Fly By Night

Osprey Whisperer

Some snaps of the night herons in the backyard. Some serioulsy crappy lighting late this evening. What's with these birds? :dunno They love to come out and play by the hoards when there's an incoming storm and poor lighting. They are teasin' me..I swear!!!! :wxwax Digi + poor lighting + ISO 800 + fast birds = Strange looking grainy/noisy shots that almost look like drawings. Grrrrr. Where is that sun. Sunshine state my butt. :rofl















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Fly By Night.

Skippy

Hey Mr Smarty Pants

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

Some snaps of the night herons in the backyard. Some serioulsy crappy lighting late this evening. What's with these birds? They love to come out and play by the hoards when there's an incoming storm and poor lighting. They are teasin' me..I swear!!!! Digi + poor lighting + ISO 800 + fast birds = Strange looking grainy/noisy shots that almost look like drawings. Grrrrr. Where is that sun. Sunshine state my butt.
When all else fails...there is always our buddy Mr. Pho Toshop.

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Fly By Night.

Your right........the images do look like line draws, quite a nice effect actually......I really like what you did with that Moon shot, but did you notice the two really big spots on the left hand side (dust spots)
That is something I need to see if I can do with my Wolf's ......your pretty clever........bad lighting can really such when a great opportunity arrives, but you can only do what you can do, least you still got some keepers out of it.
Very Very good attempt on your part ....... Skippy (Australia)

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment, Skippy. I did not see the spots. :cry My sensor needs a serious cleaning after the other day. I was swapping lenses all day ....outside in a good breeze. Sometimes I think I see the little nasty spots..and then I don't. It's hard to spot the things on the blue skies. Grrrrrrrr. I wish I could go to B&H and buy some better eyes. Thanks for pointing this out.

I'll have to go and rework a lot of my images. I'm still just scratching the surface of this post processing stuff. I could do some noise reduction on these images as well, I suppose. They do print up rather interestingly.

It's amazing the difference a little more "good" light makes. Here is the same bird...same backyard, same camera..different day with some light.

Osprey Whisperer

Skippy wrote:

Hey Mr Smarty Pants

<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > Hey.. I resemble that remark.<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

<wonders what was behind that remark> :uhoh

Rohirrim

Nice effect on that last shot/merge. I'm not sure I can take your complaints about your weather very seriously. It's 11* out side as I write this.

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks Steve. I'm really sorry to hear about your cold weather. :giggle :lol4 :lol4 I spent many winters freezing in the boonies of Illinoizzzz. :cry Be sure to pass the word around it's really really cold in Florida and the sun is not shinning. There are still the threats of hurricanes and all the birds have left.


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marlof

Fly by Night immediately pictured a picture of an owl flying towards me in my head. Even the lyrics seem to fit with your images:

Start a new chapter
Find what I'm after
It's changing every day
The change of a season
Is enough of a reason
To want to get away
Quiet and pensive
My thoughts apprehensive
The hours drift away
Leaving my homeland
Playing a lone hand
My life begins today

I think people worry too much over noise, I like your images regardless of the noise.

Osprey Whisperer

marlof wrote:

Fly by Night immediately pictured a picture of an owl flying towards me in my head. Even the lyrics seem to fit with your images:

I think people worry too much over noise, I like your images regardless of the noise.

Thanks Marlof. The noise issue doesn't cause a problem if you are just looking at the work as an image in general. When a photograph is hard to tell it's a photograph due to noise..then I take issue with it....but not to the point that I'd throw anything like these out. If anything some images like this I'd tweek to push them more towards a drawing/graphic image ..rather than a sharp photo.

Regarding the Rush album. Ughmmm I won't say that I listen to that Rock 'n' Roll...or that I did think of that album when I posted the title of the post. "Moving pictures". :uhoh

Harryb

Excellent shots Mike. The first four were a tad noisy though.

Osprey Whisperer

Harryb wrote:

Excellent shots Mike. The first four were a tad noisy though.

What? I can't hear you. I've got ear plugs in. Those first few shots were so noisy.....I had to protect my ears. Thanks Harry. I'm glad you pointed out the noise. I'll figure out some of them fancy noise reduction techniques and give these images a reworking.

Harryb

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

What? I can't hear you. I've got ear plugs in. Those first few shots were so noisy.....I had to protect my ears. Thanks Harry. I'm glad you pointed out the noise. I'll figure out some of them fancy noise reduction techniques and give these images a reworking.

I was kind of surprised that a shot from a Canon had noise. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen unless you shot at ISO4800 or higher.

Osprey Whisperer

Harryb wrote:

I was kind of surprised that a shot from a Canon had noise. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen unless you shot at ISO4800 or higher.

That's partly true....but it's amazing what crappy overcast dim light will do for noise. Grrrrrrrrr. I suppose cropping a bit doesn't help...as I'm still shooting with my itty bitty 200mm.

If you ever get down here ..we'll go to the Venice Rookery..and I'll let you shoot my Canon off at the birdies. If you're nice..I'll even let you shoot as ISO 1600................

Harryb

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

That's partly true....but it's amazing what crappy overcast dim light will do for noise. Grrrrrrrrr. I suppose cropping a bit doesn't help...as I'm still shooting with my itty bitty 200mm.

If you ever get down here ..we'll go to the Venice Rookery..and I'll let you shoot my Canon off at the birdies. If you're nice..I'll even let you shoot as ISO 1600................

I would never touch a Canon. Not since the FDA reported they cause cancer.

Osprey Whisperer

Harryb wrote:

I would never touch a Canon. Not since the FDA reported they cause cancer.

Really? Wow!! I guess I better throw that camera out right away. :uhoh

bfjr

These are some good shots Mike
but I have to go see my ear doctor now :lol4

Osprey Whisperer

bfjr wrote:

These are some good shots Mike
but I have to go see my ear doctor now :lol4

You white haired old guys are all the same. Can never hear.

Huh? What? You'll have to speak up sonny...I'm hard of hearing in my old age.





Ben...I hope the Doc extracts that pineapple from your ear.....without removing anything else.

Michael Allen

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

Thanks Steve. I'm really sorry to hear about your cold weather. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/lol3.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > :giggle :lol4 :lol4 <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > I spent many winters freezing in the boonies of Illinoizzzz. :cry Be sure to pass the word around it's really really cold in Florida and the sun is not shinning. There are still the threats of hurricanes and all the birds have left. <attmept to keep the snow birds away for the winter>


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Unfortunatley they aren't listening, I'm seeing more and ... Just wait till next week!!

dallas

With your skills with Mr. PS, who needs all that light anyway. Nice moon shot.

Osprey Whisperer

Hey Mike, Thanks for stopping in. Yep..those darn snow birds are flocking down ..and fast. I know a couple personally that will be here next weekend. I just call them Mom 'n' Dad. :uhoh The vacation is over.


Thanks Dallas. I could hardly take any credit for being proficient with PS. Just a real hacker.....or is it "chopper". :uhoh