More Birds and such from today.

GraphyFotoz

Took these at the Nature Center this morning.
New 80-400mm works pretty good.....still getting used to it.

What Warbler is the 1st one? :scratch BlackBurnian?

What Sparrow is the 2nd? :scratch Juv Field Sparrow?

So many similar spiecies that I have trouble....STILL!! :rolleyes






Coupla Flower shots done with this big monster....actually came out pretty good for a non macro super zoom lens!

20% Crop



As taken

Awais Yaqub

beautiful photos i am loving your new lens

GraphyFotoz

Awais Yaqub wrote:

beautiful photos i am loving your new lens

Thanx!
Me too!!

Dick on Aruba

Having fun with your new lens?
Nice captures.

Thanks for sharing.

Dick.

dbaker1221

very nice

douglas

Great shots, #1 is my fav, love the DOF

raptorcaptor

Nice series! Like the warbler shot!

GraphyFotoz

Thanx Guys!
Jury is still out as to which Warbler that is?

Dunno if I like shooting all my shots in RAW?
That's what I did all day.
PP is a pain cuz I'm not that familiar with RAW tweakage.
That 1st "Warbler" shot was a lil noisey so I ran it threw Noise Ninja plug-in.
Then I selectivly re-noised the bird. Came out real nice!
Did the same with the 2nd bird as well but re-noised the bird and the branch he is on
and the bigger tree directly behind him.
Pwwwwey I'll go back to shooting JPG....I know how to mess with those!:D

raptorcaptor

GraphyFotoz wrote:

Thanx Guys!
Jury is still out as to which Warbler that is?

Dunno if I like shooting all my shots in RAW?
That's what I did all day.
PP is a pain cuz I'm not that familiar with RAW tweakage.
That 1st "Warbler" shot was a lil noisey so I ran it threw Noise Ninja plug-in.
Then I selectivly re-noised the bird. Came out real nice!
Did the same with the 2nd bird as well but re-noised the bird and the branch he is on
and the bigger tree directly behind him.
Pwwwwey I'll go back to shooting JPG....I know how to mess with those!:D

Not sure what warbler that is either! You might want to just convert your raw files into jpeg, and then do PP on them. That way you will have the raw files once you get more comfortable with the tools! Just a thought

ian408

While these shots are all crisp and the backgrounds reasonably nice,
they all suffer the same problem. THe bird's chest is OE. Same with
the white flower. A lot of detail is lost when the bird/subject is OE.

Ian

GraphyFotoz

raptorcaptor wrote:

Not sure what warbler that is either! You might want to just convert your raw files into jpeg, and then do PP on them. That way you will have the raw files once you get more comfortable with the tools! Just a thought

One step ahead of ya!

GraphyFotoz

ian408 wrote:

While these shots are all crisp and the backgrounds reasonably nice,
they all suffer the same problem. THe bird's chest is OE. Same with
the white flower. A lot of detail is lost when the bird/subject is OE.

Ian

Just got this lens Friday so I'm still getting used to it.
Practice....practice.....still working at it!

ian408

GraphyFotoz wrote:

Just got this lens Friday so I'm still getting used to it.
Practice....practice.....still working at it!

I think you have the lens down with regard to handling it and framing the
shot but exposure is exposure regardless of the lens.

gus

GraphyFotoz wrote:

Just got this lens Friday so I'm still getting used to it.
Practice....practice.....still working at it!

Just stick with harry & get all the advice you can from him. He has the runs on the board with long lenses & birds...im sure he has endless tips to pass on to you mate.

GraphyFotoz

gus wrote:

Just stick with harry & get all the advice you can from him. He has the runs on the board with long lenses & birds...im sure he has endless tips to pass on to you mate.

Yup yup!
He has been crackin the whip and keeping me motivated.
My PP was my problem.
If you look in my GBH/Egret thread you'll see the VAST improvement already Gus!

Now I can make some REAL pics out of my RAW images.