Post your best bird shots!

[ddt0725]

That shot is really beautiful, Joel!! Very nicely done!

[Joel Eade]

That shot is really beautiful, Joel!! Very nicely done!

Thanks Denise, I have been following your thread on the opportunity to make and sell some prints at a craft fair....I have been considering doing the same and I really hope you take your friend up on his offer, you have some really nice work and I think you will be successful. The regular posters here have given you great advice.

[Joel Eade]

These are a couple more shots with the 300m + 2X Version III with a more diffused light but I had to use ISO 1600 to get enough shutter speed

[Jayson]

Preening Great Egret

1D MKIV
500mm f/4L IS USM
Hand held from boat
ISO 800
f/8
1/3200

Your backyard setup is really getting sophisticated. Beautiful shot! Great detail in the whites!

[Joel Eade]

Your backyard setup is really getting sophisticated. Beautiful shot! Great detail in the whites!

Thanks Jayson.....I really ran up a big water bill this month

Still fiddling with the 300mm f/2.8L + Version III 2X TC.
ISO 3200 (very cloudy here today)
f/5.6
1/200



Using the 1D MKIV this combo focuses very fast, almost as if a teleconverter is not on the lens. The images are not quite as sharp straight out of the camera and they are a little noisier compared with the Version II 1.4 TC but they seem to sharpen easily enough and the noise isn't too objectionable. Also keep in mind I have done no AF microadjustment.

The overall performance in my opinion so far is excellent and certainly a viable alternative for bird photography. I will continue trying it and hope to get better conditions so I can use a lower ISO. I will also do some test shots with the 70-200 mm f/2.8L IS USM soon.

[Joel Eade]

Downy Woodpecker

1DMKIV
700mm
iso 3200
f/5.6
1/160

[Dave Throgmartin]

I've had quite a treat the past few days as the White-Crowned Sparrow has come through my yard on their migration back north. I took some pictures yesterday and these are 2 of my favorites. Both are taken with 60D, 135L, 1.4x TC II. The first at f/5 and the second at f/8. I like the expression in the second one.


2012_05_02_4534_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr


2012_05_02_4531_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr

[dsiegel5151]

Migratory bird day banding was fun. Temperatures here in Missouri are out of control, so it was pretty much the worst showing in terms of total numbers ever. Here's a few pics from the event. The one Goldfinch picture isn't very good, but I only post it b/c I liked his crazy damaged and regrown beak.

[Joel Eade]

Migratory bird day banding was fun. Temperatures here in Missouri are out of control, so it was pretty much the worst showing in terms of total numbers ever. Here's a few pics from the event. The one Goldfinch picture isn't very good, but I only post it b/c I liked his crazy damaged and regrown beak.

Nice shots! What's that old saying about a bird in the hand?

Good work

[Joel Eade]

Female Bluebird

1D MKIV
500mm + 2X TC III
ISO 1600
f/8
1/250

This is a full frame shot at 1000mm. The original before resizing is about 24 inches wide!

I performed an AF microadjustment by trial and error on this lens with the 2X converter and it seems very good