot can be sharper and the O.O.Fbrach/leaf is bothering me. Good luck next time.
EdN, I think it's always a thrill to see a bald eagle. Great opportunity you have there, it's absolutely cool to have nesting bald eagle. Looks like the images were shot in harsh lighting andheavily cropped, shooting in better lighting allows you to crop a bit more without losing details. Good luck next time. I like the last image, mommy and daddy are together.
Garrett, if I have a backyard with a lot of birds, I'd set up perches to photograph them. The branches in both theB.G andF.G are very cluttered, it takes a way the attention to the bird.
Chuck, nice poses on the egret and heron. I like the tight crop for the GBH, I'd crop out the O-O-F tree trunk in the B.G of the GWE
Please let me know if my any of my commentis wrong, thanks[:)]
Here's mine this time...
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I was toolate to capture this skimmer banking with both wings spreaded out. Taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in late afternoon.
40D & 400 f/5.6L, f/6.3, 1/3200, ISO 320. Please excuse the washed out fish [:D]
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Thanks for viewing everyone.
Nate,
Wow, quite a beak on that one. Great action shot.
Thanks Nate,
I would of just posted the GBH (best nature shots) but the other two told a nice story. The original on the GWE was 2:3 portrait and you can see the golf course in the back ground. The tree was better reflected in the water and was left. I guess it would still be possible to crop lanscape at 2912 wide at a 4:5 aspect.
Here's the original as shot. That's as close as I could get @ 200mm on FF 5D.
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...949_PS-640.jpg
Please show me what you mean. I'm curious to see how you would handle this. I respect your opinion. Your welcome to screeen capture, alter and repost this photo. Don't worry about the copyright.
Chuck
Hi chuck, sorry I took a while to reply.
I would crop the tree trunks out completely in the original post to imphasize on the bird more.
I would crop about an inch in the bottom of the 2nd version because I feel that thatspace doesn't do much to the image. I like the tree and the golf court in the background, it tells a story, wildlife and men coexist [:)]
Cool Points of View!!
Thanks,
Chuck
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Another inflight shot, nothing special, do you think multiple horizon lines distracting?
Thanks for viewing.
Larger version http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9472057&size=lg
40D & 400 f/5.6L, f/7.1, 1/2500, ISO 250, Manual Exposure.
Great shot as always, I knew it was yours just by seeing the picture itself.
Nate, is the 400mm for sale? [:P]
Nate......I'm missing what U.R.C. is standing for? [*-)] & [:$]
thanks for the cc
Bill
Nate,
I like the horizontal lines. The blue top and bottom act as a frame. The distracting thing if any are the specular circles. What are those from?
Awesome shot, as usual.
Chuck
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LOL... those are the aperture blades I believe.
Say cheese! (or chicken).
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Wow nice! What camera/lens setup? Exif data?
Is that a crop or the original image?
Yeah it's a crop. The lens didn't reach far enough for me to do it without cropping.
Data: 1/3200 F4 75mm ISO 1600 (because I just walked out of a much darker area and I didnt change my settings: oops).
Cam: 5D MkII. Glass: 24-105.
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Originally Posted by Madison
Then why just 75mm?
Thanks guys for the comments
Bill, I was just too lazy to right everything out, U.R.C stands forupper right corner, sorry.
Oren, no, that lens is not for sale, I had to wait over 2 months just to get it.[:)]
Chuck,I believe the specularcircles are O.O.F terns in the distance.
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Because the 105mm shot didn't work out. I took a few test shots and this one was the only one that I could work with.
I'll be going back for a better shot (and proper settings) later this week. I was experimenting.
PS: The next photo (see below) is not really a nature shot since the monkey is dead but I wanted to include it anyway. I had a 'sketch day' today at the National History Museum (dead animals) and at the croc pond (living animals that might as well be dead because they hardly move). I will be going back to both places to re shoot these images properly because they did not work out the way I wanted them to but I did both in a few minutes running around instead of taking my time. And when something works, but not quite the way I want it to, I go back and finish the job properly. Anyway: here is the sketch:
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I've been lurking on this forum for a while so I thought this is as good a time as ever to introduce my self. My name is Vu, I'm an engineer living in the Bay Area. I wanted to give photography a try a year or so ago and have been shooting since. This is one hell of an addiction now.
Anyhow, here's a couple of shots that I thought would be fitting for this thread. These 2 shots were taken with my 40D, 70-200mm F4L IS, and Kenko extension tubes. I don't have the EXIF info with me atm but will post them when I get home.
Please feel free to critique and comments. Looking forward to interact with the rest of you on this forum. Have a great day.
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One of my very first pics.
In #2
i shouldnt have kept the sun bang in the center. i was just too excited to hold a camera for the first time :D
Hi Vu, welcome to The-Digital-Picture Forum! Nice shots, I think they could be sharper, looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Hi Daya, welcome to The-Digital-Picture Forum too! I like how you cropped/composed the first shot, good way to show off the cloud. I like the second's color, you can try to level the horizon, it's tilted.
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Nice one, Keith.
Multiple exposures? How long did you leave the shutter open to get the lightning?
Thank you Sinh Nhut Nguyen :o)
Thank you for your comments.
In the 2nd pic the horizon got tilted because of the camera click i think :D i will try to correct it. I am a BIG ZERO at pp and have only DPP to perform with. Havent read about tilt correction via DPP in its manual.
Afraid you can't correct tilted horizons in DPP[:(]
If you're like me and often end up with tilted skylines, this a real pain (are you listening Canon software design dept.?)
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One exposure. 3 Second exposure. The lightning was really easy to time that night, it would flash and then a bolts would follow.
Daya,
Any version of Photoshop along with the corresponding edition of Scott Kelby's "the Photoshop CS# book" books would help alot. They're so easy to learn from. Helped me get alot more out of my version of CS1 lol :)
Keith,
Beautiful! I love lightning shots.
Thank you Rodger. I will try to grab a copy and get started once i get PS installed.
I only suspected that because of all the detail in dim stuff... I would have thought that would have totally burned out the lightning... not that the bolt itself isn't maxed out, that's fine obviously, but you got those little tendrils coming off it. Nice.
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Just like a true craftsman, to do what I *wish* I could do, then say it was easy [:)]
Thanks Jon and Roger
I wish I could claim craftsmanship but it was literally like shooting fish in a barrel that night. That bolt was so massive it just lit up the area and froze everything. The rocks in the foreground are lit by a near by street light.
It was literally my first try at shooting lightning. I was actually hoping to catch it behind the bridge.
No comments, I guess nobody is interested.
No comments, I guess nobody is interested.
Thanks Sinh. I was going for that bit of dreamy look. But you might be right. Everytime I look at those images now I wished I had focused in a bit more. Looking forward to posting on here more often.
I got a chance to captured this when I was at a friend's house. Interesting flower. I have no idea what it's called though. Anybody?
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Canon XSI, Sigma18-250 OS HSM, ISO 100, f/9, 1/100s