First Ducks and a BIF!!! (5 pics)

Thusie

I must love shooting birds in late afternoon on a gloomy day, but hey, hunt duck when duck is around right?

Not up to the birders of Dgrin but I'm tickled. Using the 1.4TC on the 70-200 and probably shooting too wide to keep the shutter speed up. Still had to crop:wxwax Advice on how to improve is always welcome. No blue water here even on a sunny day:D

The group



The dunk



Back up



The air dry



Ok so it is just a flying rat..it is FLYING:D Should have cropped closer, noise too bad.

Andy

Thusie wrote:

Hiya Nonda

The technical term for that last shot is: BBIF

DanielB

Andy wrote:

The technical term for that last shot is: BBIF

whats the 2nd B for then?

Thusie

Hi Back Andy:):

DanielB wrote:

whats the 2nd B for then?

Butt Ughly BIF
Bad BIF

Have not a clue Daniel

jwear

DanielB wrote:

whats the 2nd B for then?

I can help with this B=bird b=butt i=in f=flight from one that has shot a few

Thusie

jwear wrote:

I can help with this B=bird b=butt i=in f=flight from one that has shot a few

:D:D:D A one legged BBIF no less

DanielB

jwear wrote:

I can help with this B=bird b=butt i=in f=flight from one that has shot a few

ah. hey now, give me a break:D i don't normally spend time in teh Wildlife and Nature forum *they all look like this...:crazy :harry *


:giggle

ohh, but once i get my bigma i will be:D

Rohirrim

Nice captures Thusie. They look a little bright on my monitor.

Thusie

Rohirrim wrote:

Nice captures Thusie. They look a little bright on my monitor.

Thanks Steve..I'm always afraid my personal taste runs to dark(er), must have over done..Or just too much excitment at having something to shoot besides squirrels:D

bfjr

Happy New Year Thusie
very nice BBIF
one of the best drowning duck shots I've see :lol

Your definitely got the "I wanna shot birdie syndrome", Welcome

Thusie

Thanks Ben and Happy New Year to you too:):

The real BBIF was the Broad-wing hawk He came in low and fast, I thouht I had missed him completely, nope got a blurry butt:D OR the Canada geese that came over low enough for me to get and I forgot to zoom

Yea birds are fun

Art Scott

Some really nice captures...really like the ducks.

pathfinder

Rohirrim wrote:

Nice captures Thusie. They look a little bright on my monitor.

I don't find them overbright on my calibrated Cinema display at all, when I clock pixels.

The sky in the last image is only about 235,2335,235 - not 255,255,255 like I would think it might be to be to allow capture of the backlit detail in the BBIF.

dallas

I like the air dry, and flying rats always present a great opportunity to hone your skills. They fly low, high, and fast. Good work, keep it up.

Thusie

pathfinder wrote:

I don't find them overbright on my calibrated Cinema display at all, when I clock pixels.

The sky in the last image is only about 235,2335,235 - not 255,255,255 like I would think it might be to be to allow capture of the backlit detail in the BBIF.

Thanks for checking Pathfinder. I have the Studio display and I calibrated with Supercal, not as good as Eye One etc. etc., but looks to match well with the test page I got fom Smugmug. The monitor thing is a worry.

Thusie

dallas wrote:

I like the air dry, and flying rats always present a great opportunity to hone your skills. They fly low, high, and fast. Good work, keep it up.

Thank you William..Felt very fumble fingered and SLOW. Yes tons of practice, loads of fun tho'.

Did re-work the one group shot I think it helped?

Harryb

The 4th shot