Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Here I edited it for you, this time a tried to keep a light hand on the saturation!


How do ya like it?


Cheers,


John.

It's pretty with extra boost but the background looks funky and the feet are too purple .... maybe the changes you made if applied just to the bird's plumage would be cool.


Here's one from today....Red Bellied Woodpecker 1DMKIII 300mm 2.8L 1.4 TC II ISO 1000 1/640 f/4.5 580EXII/Better Beamer -1 1/3 stops





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[thekingb]

Here are a couple from Lake Louisa State Park outside Orlando, FL. There's great bird photography almost everywhere you turn down there. These were taken with my 7D and EF 70-300L. This trip was the first real test for that lens, and I am very happy with its performance. It's still too short for serious birding, but it was amazing at Sea World and the like.


ISO 1000, f/5.6, 1/500s at 300mm.


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ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/1000s at 300mm, with some serious PP to lighten the shadows.


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[cfnz]

While I'm having a clean up of my Lightroom catalogue, here's some from the end of last year.


New Zealand Dotterel (I think) trying to get some breakfast.


40D; 300mm f/2.8 + 1.4x @ 420 mm; 1/1000 sec; f/4.0; ISO 100


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Neither was prepared to give up without a fight, the worm however
proved difficult to dislodge and it's elastic properties proved stronger
than the little bird. (Annoyingly I missed focus on the shot a fraction of a second earlier.)


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