Post your best bird shots!

[Kombi]

Thanks Bob, I generally like color better as well ... here's a backyard visitor this morning, we have about 1/2" of snow and it's 25 degrees.

Fantastic.

Browsed though this thread a few times now, I am in awe of how many fantastic bird shots there are.
It inspired me to try some. Rented a Canon EF 100-400mm lens for the weekend to play with. Took the dog to the park and played.

I now have even more respect for bird photos - there was only a couple chickadees and 1 woodpecker, but of the 50 or so shots I took only one is.. half decent.
Not same league as people here, but my best so far.



Edit: Shot with canon T2i, Lens 100-400mm, f/5.6, 1/2000 sec, ISO 800, hand held

[dsiegel5151]

I did the Barred Owl post a little larger than usual so you could see the quality of the 300 f2.8L IS II + 2x teleconverter (version II). Pretty good combo. Autofocus sucked (the geese in flight were with my 400 f5.6). And no, I didn't buy this. It was a rental. $55 for the entire weekend. Here's the picture info: 5D Mark II (not mine either; a friends), Iso 100, f5.6, 1/500s, handheld.

[dsiegel5151]

P.s. the only reason my friend and I found such a great Barred Owl, sitting right next to the road at eye level, and not scared of cars was b/c the Heavens opened up and said, "you guys are idiots. It's 15 degrees out here. You aren't even wearing gloves. Here's an owl for your effort." This was our second eagle trip of the year and we have still not come up with a keeper eagle in 2012.

[ddt0725]

IMG_6034 by Denise Trocio, on Flickr

[Joel Eade]

dsiegel, nice Owl image... I agree the image looks very sharp considering it was with a 2X converter. I have version I of that lens and 2XTC version 2 and it usually isn't that sharp on my 1D MKIII.

Denise ...nice Cooper's Hawk portrait...the same one that's been hunting in your yard?

[Joel Eade]

Fantastic.

Browsed though this thread a few times now, I am in awe of how many fantastic bird shots there are.
It inspired me to try some. Rented a Canon EF 100-400mm lens for the weekend to play with. Took the dog to the park and played.

I now have even more respect for bird photos - there was only a couple chickadees and 1 woodpecker, but of the 50 or so shots I took only one is.. half decent.
Not same league as people here, but my best so far.
Edit: Shot with canon T2i, Lens 100-400mm, f/5.6, 1/2000 sec, ISO 800, hand held

Your Chickadee image is very nice: a good pose with good exposure and sharpness. Probably 1 good keeper out of 50 isn't too bad a ratio especially just starting out and using a lens you're not practiced with. If you are really wanting to get into it consider the 400 f/5.6L lens....super sharp, fast AF, light and easy to handle.

[Dave Throgmartin]

I took a Northern Cardinal picture today that I think came out really well.

I took it with a 60D, 135L lens, f/5.6, 1/800 second, and ISO 200. Post process was to crop and resize / sharpen for web posting.

[Joel Eade]

Nice Cardinal...there's that 135mm lens again....if you de-saturate the reds a little it will bring out some detail. Nice shot.

[ddt0725]

Denise ...nice Cooper's Hawk portrait...the same one that's been hunting in your yard?

Same one, same day, different pic! I haven't seen him since.

[Dave Throgmartin]

Nice Cardinal...there's that 135mm lens again....if you de-saturate the reds a little it will bring out some detail. Nice shot.

Good tip, Joel. I like this one better with less saturation. I shot JPG instead of RAW so I had to edit the shot I posted earlier.

Dave