Post your best bird shots!

[Andy Stringer]

I'm enjoying the headless bird shots, especially the ones in flight. I would have liked to get one of these in flight, but I might have been waiting a while:

Adelie penguins on an iceberg in the Weddell Sea

5D Mark II, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @400mm, f/8, 1/1000s, ISO 100

[Andy Stringer]

The Slavonian Grebe is quite rare in the UK. Only about 40 pairs breed here each spring. Fortunately, they always choose the same place to breed each year and it's just a two-hour drive away, so I was able to observe them last weekend.

1D Mark IV,EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM +1.4x @ 560mm, f/8, 1/500s, ISO 320

The black-headed gull (which has a chocolate brown head, not black) is much more common. This one was at a country park closer to home.

1D Mark IV, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, f/8, 1/640s, ISO 800

[Joel Eade]

Here I edited it for you, this time a tried to keep a light hand on the saturation!


How do ya like it?


Cheers,


John.

It's pretty with extra boost but the background looks funky and the feet are too purple .... maybe the changes you made if applied just to the bird's plumage would be cool.


Here's one from today....Red Bellied Woodpecker 1DMKIII 300mm 2.8L 1.4 TC II ISO 1000 1/640 f/4.5 580EXII/Better Beamer -1 1/3 stops





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[thekingb]

Here are a couple from Lake Louisa State Park outside Orlando, FL. There's great bird photography almost everywhere you turn down there. These were taken with my 7D and EF 70-300L. This trip was the first real test for that lens, and I am very happy with its performance. It's still too short for serious birding, but it was amazing at Sea World and the like.


ISO 1000, f/5.6, 1/500s at 300mm.


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ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/1000s at 300mm, with some serious PP to lighten the shadows.


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[cfnz]

While I'm having a clean up of my Lightroom catalogue, here's some from the end of last year.


New Zealand Dotterel (I think) trying to get some breakfast.


40D; 300mm f/2.8 + 1.4x @ 420 mm; 1/1000 sec; f/4.0; ISO 100


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Neither was prepared to give up without a fight, the worm however
proved difficult to dislodge and it's elastic properties proved stronger
than the little bird. (Annoyingly I missed focus on the shot a fraction of a second earlier.)


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[neuroanatomist]

John....I'm surprised you only had to use 1/1600 to stop the trees from moving....the winds were howling. Where's your rookery located?

The trees weren't just waving around - several smaller ones actually fell right over into the marsh!


There are a couple rookeries nearby - the shots here were from one in Concord, MA, and there's another accessible one in Sudbury, MA.

[greggf]

Here is a 'cheat" shot in my back backyard with our Hummingbird feeder....


1D4 and 70-200 2.8ll....f4@1/500th


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[JustinThyme]

While Im not primarily a birder I went to shoot a soccer tournament and when I parked there was a pond with Canadian Geese doing their spring fling thing and I had awhile before the first game started so I took a bit to get some captures.


All shot with Canon 1D MKIV and 400 2.8L IS not handheld. I hear plenty of BS stories of people handholding these and while Im no body builder Im no wimp either and the best I can do is one or two clicks at a time. Well if you are trying to get a bird in flight that isnt cutting it so these were on a monopod with IS mode II.


f5.6


ISO 400


1/2000

[Joel Eade]

1dMKIII


300mm 2.8L +1.4 TCII


1/320


iso 800


f/7.1


fill flash with 580 EXII + Better Beamer -2 1/3 stops


I attempted to process this one to make it look sort of "painterly" using CS5


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[Kayaker72]

A mating pair of Headless GBHs!


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