Julian Mole
12-11-2009, 06:30 PM
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I have been photographing more so called 'easy' subjects of late, 'Geese, Pigeons, Ducks, Gulls' just to get decent practice in without the frustrations of having a target bird constantly fly off whenever I try to get close/ closer to it!
At the local river all of the above mentioned birds are pretty easy to get nice and close to, and armed with a loaf of bread you can attract them anytime!
These gulls are some of my favourites, and provide plenty of opportunities for flight shots, they are so agile in flight that if you throw a bit of bread in the air (when feeding the ducks) rarely does it have chance to hit the ground or water!
Canon 20D, 400 5.6
Manual Mode
1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800
580 EX II + Better Beamer @ -1 FEC
Handheld
Cropped to about 70% area of original + also removed some small specular highlights from beak.
Am not sure if it might need a little bit of CW rotation? Or indeed some noise reduction on the bird itself? (Topaz Denoise seems pretty good at this without adversely harming the detail).
Please let me know your thoughts. :)
I have been photographing more so called 'easy' subjects of late, 'Geese, Pigeons, Ducks, Gulls' just to get decent practice in without the frustrations of having a target bird constantly fly off whenever I try to get close/ closer to it!
At the local river all of the above mentioned birds are pretty easy to get nice and close to, and armed with a loaf of bread you can attract them anytime!
These gulls are some of my favourites, and provide plenty of opportunities for flight shots, they are so agile in flight that if you throw a bit of bread in the air (when feeding the ducks) rarely does it have chance to hit the ground or water!
Canon 20D, 400 5.6
Manual Mode
1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800
580 EX II + Better Beamer @ -1 FEC
Handheld
Cropped to about 70% area of original + also removed some small specular highlights from beak.
Am not sure if it might need a little bit of CW rotation? Or indeed some noise reduction on the bird itself? (Topaz Denoise seems pretty good at this without adversely harming the detail).
Please let me know your thoughts. :)