Catching Up

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited February 1, 2007 in Wildlife
Hi y'all,

Slowy but surely I'm catching up on my post processing backlog. Here's some recently processed shots from December.
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Pathfinder in action
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    wow, those are all gorgeous!!! for some reason, maybe coz im on a different monitor at work, these colors look SO VIVID and the sharpness cuts like a knife! are you using a new lens or are you post processing different - not to suggest that previous images didnt look great. THESE JUST LOOK SO AWESOME!


    troy
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    windoze wrote:
    wow, those are all gorgeous!!! for some reason, maybe coz im on a different monitor at work, these colors look SO VIVID and the sharpness cuts like a knife! are you using a new lens or are you post processing different - not to suggest that previous images didnt look great. THESE JUST LOOK SO AWESOME!


    troy

    Thanks Troy. Nothing really different, same cameras and lenses. The only change is that I'm doing less sharpening in my post workflow. I am being more critical on my shot selection in the field and on my PC. My Recycle Bin doth floweth over.
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  • FotoPhocusFotoPhocus Registered Users Posts: 28 Big grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Wow, that eagle shot is stunning. I love the contrast in color between the deep blue sky, and the colors on the bird. Well done!
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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Nice series Harry. thumb.gif Even included a shot of Jim using "proper" technique (tripod & shutter releas) That's a big arse lens he's got. eek7.gif Guess he must be shooting a great blue heron in Indiana. :D
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    FotoPhocus wrote:
    Wow, that eagle shot is stunning. I love the contrast in color between the deep blue sky, and the colors on the bird. Well done!

    Thanks, we got lucky down here and had the eagle posing every day at sunrise for us.
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  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    great shooting Harry.
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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Very nice shots as usual Harrybowdown.gifbowbowdown.gifbow

    Well as some of you may have seen on Good Morn America ...my little part of the Midwest {Wichita KS} is a Baldy convention right now (no pun intended Baldy), actually between the 2 parks with in a 1/4 mile of where I live ther were between 20 and 25 last weekend alone at the same time not counting what I presume to be a horde of Juviniles....However with all of 630mm (Sigma 70-210 f2.8 APO and a Sigma 2x APO EX converter + the 1.5 crop of my 7D) I can't get close enuff......


    Harry what do you use to get that close as in the 1st shot, are those always full framed shots (not as in full frome sensor) but as in not cropped shots???
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    .....Of course now I am having to fight with really stoopid people that think parking directly under the Baldy Trees and sitting smoking with with their little P/S and hoping they return is driving me nutz alsoooo....I even had some trying to stick their smoking head into my little blind (5 gal bucket for seat and 2 king sized flat sheet to cover me and poded camera), asking me what I was trying to hide from....now gotta wash the D@*# smkoe smell from everything...
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Nice series Harry. thumb.gif Even included a shot of Jim using "proper" technique (tripod & shutter releas) That's a big arse lens he's got. eek7.gif Guess he must be shooting a great blue heron in Indiana. :D

    Thanks Mike. PF was shooting his SDigma 300-800 in that shot. He was lucky it was a Canon mount. If it had been a Nikon mount only one of us would have left the swamp that day. naughty.gif
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Amazing! Wow! bowdown.gif
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Nice shots Harry! That hawk is *really* special.

    Judging from the straps on PF's camera and tripod, you had quite a wind blowing!
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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Harry you can't post anything else until after MI4, you are making me drool all over my keyboard. Why do those vultures keep following you around :hide.
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  • BIG BROTHERBIG BROTHER Registered Users Posts: 268 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2007
    Another fantastic series Harry clap.gifclap.gif

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2007
    dbaker1221 wrote:
    great shooting Harry.

    Thanks DB.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,958 moderator
    edited January 27, 2007
    Harry, Dozer's right. There is something different in these shots. The color
    has more pop, DOF is about the subject but not too deep. Crisp lookers.

    Harry, you're holding out your secret for these beautiful shots thumb.gif
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2007
    Very cool photos as always .
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2007
    Art Scott wrote:
    Very nice shots as usual Harrybowdown.gifbowbowdown.gifbow

    Well as some of you may have seen on Good Morn America ...my little part of the Midwest {Wichita KS} is a Baldy convention right now (no pun intended Baldy), actually between the 2 parks with in a 1/4 mile of where I live ther were between 20 and 25 last weekend alone at the same time not counting what I presume to be a horde of Juviniles....However with all of 630mm (Sigma 70-210 f2.8 APO and a Sigma 2x APO EX converter + the 1.5 crop of my 7D) I can't get close enuff......


