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Posts: 1998 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2012 at 03:52
Originally posted by dongoroz dongoroz wrote:


The Original ...water is still a little muddy ...:)

Hey, I have a pair of Carolinas in my back garden. They don't look quite as good as these though as sadly the chickens in with them tend to walk on them. Poor little things. They are as happy as pie though.
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Lovely bird...
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Posts: 200 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2012 at 05:56
Thanks John...Yes those wood ducks have amazing colors...I'm glad you have some home.
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Posts: 633 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2012 at 08:15
Winter grasses reflected with early morning light provided some brilliant colors







Funny, what you in Europe call a Robin is totally different than ours, though our red red robins do come a bob bob bobbing as well ;-)



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Posts: 1014 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2012 at 08:27
James

Love the colours and reflections in the first two photographs. Our robin is soooo different! What settings did you have for that last picture to get that effect?

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Posts: 1915 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2012 at 09:33
james , nice serie

the last one is superb
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Nice set James.

What are the birds in the 2nd and 3rd photos?
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Thanks for the nice comments.

Hols53, the settings were iso 800, f18, 1/1250 at 180mm. Below is a better shot of the American Robin. They don't even look related to yours, huh?

Russellsbags, the bird in #2 is a Black Crowned Night Heron, pretty much year round residents here. The bird in #3 is a White Crowned Sparrow.
Just for fun.

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Posts: 1014 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2012 at 17:55
Hi James

To get that silhouette effect did you under or over expose the photograph?

Lovely effect.

Prefer your second image of Mr Redbreast - lovely pic.

My pics I posted of Jenny Wren where sooooo much more difficult to get than the robin I posted - the challenge is getting the best pic for particular species I guess.

Thanks for that

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From my chilly day at the lake here are three pictures of birds "doing things".

Blue tit flitting and coots racing - hope you like.

Graham

1 Blue tit flitting from tree to tree



Sony A77 + 70-400G
Shutter speed 1/4000 Aperture F5.6
Focal length 400mm ISO 640

When photograph was taken the sun appeared through a cold haze. The sky suddenly became blue through the cold air. Photograph cropped about 50%

2 Coots racing



Sony A77 + 70-400G
Shutter speed 1/3200 Aperture F6.3
Focal length 400mm ISO 500

At time a cold haze came over the lake which gave a very "murky" light. The coots were about 100 yards onto the lake. Photograph cropped about 33%.

3 And in the lead ...........



same descriptors as (2)
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james , another great picture of you
graham nice flying tit

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Hols52. Focus on the bird, expose for the sky. Really not difficult. The camera naturally wants to do that anyway. Exposure compensation was set at +.3 which is where I normally set it. Just a touch of structure added in the sky with Color Efex.
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Posts: 1472 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2012 at 23:52
Very nice dongoroz

Rather a patient tit taken with a short lens :).





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Male Red-Backed Fairy Wren

Forest Kingfisher
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