Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Matthew Gilley]

40d ISO 800 70-200 IS @ 200mm F2.8 1/320.


All are cropped at least 50%


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Would love any critique - especially on exposure and PP. I think
highlight tone priority would have helped - the head's highlights are
blown. I also debated between more DoF vs higher ISO.

[EdN]

Nice shots! Having stalked Great Blue Herons myself, it's a game of luck and patience and I think you had both. Looking at your photos,you didn't havea lot of light to work with so I don't think you could have changed ISO, shutterspeed, or aperature to get better results. I think what you got is pretty good for the conditions.

[Colin]

[Dave Johnston]

Just some recent ones. Spring is here!!! That cute kid, Colin.


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[Colin]

great blue on that dragonfly!


Nice light on the goat.


Aww, the fuzzy duckies are so CUTE!


They grow up to be pretty dirty.


We used to have some ducks and geese in a way too small backyard. I really liked how they ate snails. We got an above ground pool, about 3 feet high, and they and the geese would get all excited and swim around underwater like they were flying. We threw a couple hundred feeder fish in there, and they really had a good time. Way messy though. Within a couple days, you couldn't see the bottom, then algae and mosquito larvae soon afterwards.

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

when the duckies are grown up and fat, I have a great recipe for them.

[Bill W]

2 summer residents have returned;


Oriole on 5-5-09








Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5-6-09

[Don Burkett]

Some great shots in this thread. Here are some of my favorites.


Yertle the Turtle: 40D 560mm f/13@ 1/125 tripod AP+1/3 center crop





Eagle Eye: 40D 400mm f/5.6 @ 1/50 ISO 100 AP -1/3 tripod center crop








Into the Sunset: 40D, 390mm f/5.6 @ 1/8000 ISO 500 offhand








Sundown Swan: 40D <span class="exif"]1/200s f/6.3 at 280.0mm iso800 tripod








Thanks for looking. More at [View:http://www.pbase.com/dbrasco/animals] if you're interested.

[Rodger]

Yertle the Turtle: 40D 560mm f/13@ 1/125 tripod AP+1/3 center crop

Don, is that a Seussicalreference!? My school just got done doing that musical so my mind is still in Suess land.


Sorry, totallyirrelevant, but I just had to ask.


Very nice pictures by the way!


I like "Eagle Eye" the best.

[Don Burkett]

Yertle the Turtle: 40D 560mm f/13@ 1/125 tripod AP+1/3 center crop

Don, is that a Seussicalreference!? My school just got done doing that musical so my mind is still in Suess land.


Sorry, totallyirrelevant, but I just had to ask.


Very nice pictures by the way!


I like "Eagle Eye" the best.
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Indeed it was. Dr. Seuss was my favorite as a child and a favorite to read to my children.