Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

This an Egret, taken in early Sept. in Florida


1D MKIII


500mm f4L + 1.4TC


f/10


1/1250


iso 400


manual mode


evaluative metering


processed with ACR and CS5





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[JJphoto]

thanks Joel for all your informative posts, really appreciate it.


BTW, may I ask how to post screen shot? thanks!

[Kayaker72]

Hi Everyone.


I love this thread. Great pictures everyone.


I hada littletime in Florida a week ago, but here are a few that I think now qualify as "my" best bird photos. All shot with a Canon 7D and the 100-400L:


400 mm, ISO 400, 1/1000th, f/11....this picture represents my first real attempt at post processing. The original was underexposed on the Osprey but perfectly exposed for the clouds. I've adjusted brightness, contracts and "mid-tones"


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360 mm, ISO 400, 1/1000th, f/11


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250 mm, ISO 400, Exp Comp+2/3, 1/1000th, f/10...this may be my entry into Assignment 14....still debating.....


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400 mm, ISO 400, 1/1250th, f/13


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Thanks for viewing and C&C are welcome....

[Joel Eade]

JJPhoto, with regard to screenshots....


On a PC I think you can hit the PrintScrn key, then open Paint....under Edit hit paste....you can then save it as a JPEG


On a MAC I think you hit Control /Shift / F3 and it will automatically put the screenshot on your desktop as a .png file


Then you can open the file in PP and edit / crop ....etc......etc...


Joel

[JJphoto]

thank you Joel! that really helps.





Kayaker, these are nice shots! I like the osprey in flight very much, really great eye contact! it would be perfect if the wing tip didn't get clipped.

[Richard Lane]

Hi Everyone.


I love this thread. Great pictures everyone.


I hada littletime in Florida a week ago, but here are a few that I think now qualify as "my" best bird photos. All shot with a Canon 7D and the 100-400L:


400 mm, ISO 400, 1/1000th, f/11....this picture represents my first real attempt at post processing. The original was underexposed on the Osprey but perfectly exposed for the clouds. I've adjusted brightness, contracts and "mid-tones"


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360 mm, ISO 400, 1/1000th, f/11


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250 mm, ISO 400, Exp Comp+2/3, 1/1000th, f/10...this may be my entry into Assignment 14....still debating.....


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400 mm, ISO 400, 1/1250th, f/13


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Thanks for viewing and C&C are welcome....

Kayaker, In general you probably don't need f/11 for birds, you can drop your f-stop a few stops and lower your ISO, remember the name of the game for BIF and action shots is fast shutter speed and low ISO. You can get away with it at the beach, because you have plenty of light, however f/11 is above the DLA for the 7D, so diffraction starts to creep in and remember at longer focal lengths your DOF is deeper.


Great capture on the Osprey, good head angle, nice wing span although it's slightly clipped (it happens). I don't like the cropping, as I feel it's too tight. The head is right in the center of the frame, both horizontally and vertically. Since this was a tight shot, if you can't crop it horizontally, then at least try to remove the birds head from then center of the frame by leaving air and space below the wings in the frame, not only will this remove the bird from being perfectly centered it will also give a sense of height and flight to the bird.


All of the shots, especially the 2nd shot over the water is definitely screaming for a Circular Polarizing filter. Keep in mind that you will lose 1 -1.5 stops with the Circ. Polarizer, which is another good reason to widen your aperture.


I love the 3rd shot, nice capture, great composition, very sharp. The last one is a little soft.


Keep shooting and posting,


Rich

[Richard Lane]

@Joel, Nice Composition and creamy bokeh on the Egret shot.


Rich

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Rich.


Bob, I wish I was close to the Sandhills, looks like some great opportunities.....you should just go ahead and order the 800 mm lens !!


Nate, Nice action shot, I might try toning down the splash just a little, very cool capture.


Joel

[Joel Eade]

This is a group of Terns from my Florida trip in September


1D MKIII + 500mm f/4L + 1.4 TC


manual mode, evaluative metering, center AF point, AI servo mode


1/1250 f/5.6 iso 400





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[JJphoto]

Wow, amazing shots everybody, I missed the party!


HDNitehark, what a story of nature!, I was wondering would it better if you should video instead.


congratulations, Brendan, the"post your best bird shot" thread is getting closer to the 1000 posts , we have not seen you for a while, maybe you will post the 1000th post?


here is my recent shot just to celebrate the coming 1000th post


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thanks for viewing!