Post your best bird shots!

[Bill W]

Big Tom strutting; ISO 1000, 1/80, f5.6, at 100mm w/100-400, tripod, and new 7D, but this is info for another thread.

[devosphotography]

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my first upload


grey heron


greeting mark

[YellowJacket]

Nice GBH.


I dare not say how hard it's been to get the red-wing blackbird with my setup... [:|]they're all over where I live, but are difficult to approach. Success. I found a spot where I got many good shots today.





50D 70-200L F4 @ F4 1/1600 iso 200


-james

[ddt0725]

I dare not say how hard it's been to get the red-wing blackbird with my setup... [img]/emoticons/emotion-8.gif[/img]they're all over where I live, but are difficult to approach.

Your persistence paid off well ...your photo is beautiful!! [Y]

Denise

[Brendan7]

Nice shot James.


I suggest you use a birdfeeder and perch setup; you'll constantly be able to get within 10' of the birds and you won't have the "branch growing out of bird's head" problem.

[Joel Eade]

Backyard setup using a feeder and hide. Canon 40D, 300mm 2.8 + 1.4 TC. This was taken at dusk using a flash which gives the illusion of the background being very dark....I was trying to achieve this intentionally.





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[Shea Design]

Excellent capture there Joel! Was the flash off camera? Did the bird get sunglasses?


-Shea

[Brendan7]

2nd try at a Canada Goose portrait:


Comments and Criticisms welcome –


7D / 300 f/4 IS @ f7.1, 1/1000, ISO 400. Manual Exposure, Handheld.


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brendan

[M.Mobin]

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7D+150-500


iso 640-f/8-1/800sec-500mm

[YellowJacket]

Brendan, good pt about the the branch growing out of his head. Such a shame to lose that photo because of that, I took care of the branch in pp and re-uploaded, but in the future I'll try to handle it at capture.


I must say yesterday and today were some of the must fruitful days of shooting I've ever had. The sheer diversity of birds I saw was awesome. I've got material to post for a while...


I wish I had shots of Raptors, but this will do for now []








50D 70-200L F4 IS @ F4 1/1000 iso 200


And this one... looks like a redwing blackbird, but... no redwing. Maybe its a juvy.





50D 70-200L F4 IS @ F4 1/640 iso 200


-james