Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Andy Stringer]

Could you post that image, downrezed of course! And a 100% crop for perspective

The original is too big even for flickr, and it is less than 100 pixels high when downsized so it loses the impact. But in case you doubt me, I've just re-done it as two images.

All taken with 5D Mark II, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm, f/10, 1/50s, ISO 100





100% crop (when viewed at Large size on flickr) of the white house at the lower left corner of the 2nd image:


The house is 2 miles from my viewpoint.

[Fast Glass]

Dude, that picture has staggering deitail! I guess shouldn

[smith365]

<span style="color: #000000;"]I set my camera up on a remote timer to get a few shots of the
mockingbird in my backyard. The sun was going down and I had to push
the exposure about 1.5 stops in post, which explains the extra grain.


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<span style="color: #000000;"]<span style="font-size: x-small;"]Canon 7d


<span style="color: #000000;"]<span style="font-size: x-small;"]EF 70-200 f/4<span style="color: #ff0000;"]L USM (200mm)



<span style="color: #000000;"]<span style="font-size: x-small;"]Remote Timer


<span style="color: #000000;"]<span style="font-size: x-small;"]Manual Mode


<span style="color: #000000;"]<span style="font-size: x-small;"]ISO 640


<span style="color: #000000;"]<span style="font-size: x-small;"]1/200


<span style="color: #000000;"]<span style="font-size: x-small;"]f/6.3





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[dhesling]

EXIF Intact


Thanks for looking!


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[George Slusher]

I finally put up some bird feeders in December. The feeders are right outside my office window so that I can see them by turning my head to the right. I keep a Canon S3 IS (superzoom point-and-shoot) on the desk. I recently got a used 50D that has become my primary DSLR, so I put my 70-200mm f/4L IS on my 30D and keep it by the desk, as well.


Most of the visitors are the standard bunch--goldfinches, house finches
&amp; chickadees at the tube feeder, bushtits and chickadees on the
suet feeder, juncos and various sparrow species (song, chipping,
savannah, and house) at the ground feeder, with the occasional scrub
jay. (The jays actually try to use the tube feeder, as well, without
much success. I have seen a junco on the tube feeder perch, but most
are too big/fat and can't turn their heads enough to get into the
feeder. I've even seen one starling attempt to get food out of the
tube.) I've seen one bird of prey--may have been a merlin--and a hummingbird (one species, Anna's, winters here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon), but they've not stayed long enough for a photo. These two guys (both are males) did stick around long enough. The first two photos are of a Varied Thrush, a rather colorful bird.








This was taken in the morning, but it was overcast. Auto WB turned out a bit blue and the photo was a bit dark, so I used DIgital Photo Professional to work on the RAW image. I pumped up the exposure 0.5 and chose "Cloudy" WB. The picture style was "Landscape," with saturation at +2 and sharpness at 4. (This is my standard setting for nature shots.) I then clicked on "Tone Curve Assist" in the RGB tab. I cropped in DPP and saved as a JPEG, then used Graphic Converter to scale to 750 pixels wide and applied a little bit of unsharp mask--a good idea when scaling down. Canon 30D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS @ 200mm, ISO 400, f/4, 1/160 sec.











This was taken today in better light, so I left the exposure and WB alone. All I did was crop and scale to 750 pixels wide with a bit of unsharp mask. Canon 30D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS @ 200mm, ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/250 sec, style Lanscape with Sat +2, sharpness 4.


The next is an Evening Grosbeak, taken with the Canon S3 IS @ 67.4mm (35mm equiv 404mm), ISO 200 (the S3 isn't as good at higher ISO as the 30D), f/3.5, 1/125 sec. Only processing was to crop and scale.














These suffer a bit from being taken through a double-paned insulated window that's a bit dirty on the outside, thanks in part to an industrious spider.

[Rocco]

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1/100 sec. f /16 ISO-100; 300mm -- Taken with my Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 SP Di VC on a Rebel XT body.