Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Oren]

I feel like I can see a Nate bird shot and just know it's him.
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Yes, me too... it's not that hard since no one here (no offense) gets anything close to his shots... but well how one can get anything close to him without 400mm? [hope you understand the joke LOL].

[Dave Johnston]

Went to Panama Last week. Here are a few critters.... I need a better lens.


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f/7.1 1/500 ISO125 @300mm





here comes the chomp.


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f/7.1 1/500 ISO125 @300mm





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f/7.1 1/400 ISO800 @ 300mm





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f/7.1 1/400" ISO640 @300mm





Last one.


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f/8 1/250 ISO400 @300mm with 480ex Speedlight.





The little baby monkey just kept making faces.


All shot with 50D+ Tamron 75-300mm 4.0-5.6 (ugh....)

[Jayson]

I caught this guy roaming around our farm this weekend.


Shot with XSi, 100mm macro at f/4, 1/250 sec, iso200, with minor crop.


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[Jon Ruyle]

Hi Jayson- Nice. The composition is great and the colors are very vivid, but not overdone (IMO, that is... tastes vary).


The 100mm macro is quite a versatile lens... it isn't just for macros.

[Dann Thombs]

Brilliant shot. Maybe a bit more saturation, but comp is dead on.

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Thanks everyone for your nice comments, it is very encouraging.


Dave, I really like the reaction of the monkey in the last image,one looksso serious, the other looks dissapointed, were you doing something that they didn't approve of ? [] j/k! I think you can enhance the image by sharpening it, looks like the softness is due to resizing.


Jayson, that is one nice image, a classic pose and composition of apeacock.


I took a walk at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve and found this heron hunting smelts


40D &amp; 400 f/5.6L, f/6.3, 1/3200, ISO 250, -1


This is fullframe. The larger version came straight out of the camera, I onlyresized, sharpened and added a border. For this one, I felt that the bg is too blue so I desaturated the bg. I also blended the black area in the ULC.





Larger Version http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9420259&amp;size=lg


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[Jayson]

Thanks for the comments. I have always wanted to get one of those, but he never opened up.


Nate, always amazed at your shots.

[Oren]

Nate: WoowWWOwW

[Oren]

Nate: WoowWWOwW