Beautiful set, Bob!! We have absolutely no snow in SE Wisconsin yet! I'm not a huge fan of snow but alittle right now for the holidays would be nice and it sure looks beautiful in photos!
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Beautiful set, Bob!! We have absolutely no snow in SE Wisconsin yet! I'm not a huge fan of snow but alittle right now for the holidays would be nice and it sure looks beautiful in photos!
Nice images Bob, can't wait.....see if you can arrange some good weather:D
Great in flight image Denise really awesome detail and beautiful background.
Still looking forward to the trip---Let me see what I can do about the weather:cool:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joel Eade
@Denise, Beautiful shot. By the way, I really like the frame treatments you have been putting on your images. What software are you using?
Thanks, Bob ...and Joel! The frame comes in Photoshop CS5 as a Preset Action! I haven't spent much time yet on pre-recording any of my own so I am clueless at this point on how to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob williams
First time posting with tapatalk. Didn't work as I was expecting. Any other users find a way to post the actual image in the post?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocco
Edit: showed the picture after a refresh. :rolleyes:
A day NOT for birding: Hopefully, I am not the only absent minded birder out there . So let me tell you my story.
The day after Christmas, not much going on,
My wife and I packed up just after dawn.
The roads were clear and the snow was deep
I thought this could offer some photos to keep
After 70 miles of ice and snow
The man at the gate said "sorry, were closed"
Disappointed I was, no entry today
after all of this driving and nowhere to play
I soon realized with all of my load
I could pull over and shoot from the road
So I slowed my truck and pulled to the right
When I saw a Redtail Hawk in perfect light
I quietly exited so not to disturb
pulled out my tripod and walked to the curb
I opened my box and to my dismay
I realized the camera, in my house still lay
Not all is lost as I thought to my self
my back-up is here and not on the shelf
So I mounted my lens and prepared to do battle
with this bird in the tree I have yet to rattle
As I held my camera with the settings just right
I aimed at the bird in the perfect light
with the view before me, I was enthralled
until I realized... NO CARD INSTALLED
I have lots of cards and memory and such
but not in this box and not in this truck.
so I packed up my stuff and headed to town
with nothing to show but a grimacing frown
My wife kept quiet so no to offend
but I could see her smirking deep within.
I knew my loving wife couldn't leave it alone
She called all her friends on the long ride home
So take it from me, these lessons learned
take all your gear but leave your wife at home.
ROFL!!! Sorry Bob, I am not laughing at your misfortune but at the wonderfully written poem and the fact that I can so relate! I do not know howing many times I have gotten into my truck with all of my gear (or so I thought) just to have to get back out again and go back into the house because I forgot either my camera, my battery or something and to have to endure my daughters laughter!! In fact, I met another TDP member at a site only to realize I forgot the battery for my camera ...thank goodness he had one to lend me for a few hours of shooting!
Denise
Glad you liked it Denise. Since I didn't have any post processing to do, I thought I would use that time for other artistic endeavors----well, sorta.
:)
Poor poor Bob.
Although, if it were me in that situation, my missus would be the one writing the poetry (seeing as she's the poet anyway).
Will a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets cheer you up?
On the balcony at my cousin's place for xmas eve bbq in 37 degree heat, these guys can eat out of your hand if you're lucky but they still didn't like the idea of a lens in their face.
7D, 70-300L @ 146mm f/5 iso500, trying out my new Hoya HRT CPL (although there wasn't much sun to make it useful).
Tried something different this time, processed to 'Neutral' with sharpness 4 and NR 1/1, then rotated in GIMP to get better cropping (the bird feeder looks ugly), copy/pasted in a bit at the top right hand corner, smudged it all around, then fuzzy-selected the background for a 2pixel guassian-blur for noise reduction twice (that way, the birds are 'noisier', but you can see more detail in the feathers).
(and then this site is going to blur it up a bit when I upload it, so maybe i'll find a flickr account to use and edit this later)
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<edit, maybe uploading jpg instead of png would have helped to start with>
OK, me trying smugmug linkage:
http://croubie.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-fTfg8m4-L.jpg
And i'll try another shot, with the Pentacon Six-mount Zeiss Sonnar 180/2.8 @ f/2.8 or so, 1/400s iso400. Background blurs so much nicer with this lens, although it does need a bit more contrast/sat in pp.
Again with the Neutral, 0 NR, 4 sharpening, and fuzzy-select 2pixel gausian blur twice to de-noise the background, I think I might stick with this method for a while...
http://croubie.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-ZmB7XLX-L.jpg
(trying an 1800x1200 photo this time, normally the ones I upload here are 900x600)
Thanks Dr. C, and Yes it did---I love these birdsQuote:
Poor poor Bob
Wow, awesome prose....an all too familiar theme, it is very difficult to keep up with all the small pieces of stuff required for digital photography. This has probably happened to all of us at some time or another.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob williams
I was in my blind a few days ago and a Red Tailed Hawk landed in a tree about 60 yards away but in a perfect spot. The first time I have ever seen one land in the back yard! I was set up with my 500 and the 1.4 converter but I had the focus range set to the middle setting....of course I couldn't auto focus at 60 yds...so I quickly manually focused to get it close then I reached to change the focus range switch but turned off the Auto focus instead:mad:....so I got a perfectly posed Red Tailed Hawk in good light that is blurry.
