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Eastern Bluebirds

Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
edited June 18, 2013 in Wildlife
Well on the weekend I found a pair of Eastern Bluebirds and decided to see if I can capture a few shots of them in flight.

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Regards - Dennis

Dennis Kaczor Photography

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    wave01wave01 Registered Users Posts: 204 Major grins
    edited April 29, 2013
    brilliant just brilliant
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    IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited April 29, 2013
    I guess the answer is "yes." bowdown.gif
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    ashruggedashrugged Registered Users Posts: 345 Major grins
    edited April 29, 2013
    You rock, thats amazing, will you tell us a little about how you did this, light , background, focal length, and did you bait them in. I must know.
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    DsrtVWDsrtVW Registered Users Posts: 1,991 Major grins
    edited April 29, 2013
    Beautiful BIFs , the Western bluebirds that hung out here last year have not been seen yet this year.
    Good to see the Eastern are representinclap.gif
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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2013
    wave01 wrote: »
    brilliant just brilliant

    Thank you for your comments.
    Regards - Dennis

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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2013
    Icebear wrote: »
    I guess the answer is "yes." bowdown.gif

    Thank you John an yes is correct.
    Regards - Dennis

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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2013
    ashrugged wrote: »
    You rock, thats amazing, will you tell us a little about how you did this, light , background, focal length, and did you bait them in. I must know.

    Thanks you ashrugged.

    Nikon D300S with 500mm Lens and a 1.7 Teleconverter. No baiting them at all, but this pair has a nesting box in this and are competing with the Tree Swallows. They are defending this nesting box though.

    How these images had been taken is simple, I pulled back to give myself plenty of shooting room to allow me to capture them coming in to land on the nesting box. I would take my focus point on the edge of the nest box, and lock down the Wimberley Head in that one spot. As they come in to land I would fire off the camera with the hopes that they would be in focus, and in this case of these two images paid off.
    Regards - Dennis

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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2013
    DsrtVW wrote: »
    Beautiful BIFs , the Western bluebirds that hung out here last year have not been seen yet this year.
    Good to see the Eastern are representinclap.gif

    Thank you Chris. These are the only pair that I have seen yet, and no others in this location. Maybe they t behind in arriving in your area.
    Regards - Dennis

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    PGMPGM Registered Users Posts: 2,007 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2013
    Wow, Dennis! Each one is spectacular! Best, Pam
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    joshhuntnmjoshhuntnm Registered Users Posts: 1,924 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2013
    wow. amazing!
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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2013
    PGM wrote: »
    Wow, Dennis! Each one is spectacular! Best, Pam

    Thank you so much Pam for the kind words on these images.
    Regards - Dennis

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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2013
    joshhuntnm wrote: »
    wow. amazing!

    Thank you so much Josh for your comments too.
    Regards - Dennis

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    superduckzsuperduckz Registered Users Posts: 377 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2013
    It's great (and refreshing) to see such amazing bird photographs that are NOT of a bird of prey! Not that I dislike Eagles and Ospreys of course.
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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2013
    superduckz wrote: »
    I great (and refreshing) to see such amazing bird photographs that are NOT of a bird of prey! Not that I dislike Eagles and Ospreys of course.

    First of all thank you, and sometimes the small bird present themselves that you just cannot help but try to photograph them. I know what you mean about the birds of prey and nice to photograph them too when they are around the area as well.

    Thanks again.
    Regards - Dennis

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    WossaWossa Registered Users Posts: 99 Big grins
    edited May 1, 2013
    Bloody lovely....wow, amazing photography skills.
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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2013
    Wossa wrote: »
    Bloody lovely....wow, amazing photography skills.

    Wossa, thank you so much for your comments and glad that you enjoyed these shots.
    Regards - Dennis

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    StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2013
    Hats off!!!!
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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2013
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Hats off!!!!

    Thank you so much.
    Regards - Dennis

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    grimacegrimace Registered Users Posts: 1,534 Major grins
    edited June 1, 2013
    Wow!!!
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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2013
    Thank you Adam for the Wow.
    Regards - Dennis

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    puzzledpaulpuzzledpaul Registered Users Posts: 1,621 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2013
    All nice, but like 1 the best :)
    Out of interest, did you consider a different crop, altering the L / R balance of neg space ?

    Colourful subject, tho - some of these @ local venue'd be good ...

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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2013
    puzzledpaul wrote: »
    All nice, but like 1 the best :)
    Out of interest, did you consider a different crop, altering the L / R balance of neg space ?

    Colourful subject, tho - some of these @ local venue'd be good ...

    pp


    Thanks for your comments and happy that you liked the first image.

    I did consider it, but was pressed for a bit of time and left the image they way it is here. What I wanted to do is crop the left as lot more tighter and then add canvas space to the front of the bird to give it a much better crop. Maybe I'll rework this one image down the road.

    Thanks for your input on the crop and hope to add the fixed crop here soon.
    Regards - Dennis

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    puzzledpaulpuzzledpaul Registered Users Posts: 1,621 Major grins
    edited June 8, 2013
    Dennis Kaczor wrote: »
    ... What I wanted to do is crop the left as lot more tighter and then add canvas space to the front of the bird to give it a much better crop. ...

    Exactly what I had in mind, Dennis :)

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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited June 11, 2013
    puzzledpaul wrote: »
    Exactly what I had in mind, Dennis :)

    pp

    I thought the same after seeing your comments that this is what you were saying. Now I'll have to rework this image in PS.
    Regards - Dennis

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    Spinner of TalesSpinner of Tales Registered Users Posts: 528 Major grins
    edited June 13, 2013
    Absolutely beautiful shots clap.gif


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    keithrussell42keithrussell42 Registered Users Posts: 23 Big grins
    edited June 15, 2013
    Truly stunning. Thank you for sharing. These will definitely inspire me to raise my personal bar!
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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited June 18, 2013
    Spinner of Tales wrote: »
    Absolutely beautiful shots clap.gif


    Spinner :D

    Thanks ever so much for the kind words on this series of images.
    Regards - Dennis

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    Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited June 18, 2013
    keithrussell42 wrote: »
    Truly stunning. Thank you for sharing. These will definitely inspire me to raise my personal bar!

    Thank you so much too. I was happy to share these and happy that these images will inspire you and that you will raise that bar.
    Regards - Dennis

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