enough of this bird snobbery

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited April 24, 2005 in Wildlife
ok everyone. let's see your common, ordinary, dirty, nasty, mean winged rats... show us your pigeons, gulls, geese etc.. *no* egrets, hawks, eagles or any other bird allowed in this thread :lol anyhow, there's absolutely nothing wrong with shooting pigeons, seaguls, geese, etc. we all do it. it's ok. but - don't let the fact that they are common subjects let you get your photographic guard down - composition, proper use of light, exposure, all are still critically important.

on a grey day, i like to overexpose, this was at plus 1ec, and the result is the underside of the bird gets properly exposed, and a the sky goes white. i like the effect.
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another, same style, different day

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trying to incorporate added features into the shot helps. so does a cooperative subject :D

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i hate geese. they are really mean and always go after my kid. still, this one seemed ok enough, he enjoyed my 35 f/1.4...

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it's really fun to get a lot of them in one pic... it helps to have a five year old that you can bribe to kind of shoo them off, eh? for these types of shots, go for max depth of field, i had the camera on f/11 here, iso 800. i went for the hyperfocal distance, about five feet away from me, till nearly infinity.

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i do enjoy feeding them :eat

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but then, when the shooting's over, stay away from my chowdah! :eat
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enjoy (seagull) photography,
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Before there were apes - There were seagulls !!!




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    andy wrote:
    enjoy (seagull) photography,
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Nothin' more common then these.

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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    These are nice, especially:

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    I like the technique a lot. I'll have to try it. And I love the way you have caught this bird in flight in a nonstereotyped position. Very nice.

    It's a really good idea to overexpose. Shadow/highlight can recover a lot if you don't, and you might get some cloud detail on a day with puffy clouds. But it adds noise.

    You can also go ahead and overexpose on a clear day. I know a trick that can get the blue back in the sky pretty easily (no clouds, though). In fact I'll put blue in this sky if you want. Just ask.

    Oh, and I love the reverse snobism. Have to go shoot some pigeons.
    If not now, when?
  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Ahhh, the common bird..
    Got some today.

    Turkey Vulture
    100% crop. I had my 28-135 on board with no time to change it.

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    King of the pond
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    windoze wrote:
    Before there were apes - There were seagulls !!!
    troy
    Yal, I remember the weeks and weeks and weeks of ya gull pics.rolleyes1.gifDidn't mine them at all, they all were very nice.
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    gull
    ????? bif
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    rutt wrote:
    In fact I'll put blue in this sky if you want. Just ask.

    Oh, and I love the reverse snobism. Have to go shoot some pigeons.

    thanks rutt! sure, go ahead... make it so we can learn... love it....
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    I can't come close to matching these shots, but I can play.

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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    this one
    13181004-S.jpg this one of andy's and steve from today great gull shot how about that 2 in one day .I do remember this one from last year thumb.gif
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Here is another.


    ps: Dial up sucks, :):
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Last bird, for today.
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Was thre already some PS tomfoolery with the first bird? I tried my blue sky technique and what looked like brushstrokes showed up along the backedges of the wings and some of the feathers in the tail. Or am I imagining this?
    If not now, when?
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Dial Up Sucks ????
    What does that mean ? gtreat color and detail sam oh i mean head Jeff
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Sam wrote:
    Here is another.


    ps: Dial up sucks, :):

    Oh, man, I bet it does, esp. for a photography site. Bummer for you.
    Sid.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    Andy, what a great tip. I would never have thought of that, and yet it works so well in your hands. bowdown.gif Thanks! Lovely shots of birds. Me, I don't care what the species is. I don't shoot 'em much, so when I get a decent one I'm all aflutter.

    Rutt, I'm keen to see your blue sky effect.
    Sid.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    rutt wrote:
    Was thre already some PS tomfoolery with the first bird? I tried my blue sky technique and what looked like brushstrokes showed up along the backedges of the wings and some of the feathers in the tail. Or am I imagining this?

    well, itsa 16mp 1Ds Mark II file reduced to 100kb :D so there's bound to be something goin' on there...

    i jacked the whites up in curves i'm sure, rutt...but that was 2,374 pics ago hehehe
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    I have
    You guys are too good thumb.gifbowdown.gif
    Now I to gotta go shoot some these birdys too !! :D

    Yeah I have a plain old bird here:

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  • tmlphototmlphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,444 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    OK. I'll play. Mockingbird on a fence post. Doesn't get much more common.
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited April 2, 2005
    ok rat + real bird
    something to make the rats look good
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited April 3, 2005
    A Common Grackle...
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    And young spring Robin
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  • marlofmarlof Registered Users Posts: 1,833 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    Besides the McChicken, this is the closest I get to birds. I count a pigeon, four geese, a swan, and them causing the boat owner to need a cover...

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    enjoy being here while getting there
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    marlof wrote:
    Besides the McChicken, this is the closest I get to birds. I count a pigeon, four geese, a swan, and them causing the boat owner to need a cover...

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    That looks like a great peacful little inlet/harbor?? :D
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  • marlofmarlof Registered Users Posts: 1,833 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    bfjr wrote:
    That looks like a great peacful little inlet/harbor?? :D
    It sure is, in the town of Sesto Callende in the south point of the Lago Maggiore in Italy.
    enjoy being here while getting there
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    .

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  • marlofmarlof Registered Users Posts: 1,833 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    Gus, carpets don't count as birds. :D
    enjoy being here while getting there
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    marlof wrote:
    Gus, carpets don't count as birds. :D

    :lol
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,950 moderator
    edited April 3, 2005
    Here you go.

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  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    A few more
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    Geese BBIF's
    These snow geese were way up there circleing in a defensive formation,
    maybe 1000 feet? All I saw was white dots. There were two red tails
    also up there and when they left the geese formed v's and left.

    Both BIF & BBIF
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  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2005
    A boring blackbird shot.


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