    .....Of course now I am having to fight with really stoopid people that think parking directly under the Baldy Trees and sitting smoking with with their little P/S and hoping they return is driving me nutz alsoooo....I even had some trying to stick their smoking head into my little blind (5 gal bucket for seat and 2 king sized flat sheet to cover me and poded camera), asking me what I was trying to hide from....now gotta wash the D@*# smkoe smell from everything...

    Thank you very much Art. Its tough to get good eagle shots in the wild with only 210mm even with TCs. You'll need something between 300-400 at the very least.

    Folks always amaze me. I was shooting the eagle one day when some silly birder started to distarct me by telling that the accursed mask duck was up the road and I should be getting shots of the duck. :bash

    Don't even get me started on the P&S crowd. There's nothing I like better than to wait for a bit for an eagle to land and then have it spooked when the P&S folks come rushing up to the base of the tree and try to get shots with their pocket cameras and cell phone cameras. :rambo
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2007
    Nice stuff Harry thumb.gif

    But a PARROT !!! :wow rolleyes1.gif
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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    Thank you very much Art. Its tough to get good eagle shots in the wild with only 210mm even with TCs. You'll need something between 300-400 at the very least.

    Folks always amaze me. I was shooting the eagle one day when some silly birder started to distarct me by telling that the accursed mask duck was up the road and I should be getting shots of the duck. :bash

    Don't even get me started on the P&S crowd. There's nothing I like better than to wait for a bit for an eagle to land and then have it spooked when the P&S folks come rushing up to the base of the tree and try to get shots with their pocket cameras and cell phone cameras. :rambo

    Thanks for the advice Harry.....Looking at selling the Siggy 70 - 210 f2.8 and moving to the Siggy 170 - 500 that would give me 750 at the long end and with a 1.4 that would be just a tad over 1000mm and that should be good enuff for most wildlife here in Ks [with deer I can get with in 30 yrds or closer....birds are another matter :-) ] and if I shoot any portraits or weddings I still have my 24-70 / 2.8 to use for that........
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  • JohnDCJohnDC Registered Users Posts: 379 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2007
    Nice shots Harry. I especially like the contortionist pose and light on the great blue heron.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2007
    Maestro wrote:
    Amazing! Wow! bowdown.gif

    Thank you very much.
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited January 28, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    Thanks Mike. PF was shooting his Sigma 300-800 in that shot. He was lucky it was a Canon mount. If it had been a Nikon mount only one of us would have left the swamp that day. naughty.gif

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2007
    BigAl wrote:
    Nice shots Harry! That hawk is *really* special.

    Judging from the straps on PF's camera and tripod, you had quite a wind blowing!

    Thanks Al, I was pleased with how the red shouldered hawk came out. That wasn't wind, PF has a wind machine that he uses to make his shots more dramatic. biggrinbounce2.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2007
    gluwater wrote:
    Harry you can't post anything else until after MI4, you are making me drool all over my keyboard. Why do those vultures keep following you around :hide.

    Hey Nick,

    I can't help it if I live in bird central. I can't get away from them. I had a great egret and GBH in the stream behind my house today. I took a walk down my development's nature trail and I saw sandhills, wood storks, and limpkins.

    The vultures aren't stupid. They see me and say "just about 60, overweight, drinks too much, smokes. Hmm, sooner or later he's our's".
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2007
    BIG BROTHER wrote:
    Another fantastic series Harry clap.gifclap.gif

    _____
    Jim

    Thanks Jim wave.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2007
    ian408 wrote:
    Harry, Dozer's right. There is something different in these shots. The color
    has more pop, DOF is about the subject but not too deep. Crisp lookers.

    Harry, you're holding out your secret for these beautiful shots thumb.gif

    I ain't got no secret Ian. The only real change in what I'm doing is that I won't take the shot if the light's not right and if the shot isn't right after I take it I won't post process it.

    I'm lucky, I'm retired and I'm a 15 minute drive from the Viera Wetlands. If I wake up in the morning and the light is right I go on down and shoot for a bit. Most shooters don't have that option. I'm passing up eagle shots now when I don't like the light.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2007
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Very cool photos as always .

    Thank you Awais
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2007
    bfjr wrote:
    Nice stuff Harry thumb.gif

    But a PARROT !!! :wow rolleyes1.gif

    A macaw. please. At least this one doesn't live with me unlike some other folks I could talk about. :smack
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2007
    JohnDC wrote:
    Nice shots Harry. I especially like the contortionist pose and light on the great blue heron.

    Thanks John
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 29, 2007
    pathfinder wrote:
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    Your time is coming Harry..................

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    A macaw. please.

    Yep that's a Macaw headscratch.gif
    At least this one doesn't live with me unlike some other folks I could talk about. :smack

    And your point is ?? blbl.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
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