Japanese Pheasants in the snow

Giphsub · January 6, 2008

Just back from 2 weeks up in the mountains in Hakuba (Nagano Winter Olympics 1998) More photos to come but for now, here are a couple of pics of a pair of pheasants in the snow. I blew the snow, but had to to get the darkness of the birds. Comments welcome.

Maestro · January 6, 2008

Gorgeous birds. Looks like tough shooting conditions with all that white, however, it really makes the colors of the pheasants stand out.

dbaker1221 · January 6, 2008

wow..they are colorful..

riddim_maker · January 6, 2008

You did good under tough circumstances Mike

Lovely birds! Thanks for sharing

Jack'll do · January 6, 2008

Love #3!

---> It's so hard to deal with the snow.

Giphsub · January 6, 2008

Maestro wrote:

Gorgeous birds. Looks like tough shooting conditions with all that white, however, it really makes the colors of the pheasants stand out.

Thanks Stephen. It does make the colours stand out doesn't it. They are actually quite dark to look at against the contrast of the bright snow, so I needed to go up about 1.3 I think to get those colours.

Giphsub · January 6, 2008

dbaker1221 wrote:

wow..they are colorful..

Thanks Dave. I was pretty stoked to have seen them. It's only the second time I have ever seen them in 10 years in Japan

Giphsub · January 6, 2008

riddim_maker wrote:

You did good under tough circumstances Mike
Lovely birds! Thanks for sharing

Thanks Russ. They were quite beautiful to watch wandering around in the snow for the few minutes they lingered.

Giphsub · January 6, 2008

Jack'll do wrote:

Love #3! ---> It's so hard to deal with the snow.

Thanks Jack!:D #3 is my favourite too.

jwear · January 6, 2008

welcome back and happy new year --I never shot that white stuff before

Giphsub · January 6, 2008

Thanks Jeff. Happy new year to you too, and to everyone! That white stuff actually aint so bad if that is what you are shooting, but when you get something dark to try and expose it can be a bugger!

PrescottPhotog · January 6, 2008

Giphsub wrote:

here are a couple of pics of a pair of pheasants in the snow. I blew the snow, but had to to get the darkness of the birds.

Hi Mike.. Welcome back. Your pheasants are much different than ours but both have lots of great color, these are really multi-colored. Good job capturing them with the white stuff behind.

Believe it or not but we are getting snow as I type. It looks like we will have a pretty good accumulation by morning (for us anyway), but nothing like you have there.

spechtal · January 6, 2008

Wow, really stunning birds! and really challenging conditions.

BigAl · January 6, 2008

Nice shots Mike!

You really did well with the lighting on the birds under the conditions (snow? what's that?

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Giphsub · January 7, 2008

PrescottPhotog wrote:

Hi Mike.. Welcome back. Your pheasants are much different than ours but both have lots of great color, these are really multi-colored. Good job capturing them with the white stuff behind.

Believe it or not but we are getting snow as I type. It looks like we will have a pretty good accumulation by morning (for us anyway), but nothing like you have there.

Thanks Chris. I'd be interested to see some pics of your pheasants if you have any. We had way too much snow! I spent a day digging out the cars at my mate's lodge!

Giphsub · January 7, 2008

spechtal wrote:

Wow, really stunning birds! and really challenging conditions.

Thanks for looking Angela

Giphsub · January 7, 2008

Thanks BigAl

I think my mate in Stellenbosch (sp??) said he has been snowboarding in SA. You nowhere near the snow?

Harryb · January 7, 2008

Those are terrific cptures.

Giphsub · January 7, 2008

Thanks Harry!