Post your best bird shots!

[Fast Glass]

Nice photo's everyone!


Here is a Mourning Dove from me. This was taken under very chalenging condition, it wouldn't let get close so I had to use my 2X extender, the light was demishing and overcastso I had to use 12,800 ISO and I didn't bring my tripod. But I used aladder which worked quite well actually.


Enough background here's the photo!


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60D, 400th sec, 12,800 ISO, focussed in live view 10X mode, processed in DXO and downrezed in DPP.


Cheers,


John.

[Joel Eade]

John,


I think the detail and relative lack of noise at iso 12,800 is awesome!


Did you use noise reduction in DXO?

[Joel Eade]

Here's one shot of a goldfinch visitor I had today ...

Denise,


I like this one alot ... good pose and head angle, nice and sharp, well exposed and in nice light......I would crop some off the bottom so the branch is not in the center of the frame and I would try to darken the bright streak in the background above and to the left of the bird


Joel

[Joel Eade]

A Black Capped Chickadee in the yard, !DMKIII + 300 f/2.8 + 1.4TC


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[ddt0725]

Perfect exposure and composition on the chickadee, Joel!

Here's one shot of a goldfinch visitor I had today ...
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Denise,


I like this one alot ... good pose and head angle, nice and sharp, well exposed and in nice light......I would crop some off the bottom so the branch is not in the center of the frame and I would try to darken the bright streak in the background above and to the left of the bird


Joel



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Ok, you got me to fiddle around with PSE which I am still a struggling newbie at! I may have gotten carried away with adjusting the background but here's the revised version ...




Improvement or should I have left well enough alone? I tried a few different ways of adjusting that lighter streak and my attemps failed. Now I think I may have made the background too dark (?)

Denise

[JJphoto]

John, very impressive noise control!


Denise, I think you did very good adjustment of recomposing the bird and removing the lighter streak. and the darker BG doesn't bother me at all.good work!

[Fast Glass]

Joel,


Yes, I used DxO's noise reduction and adjusted the colors to in it. If you didn't use DxO yet you should really try it.


I really like your chicadee!


John.

[Joel Eade]

Improvement or should I have left well enough alone?

Yessss!!!! ...... that's more like it .....very good []

[Richard Lane]

Great suggestion Joel, and well executed Denise!


Rich

[Joel Eade]

A Song Sparrow (backyard setup as usual)





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