Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[EdN]

I did the same thing as you before I learned what works. Crop or resize your image so it is 800 pixels wide at the maximum. Fits perfectly and displays perfectly.


Regards

[Dave Metcalf]

Here are some shots from last summer on a small lake near Traverse
City, Michigan. All were taken with a EOS 30D, with an EF 100-400
f/4.5-5.6 L IS lens (rented from Lens Rentals -- who have given me
great service by the way -- can't recommend them high enough).


Enjoy


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Loons adult and immatures -- 400mm, f/7.1, 1/400 sec This image has been photoshopped a bit to tone down the green reflection from the woods along the lake shore.





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Great Blue -- taken from a kayak (hope the folks from Lens Rentals aren't reading this!) 400 mm, f/7.1, 1/400 sec





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Immature Bald Eagle 275 mm, f/8, 1/500 sec





Let me know what you think. I've been a serious amateur for a while -- and having a blast.

[George Slusher]

For Dave Metcalf:


I can't give a technical critique. I just wish that I had taken them!


Looks like you may have used the 100-400mm zoom.

[kwc]

Thanks for your help, EdN. Very much appreciated!

[Dirk-Jan Kraan]

I like the heron with fish of<span class="user-name"][url="/members/Sinh-Nhut-Nguyen/default.aspx]Sinh Nhut Nguyen[/url].





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Wild fox at Oostvaardersplassen in The Netherlands.


Canon 50D 400mm F7.1 1/1000





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[Garrett-Grimsley]

Took this in my backyard yesterday, first nice, bright blue sky in a long while. Glad spring is coming. [H]

[piiooo]

Since we're talking eagles here's mine:


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[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Dave, I like the loon and low angle you shot it. Just a few suggestions on the GBH and the ealge, for the GBH the bird's going away and it's also out of focus, for the eagle I think a tighter crop would be nicer. Good luck next time []


Piioo, nice eagle, I would like to see more wing details and the bird coming at you. [] Good luck next time.


Reddish Egrets are not indigenous to Southern California, they are home to the gulf coast states. Last summer we had 3 visiting Bolsa Chica, while the other 2 went to breed, this young bird stayed and has made BC its home for the past year.


Larger version here http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7972432&amp;size=lg


40D, 400 f/5.6L, f/6.3, 1/1250 sec, ISO 250.

[Bill W]

piioo;


I agree w/Sinh's critique, but sometimes you just have to take what the subject gives you.....nice capture of an ABE.


Here's a juvie BE I captured returning to my car, after being out all morning looking for BEs....of course the nice light was gone!





BEs are making a come back in my area but are still relatively rare which is a perfect segue into this photo another rare visitor to my area; juvie Snowy Owl





A more recent photo and not so rare but a tough bird to capture unobstructed and relatively close; N. Flicker





Regards


Bill

[piiooo]

Sinh, Bill,


thanks a lot for your comments. I am a newbe in bird photography, but I'm trying. It's not easy to get eye contact, frontal presentation, without dictracting bacground/foreground, and what I think ismost important - without harassing the birds. I just spotted an osprey platform, let's hope I'll get some nice shots.


Sinh -any advice onphotographing ospreys?