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very nice harry,as always,but especially as you have captured a lot of behaviour and interaction.
by the way is there any formula that you use for exposure compensation other than guesstimations? i am having to over expose for my bats and 1EV is usually ok but sometimes too much...
Love pic #3. Excellent detail in plumage & white is striking.
Thanks Simone. Exposing for the egrets can be a challenge at times.
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Really nice Harry, you are certainlt blessed to have so many awesome opportunities, I like them all
Steve
I know how lucky i am Steve to have access to all these ops. Thanks for the kind words.
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You know, Harry, I was just "complaining" in another thread about how my 70-200 VR is an awesome lens, but comes up a tad short for birds. As in, I'm cropping them all and am just lucky that even with only 4mp, the color and sharpness on them is great. Apparently not so much of a problem for you, eh?
You smear fish guts on yourself, don't you?
Great set
Crop? The main problem at the rookery is the birds getting in too close
:lol4
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Harry, they are all nice as usual! But my ab faves are the first shot of the wood storks! Damn, wish I had taken it! I do love that shot!
ginger (yeah, they are pets down there............we have "wild birds" here.) They don't invite photographers to their party, and right now, or last week, it looked like a real hormone party on drugs!
I am actually lucky, too. It could be worse. Probably would still have birds, but I could be too cold, too something to be out there!
That is a great Wood Stork shot. Put it in your book!
Thanks Ginger. The wood storks are fun to shoot. I can't wait for their chicks to hatch.
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great shots ! Seems like a lot of 'activity' !! Those woodstorks - look like some 'cocoon' poster or something
Thanks Vandana. This is still quiet for the rookery. It should really get acrive in another month hwne the snowy and cattle egrets and tri-color herons come in and start nesting.
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Thanks Ginger. The wood storks are fun to shoot. I can't wait for their chicks to hatch.
OH my gosh, you are going to get the chicks! For some reason I don't remember them from last year, but then I don't think I settled on my love for the Wood Stork until summer sometime.
If you are going to keep the Wood Storks there, I would imagine that you are going to hang onto the chicks, too.
Maybe you could just send the gator farm here. Our snowys, the juveniles, they hung around Magnolia through the fall last year. Where do yours go when they leave, and when do they leave? I quit going to Magnolia in the winter as I was getting slews of birds here. I still could get them here, but they wouldn't be nesting.
I think the Wood Storks nest "here" somewhere, too. And by here, I do not mean close by. I have noticed articles about places where they mention that the Wood Storks nest there. More in Ace Basin (south of me) I think. And it might be a hike in, too. A major hike or a boat ride, I mean.
OH my gosh, you are going to get the chicks! For some reason I don't remember them from last year, but then I don't think I settled on my love for the Wood Stork until summer sometime.
If you are going to keep the Wood Storks there, I would imagine that you are going to hang onto the chicks, too.
Maybe you could just send the gator farm here. Our snowys, the juveniles, they hung around Magnolia through the fall last year. Where do yours go when they leave, and when do they leave? I quit going to Magnolia in the winter as I was getting slews of birds here. I still could get them here, but they wouldn't be nesting.
I think the Wood Storks nest "here" somewhere, too. And by here, I do not mean close by. I have noticed articles about places where they mention that the Wood Storks nest there. More in Ace Basin (south of me) I think. And it might be a hike in, too. A major hike or a boat ride, I mean.
ginger
Hey Ginger,
Here's a shot of the wood stork "family" from last year
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ginger (I think those birds are so beautiful. I guess there is "someone" for "everyone", so to speak.)
You should enter those somewhere. ARe there many Wood Storks entered in things? If everyone thinks they are ugly, they might be an unusual photograph, too.
very nice harry,as always,but especially as you have captured a lot of behaviour and interaction.
by the way is there any formula that you use for exposure compensation other than guesstimations? i am having to over expose for my bats and 1EV is usually ok but sometimes too much...
Thanks, I was trying to get interaction shots as much as I could. I find them much More interesting than the "bird as a statue" type of shot.
There's no real formula for exposure compensation on these shots. The best teacher is experience. On these shots I went from 0 adjustment to -1.0. The shots above the trees were at -1.0 (they were in more of the direct light) and the shots against the trees were at lower adjustments.
The egrets in the other tree were in a harsher light and the few shots I took there required adjustments of -1.3 and -1.7. With your bats you would be making positive adjustments because they would be usually darker than their backgrounds.
Once you done it a bunch of times you will find yourself nailing the adjustment most of the time.
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Great shots there, but that is one FUGLY bird. I think I saw it on Jurassic Park III. I'm sure of it.
Thanks SH and scientists do say the birds are descendants of the dinosaurs.
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Great series Mr B - really nice lighting you got on them. (not to mention that they are super sharp too!)
Thanks Al. The lighting was just super that day.
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very nice harry,as always,but especially as you have captured a lot of behaviour and interaction.
by the way is there any formula that you use for exposure compensation other than guesstimations? i am having to over expose for my bats and 1EV is usually ok but sometimes too much...
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Great shots there, but that is one FUGLY bird. I think I saw it on Jurassic Park III. I'm sure of it.
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Thanks Simone. Exposing for the egrets can be a challenge at times.
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I know how lucky i am Steve to have access to all these ops. Thanks for the kind words.
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
Crop? The main problem at the rookery is the birds getting in too close
:lol4
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ginger
Thanks Ginger. The wood storks are fun to shoot. I can't wait for their chicks to hatch.
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Thanks Vandana. This is still quiet for the rookery. It should really get acrive in another month hwne the snowy and cattle egrets and tri-color herons come in and start nesting.
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
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OH my gosh, you are going to get the chicks! For some reason I don't remember them from last year, but then I don't think I settled on my love for the Wood Stork until summer sometime.
If you are going to keep the Wood Storks there, I would imagine that you are going to hang onto the chicks, too.
Maybe you could just send the gator farm here. Our snowys, the juveniles, they hung around Magnolia through the fall last year. Where do yours go when they leave, and when do they leave? I quit going to Magnolia in the winter as I was getting slews of birds here. I still could get them here, but they wouldn't be nesting.
I think the Wood Storks nest "here" somewhere, too. And by here, I do not mean close by. I have noticed articles about places where they mention that the Wood Storks nest there. More in Ace Basin (south of me) I think. And it might be a hike in, too. A major hike or a boat ride, I mean.
ginger
Hey Ginger,
Here's a shot of the wood stork "family" from last year
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
ginger (I think those birds are so beautiful. I guess there is "someone" for "everyone", so to speak.)
You should enter those somewhere. ARe there many Wood Storks entered in things? If everyone thinks they are ugly, they might be an unusual photograph, too.
Thanks, I was trying to get interaction shots as much as I could. I find them much More interesting than the "bird as a statue" type of shot.
There's no real formula for exposure compensation on these shots. The best teacher is experience. On these shots I went from 0 adjustment to -1.0. The shots above the trees were at -1.0 (they were in more of the direct light) and the shots against the trees were at lower adjustments.
The egrets in the other tree were in a harsher light and the few shots I took there required adjustments of -1.3 and -1.7. With your bats you would be making positive adjustments because they would be usually darker than their backgrounds.
Once you done it a bunch of times you will find yourself nailing the adjustment most of the time.
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
Thanks SH and scientists do say the birds are descendants of the dinosaurs.
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
Thanks Al. The lighting was just super that day.
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How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"