Post your best bird shots!

[Richard Lane]

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canon 40D + canon 400mm f2.8 +canon extender 1.4x

Adrian,


I love these two shots.., beautiful work!


The first one has such a creamy bokeh and the 2nd one is a great capture with a nice low angle perspective.


Rich

[JJphoto]

thanks Joel for the comment, really appreciated!

I have never seen this species in Kentucky before....I believe them to be Egyptian Geese, does anyone know about these birds?

I don't know this one either, I found only one in my place(southern California), I took this shot about 2 weeks ago, it looks almost as same as yours, it's very tame, I could get really close.

[JJphoto]

Bob, Tom and Rich, thank you guys very much for the kind words

How did you process these?

well I used CS5, as you know I just started to learn PS, so I couldn't do much in the software, I just did some basic thing like level, contrast ,saturation and sharpening, I added some vibrance, it seemed to make the image looked more vivid(not sure though).


Tom, like Rich mentioned, the creamy BG is from the lens, I can easily tell my pictures that which one was taken with the 300mm 2.8 or my 400mm 5.6


basically it was a lucky bust of 5-6 shorts and these two were the better one. thanks again guys for the compliments, really appreciated!

[ddt0725]

[JJphoto]

Wow, this is a really nice shot of a dancing GBH, I like the pose of the bird, sharpness and color, I guess you already know that a more blurred background would make this shot even better( did you use the widest aperture?)

[ddt0725]

Wow, this is a really nice shot of a dancing GBH, I like the pose of the bird, sharpness and color, I guess you already know that a more blurred background would make this shot even better( did you use the widest aperture?)
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Yeah, I could have made an adjustment there ...I had it at f/6.3 instead of 5.6 ....silly me! [:P] It was such an odd kind of day for lighting, sunny, cloudy, sunny again ...my settings were all over the place!

Denise

[Steve U]

Greetings to all, this is my first contribution. My reluctant models are my three little Italian Greyhounds.


Cheers,


Steve

[Steve U]

Oops, had two screens open and meant to post to the pet thread.


Great start. I'll try and find something with wings.


Steve

[Steve U]

Not quite there yet. But I'm getting closer. The lens was too good for me. And the image size is wrong. Oh well, keep trying rookie.


Cheers, Steve.

[doggiedoc]

Cool Steve - I can even see spiderweb.