Birds On The Make

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited March 15, 2006 in Wildlife
Nesting:

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I went to the rookery at Magnolia Gardens today. It has been quite awhile. The leaves used to be on the trees. The leaves are coming back, but just a bit! Amazing what you can see without all those leaves....

Hormones were raging. It was dating/mating/pairing up time at the rookery.
Before the sunset it looked somewhat like a rave, though I have never been to one. Birds On The Make.

by ginger
3/13/2006

Comments, etc welcome! Or look and enjoy......or not, smile. Thanks for stopping here at the creek! Heating up, it is!
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.

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  • tmlphototmlphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,444 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    Ginger, these are both very nice. The colors and lighting work very well.
    Thomas :D

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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,262 moderator
    edited March 14, 2006
    Awesome! The BIF looks to be OOF. Is this the case on the full shot?
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    David_S85 wrote:
    Awesome! The BIF looks to be OOF. Is this the case on the full shot?

    A Tad.

    Thanks for commenting. Though,

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    Hi, I went out there with Bill last night/afternoon. It was gorgeous, birds looking for love, often in pairs...............I shot and I shot.

    Came home with basically very little, so little as to be mundane and uninteresting, to me..............and I would think to you.

    I have an appt this AM, but stayed up to try to get something. I am so discouraged. The woodpecker didn't turn out like a woodpecker worthy of display, neither did the hawk. My flight shots, problems. You name it, that problem.

    Was/am so discouraged.

    The one shot could be lightened, as I darkened it. Looked gorgeous on the LCD and through the viewfinder. But the bird, well, it might be a bit soft.

    Oh, there were night herons at sunset. Flying, in trees behind bare branches.

    So many chances, so much I saw, so little I captured. And I can't go back for a week.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    Very nice Ginger, nice reflections. Those in flight shots are difficult to get sharp, what was your shutter speed?
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  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    Both are really nice, love the second one.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    Rohirrim wrote:
    Very nice Ginger, nice reflections. Those in flight shots are difficult to get sharp, what was your shutter speed?

    I don't know what my shutter speed was, but I can tell you the ISO will be doubled next time I go. I did start with it too low.

    The light was constantly changing, I was checking the histogram every few seconds. I am totally confused now. After my bird hiatus, so to speak. Before I just underexposed them all, kept the ISO up and shot away. Before egrets were always EV -1 and Snowy Egrets were -1 1/3. Everything else like a great blue was grabbed in there between egrets. I have never tried to shoot a woodpecker before, have never seen one.

    This time I was so noise conscious, so "into" watching the histogram.

    That ISO is going to start at 400, even if it is noon, next time and climb on up to 32000.

    AAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHH. I am so tired I fell asleep twice at Barnes and Noble, never have done that before in my life! I would have gone out to get myself some birds, but I had to get home to the dogs.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    Thanks, Thusie, Thomas, too.

    Plus my ipod is broken..............

    g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2006
    I remember taking that photo. I had a very good lock on that bird, unusually good. The only cropping I did was to get him out of the center.

    The lock w the Canon set to servo, if it was (that was another thing I had to keep changing), but that lock should have worked. I do not see camera shake. The twig looks in focus.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2006
    Love the second shot Ginger. clap.gif
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