Last year I went to my first polo match and was really excited to take photos. Those horses are amazing, and stopping them in action is kind of like stopping a lineman in action on a football field. I then proceeded to shoot the whole afternoon at ISO 2500, so I have some nice grainy shots that I could never enlarge! I even remember wondering how there could be so much light that the shutter was firing at 1/4000 and even 1/8000. Duh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joel Eade
Bird merge. This is a merger of 24 images shot a few seconds apart. Lots of bird activity at the feeder today. One thing that struck me when I was merging these images was how the birds seem to have favorite roosting spots. The areas that have birds in this image actually had lots of birds that would have overlapped, whereas the areas with no birds simply had no birds landing there for the whole span of time.
http://bimmermail.com/critters/bird-merge01-sm.jpg
Clever idea, I like it!!
Here are some shot's I took today with my new Nikon 55-300 DX VR.
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Went out to look for eagles yesterday. Saw about 22, mostly juveniles. I wasn't really planning on shooting, so I only took my 70-200 with me. This is all I shot:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6...ee4932b3_z.jpg
I like the framing....giving the bird space to "fly into".
The sky is so intensely blue, did you do something in post processing to achieve this?
Nah, I had a B&W Kaseman circular polarizer on. Super bright day, so I wasn't too worried about shutter speeds.
7D 700mm5.6
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1949/img2366xf.jpg
7D 400mm5.6
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/728/img2175mt.jpg
two recent shots, thanks for viewing!
Very nice shotsQuote:
Originally Posted by JJphoto
700mm??? What's up with that?
You shoot a lot with a 4000mm/5.6. Is this a typo, or do you have a 700mm lens?
JJ---That is one ragged looking hawk---but great photo-----Love the pelican shot-it's my Fav---nice job
Conropl and Bob, thanks for the kind words!
Conropl, I have the 400mm 5.6 lens, 500mm 4.0 and 1,4TC, 700mm 5.6 is a lazy typing for 500mm+1.4XTC, sorry for the confusing!
I agree, Nice shots JJphoto. I also favor the Pelicans but the hawk's stare is cool. This is a Hairy Woodpecker from my yard this morning, also shot at 700mm!
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....24502892-5.jpg
Sorry - I should have figured that out... I guesse I am a little slow this morning.:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by JJphoto
Joel & JJ, your bird photos are always a pleasure to view!! Joel, you had me stumped on this one for a minute! I had to look up the difference between a hairy and a downy woodpecker so thank you for the education!
Denise
They do have nearly identical markings ... the Hairy is quite a bit bigger but unless they are side by side you can't tell that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by ddt0725
Notice the length of the bill....on a Downy it will be less than half the front to back size of the head (ie it's very short) and the Hairy has a bill longer than half the head. Here is a Downy.....
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....61177392-4.jpg
Incredible Hairy!! I was on vacation for two weeks so my feeders went dry and the birds have not returned yet. So, I went to a pond and shot some ducks:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6...cbb52481_z.jpg
Nice shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by dsiegel5151
How do you post you images here so they display like this?
Mark
clemmb, good question. I tried lots of different ways. Here is what I like best (i.e., the method that I have found results in the least amount of image degradation):
1. Open the images in the size you want them in flickr (I do 640x388)
2. Right click on the image at the appropriate size and click "Open Image in New Window"
3. Copy the URL for the image in the new window
4. Click "Image" icon to insert an image in the reply or post box in the digital-picture forum
5. Click "From URL"
6. Paste URL in the URL box
7. Deselect "Retrieve remote file and reference locally"
8. Click "OK"
I'm sure there is a better way to do this, but this is the only way I could get sharp images to insert. I still can't figure out how to link my flickr account, but I've seen other people do this. Anyone else have any ideas?
Here are some pictures I took today with my new Nikon AFS Nikkor 55-300m VR lens.
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@ Joel and Denise, thank you guys for the comments, really appreciate it. Joel, your set up bird shots are almost flawless,very artistic!
@ Lancer, nice shots! like the reflection of the duck shot! did you crop this shot? it's a little too tight to me IMO, and also the bird in first picture seems a little too centered, just my 2 cents!
Thanks, I appreciate the kind words. This is a Male Northern Cardinal, taken just a few minutes before the Hairy Woodpecker. Both of these were shot using the 500mm f/4L + 1.4 TCII (total of 700mm) and both were at ISO 2000. You can get away with higher ISO settings as long as the image is not underexposed. Photoshop and DPP can remove the noise easily but not if most of the histogram is pushed to the left.....you will not be able to recover detail.Quote:
Originally Posted by JJphoto
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....77906689-5.jpg