Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Nice shots Denise and Jayson. This is one from this evening in the backyard...it's an immature male Summer Tanager.


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[Jayson]

Oh thats a cool shot Joel! One thing I see on my screen is under the bird between it and the branch the noise is still present. I know your a perfectionist with that stuff, just wanted to point that out. Really nice grab. That blue jay shot above is awesome. I can only dream! Thanks for the complement on the one above.

[ddt0725]

I'm not sure what that second bird is Jayson but I sure wish we had those around here ...beautiful shot! The background beautifully compliments the subject!


Awesome Tanager, Joel! they sure are colorful! We don't those in my area either![]

Denise

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Denise and Jayson.


You're right about the noise, I guess my eyes were fatigued last night and I didn't see it. This was a fairly large crop and the IQ suffered some but I had never seen a juvenile before so I kept it.


Yesterday was a very active bird day....the doves were extremely cooperative....


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[Jayson]

Great dove shots Joel. Sorry I didn't mean to nitpick. Your stuff always is inspiring. I had never seen one of those birds before so I guess that is why I was looking closer than normal. I snapped a picture of a western meadowlark the same day I caught the others. I have never saw one in real life before or maybe I just didn't look hard enough. This was again with the 2 kenkos stacked and a 70-200mm f4L IS and cropped heavily also. Going to get a 300F4 soon I hope.

[Richard Lane]

Denise, I noticed that it looks like you stepped up your bird shots quite a bit, you have some really beautiful, colorful, and sharp shots on the previous page. Keep up the great work!


Joel, Your shots are extraordinary! Once again, very sharp, beautifully composed shots with clean, creamy backgrounds!


Jayson, that was very observant of you, I didn

[Fast Glass]

Hi Jason, if you want a birding only lens the 400mm f/5.6 is far superior to the 300mm f/4. The AF is quicker and you don't need as many extenders, extenders GREATLY affect AF also. Bare it's sharper and handles extenders better. The 300mm is more versitile with it's IS and wider aperture but since you are stacking extenders you would be better off with the 400mm.


John.