Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

I noticed a family of juvenile Northern Cardinals visiting the feeder today so I got in the blind for an hour or so this evening......this is the female.


1D3


300 2.8L + 1.4TC


580EXII + Better beamer at 1/4 power manual


1/300


f/7.1


ISO 800





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[bob williams]

Joel, Love that Osprey shot and the little cardinal portrait is very nice as well. Have your Hummers flown away yet?


Bob

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Bob, the hummers are still here but it seems a few less this week.


I have a bunch of images from the last couple of sessions, I just need to go through and process the good ones.

[bob williams]

Well, here are are few from this weekend and this evening, still having a heck of a time with ghosting and shadowing, but I did manage to reduce it by moving the background closer to the subject. I think I am getting the shadowing from the light bouncing off of the back ground. Anyway, here are a few I am willing to share.

[ddt0725]

WOW, Bob! You have to be so proud of these photos! They are absolutely stunning!

[Steve U]

Second that Bob, sensational.


Some more lorikeets, all that planting tends to create a banquet for these colourful little birds.


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And one more that tried to hide behind a eucalypt.


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Thanks for viewing.


Steve

[bob williams]

@Steve, those are such cool birds, looks like the gardening is really paying off for you. Great shots.


@Denise, Thanks..but actually I am still having a lot of problems with ghosting. Sometimes I do get lucky and capture one where the ghost isn

[Joel Eade]

Bob,


you are really producing some nice shots, you

[ddt0725]

Steve - You are so lucky to be able to look outside every day and see these beautiful flowers and birds! The flowers look so delicate and the birds are so colorful ...it would be like seeing a rainbow every day right outside my window!

[Dr Croubie]

@Joel. The cocky was just down the river Torrens near my place, maybe 5 minute walk. There's a flock of about 10-20 there at the moment, coming down to feed on the grass seeds on the ground these days. That shot I was lying on my back taking shots of him with my 70-300L, while he was looking down at me with a 'what you doing?' look on his face, before he took off almost straight at me (thankfully the AF kept up).


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I got some nice ones today just sitting amongst them with my 180mm f/2.8 zeiss Sonnar, this one was when they all started screeching (presumably because i was getting too close)


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@steve, love all the lorikeets. We get the same down in adelaide, but i can never get close enough, and/or there's branches in the way of all my shots, so well done on them.





and @bob. pretty much all I can say is wow. I can't see any ghosting there, got an example of ones that have them in? (or are you just being too perfectionist like the rest of us?)