Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

got them today, had to use high key due to back light.
7D 500mm 4.0
thanks for viewing

Nice high key images....wish you could have been more to your left where they would be flying towards you.

[JJphoto]

Nice high key images....wish you could have been more to your left where they would be flying towards you.

thanks Bob and Joel!, because of the white background, you can really see the border line on the right, so the bird looks in the center, but anyway, appreciate your comment! I should have put a frame around the picture in CS5, but forgot how to do it

[Jayson]

got them today, had to use high key due to back light.
7D 500mm 4.0


thanks for viewing

This one is great and should be hanging on someone's wall. Great timing!

[JJphoto]

I appreciate your kind words, Jason. I have been thinking about that but havn't done any yet

[dsiegel5151]

Couple Dark-eyed Juncos from this morning's first snow in southern Missouri:

[Joel Eade]

Couple Dark-eyed Juncos from this morning's first snow in southern Missouri:

These are well posed and sharp, especially like the second one. It would really pop if you crop some off the top then darkened the BG slightly and brightened the bird slightly.

[dsiegel5151]

Eh, I'm not patient enough to do anything besides curves and cropping in Photoshop (i.e., every time I edit an image in Photoshop it is painfully obvious that the image was edited). However, I have had some wireless flash triggers sitting in my shopping cart at B&H for a few months now to help better control background and foreground exposure. Maybe now that my bank account is rebounding from the holidays I should hit purchase on those...

[Joel Eade]

Eh, I'm not patient enough to do anything besides curves and cropping in Photoshop (i.e., every time I edit an image in Photoshop it is painfully obvious that the image was edited). However, I have had some wireless flash triggers sitting in my shopping cart at B&H for a few months now to help better control background and foreground exposure. Maybe now that my bank account is rebounding from the holidays I should hit purchase on those...

A little fill flash would do the trick most likely.

I would suggest using your single 430 EXII with a Better Beamer from Visual Echoes....set your flash to ETTL and dial in about -2 1/3 stops as a staring point.

The Better Beamer is a relatively inexpensive accessory that works wonders with flash.

[Joel Eade]

Bob Williams was gracious enough to invite me to stay at his home for a few days AND to show mw around The Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge, needless to say we have had a great time and created more than a few thousand RAW files to process.....Thanks Bob & Norma for a fantastic time

This a Sandhill Crane portrait, there are literally thousands of them on the Bosque.

[bob williams]

Thanks Joel, I too have had a great time and learned a lot too. Your welcome back anytime; maybe then we can get that Harris's Hawk. Here is one that I managed to snap during Joel's Trip; Joel did the coaching on the post processing:

Northern Harrier enjoying breakfast



P.S. Joel, I hope we haven't burned you out on New Mexican Food.