Post your best bird shots!

[YellowJacket]

Thanks. Yes... it was very overcast []but I was so lucky to be so close for so long. These photos are only 50% cropped with my 70-200.


Side note: I have been using ACR for my raw conversions since I purchased my 50D. I mentioned to Canon product specialist at NAB that my 50D had bad noise above iso 400, he said I should use DPP instead of ACR (because DPP knows the 50D sensor better than ACR). I had practically zero noise correction set in DPP and look at my iso 800 result below. Superb details with only a very modest unsharp mask after resize.





50D 70-200L F4 IS @ F4 1/800 iso 400 (manual exposure)





50D 70-200L F4 IS @ F4 1/1000 iso 800 (manual exposure)


-james

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Last one is a great one James, really shows off the color of these little guy. Excellent sharpness and detail, great job of exposing the subject againsts white sky.


American Avocets getting naughty! []





40D + 400 f/5.6L

[Brendan7]

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Here's an american robin in my yard; as always w/ my 300 f/4 and 7D.
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