Kingfisher

StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
edited January 27, 2005 in Wildlife
I went out today to find a shot of a bird... The colour is a little rich but there was another photog in the hide with a mirror, the back view was good on the right hand shot, but the front view was totaly over the top. To get the backgrounds to match would have left the chest detail blown orange on the left hand shot. take a look at his site http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/birdphotos/index.htm


Anyway, my daughter wanted a triptych of a sunflower I took last autumn, taken down, and these three put up in there place, excuse the babkground, I was trying to subdue the colours. They are not as bad at 7 x 5 inch


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  • LouBuonomoLouBuonomo Registered Users Posts: 77 Big grins
    edited January 26, 2005
    Killer stuff Stan..

    Lou
    Member of http://www.nwpli.com
  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited January 27, 2005
    Stan,

    Love the colors. It reminds me of my old Sony 707. Great contrast and sharpness combined with knock yer socks off color thumb.gif

    Good work clap.gif and thanks for sharing,
    Steve
    SmugMug Support Hero
  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    Steve Cavigliano wrote:
    Stan,

    Love the colors. It reminds me of my old Sony 707. Great contrast and sharpness combined with knock yer socks off color thumb.gif

    Good work clap.gif and thanks for sharing,
    Steve

    This is the right hand shot

    [PHP]Killer stuff Stan..

    Lou[/PHP]
    I've see you on Photomigration, Very impressive work on there
    Stan.smugmug.com
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    Thats great colour stan & nice bokeh that shows the colour & bird well.

    I have heaps of them all around me & cant get them until i take the 'glass' leap of death. I live right on a large river & they breed & nest around me.

    Wav file of our biggest Kingfishers that get together outside my bedroom window at 4am.

    Imagine about 10 of them after a late night.

    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/sounds/birds/kookaburra.au






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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    Yikes, what a racket.....
    http://dehmphoto.smugmug.com/

  • LouBuonomoLouBuonomo Registered Users Posts: 77 Big grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    Stan,

    Wonderful stuff... Yeah I hang at PM and at NSN also. I've learned a lot on thoses sites. What name do you use over there ?


    Cheers,
    Lou
    Member of http://www.nwpli.com
  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Thats great colour stan & nice bokeh that shows the colour & bird well.

    I have heaps of them all around me & cant get them until i take the 'glass' leap of death. I live right on a large river & they breed & nest around me.

    Wav file of our biggest Kingfishers that get together outside my bedroom window at 4am.

    Imagine about 10 of them after a late night.

    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/sounds/birds/kookaburra.au








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    Thanks Humungus. I get Barn Owls at night but I'm not sure about photographing them at night, they are protected and cannot be disturbed or something.

    Good luck with the 'Quest For L'. That shot was with a 100-400 is L. on Saturday I get a second hand 28-70 F/2.8 L, I cannot afford a new 24-70
    Stan.smugmug.com
  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    LouBuonomo wrote:
    Stan,

    Wonderful stuff... Yeah I hang at PM and at NSN also. I've learned a lot on thoses sites. What name do you use over there ?


    Cheers,
    Lou
    I lurk never post, that site is out of my league :D
    Stan.smugmug.com
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    Stan wrote:
    I lurk never post, that site is out of my league :D
    oh sure...go ahead and hang with the rest of us hacks. rolleyes1.gif





    lol3.gif


    :uhoh
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2005
    fish wrote:
    oh sure...go ahead and hang with the rest of us hacks. rolleyes1.gif





    lol3.gif


    :uhoh

    Oops i meant the amount of kit they carry, it's all 600mm lenses and expensive tripods and heads, stuff to make you envious. But yeah, I perfer to hang with the hacks :D

    After the Kingfisher had gone' a guy came into the hide with all the latest gear, when he brought out the Better Beamer, I decided that was time to go home headscratch.gif
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  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited January 27, 2005
    fish wrote:
    oh sure...go ahead and hang with the rest of us hacks. rolleyes1.gif

    lol3.gif

    :uhoh
    Hey!! I resemble that remark nod.gifeek7.gif :lol


    No offense taken Stan mwink.gif Dat Big Shark is really a Clownfish rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif


    Steve
    SmugMug Support Hero
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