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    nice shots Joel and Andy ,enjoying watch them very much!





    I guess I have finally figured out how to post pictures online without loss much color and sharpness[]


    here are some recent shots


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    thanks for viewing!

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    Really nice work JJ, that gull is a very good image.
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    A Mourning Dove during a snow storm coming in for a landing on my platform feeder ( I cloned the corner of the feeder out of the image)


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    JJ .... very nice images .... I like all of them ....looks like you are getting to know that 500 quite well !!!


    I am hoping by 2012 I can swing getting the new 600.

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    Really nice shots this week guys!! Quite the catch on your last one, Joel! Fantastic!


    I am taking the day off work tomorrow to go eagle scouting since the sun is suppose to be shining for one brief day and I am starting to feel better!


    Wish me luck! I am not sure how long they hang around this area in Wisconsin so I hope they are still there!


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    Nice capture Joel, an ethereal quality, nice feel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JJphoto
    I guess I have finally figured out how to post pictures online without loss much color and sharpness




    JJ, That set looks really good and sharp. I like the way the sun plays on the bottom one.

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    thanks Steve, Rick ,Joel and Denise for your kind words, really appreciate it!


    Joel, the Dove picture is really cool, I really like the motion blur of the wings, also good PP work to cloned out the unwanted subject!


    Andy, I like the goose with the baby picture very much! I

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJphoto
    I'v noticed that your pictures have the clean looking that my picture don't have, is it because the 5D II, or there are some secret in PP?
    JJ, I think you are being hard on yourself. I don't see much difference between my shots and yours in terms of how 'clean' they are. Maybe you notice it more in your full size images.

    The larger sensor of the 5D II and 1D IV helps a lot with noise, but I sometimes notice pattern noise in the shadows on my 5D II. I often use a lower ISO and a longer exposure time than I really should for wildlife shots. You wouldn't normally try to shoot a flying albatross at 1/320s and I missed a lot of shots that day by trying to keep my ISO low. I know now that I don't need to worry so much about low ISO with the 5D and 1D. Where necessary, I use Lightroom 2 for noise reduction, but this often isn't required for the web. I pay more attention to noise if I'm going to be printing a shot.

    I export as jpeg without resizing, with quality set to 100 and the standard amount of sharpening for screen output. I upload the full size (10-15 MB) jpeg to flickr but what you see here is a downsized version at 800 pixels wide (or 640 pixels tall for portrait shots).
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    Andy, very very nice images.....that Antarctica trip looks like it was amazing. The 5D2 does well with wildlife and should be able to go to very high iso levels without much noise. I have seen plenty of shots at iso 3200 without a problem.


    PS: The Male Mallards here also have the white band around the neck, I believe the one I shot was a juvenile as you suggested.

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