Joel, You make the most common birds look like works of art----Excellent as usual---stop, no, thats not true---there is a line just to the right of the bird----ooops, thats just a smudge on my monitor---I was right the first time.
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Joel, You make the most common birds look like works of art----Excellent as usual---stop, no, thats not true---there is a line just to the right of the bird----ooops, thats just a smudge on my monitor---I was right the first time.
Denise, Love the solitary feel of the cormorant shot---nice job.
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Excuse the blank post.....my office PC is quirky....I was thanking Bob for the nice comments but the text vanished when I hit the post button.
Thanks Bob for the kind words, I too am amazed at the beauty of little song birds when I get to see a close up detailed image.
I went for a walk down the river this afternoon to test out my new Samyang 35/1.4 vs 15-85, took my 70-300L along for the ride, then ended up taking more shots of these Rainbow Lorikeets.
Finally nailed one as good as Steve's a few pages back, 70-300L, f/6.3, 1/250, CPL, and setting-sun straight behind me, just on the border of the sweet yellow-light...
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Gorgeous Lorikeet, I think you could make it even stronger by cropping some off the top so the bird isn
This is a shot from yesterday, it was unfortunately underexposed enough that I could not get great detail in the feathers so I tried some filters and came up with this
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That is really a great shot Joel, I love the post----It really does give it the oil painting feel. Beautiful work.
Dr. C. This is a very nice shot. I can never get enough of these birds.