Forums: Avian: Image Critiques

Just finally going back through files from the spring. This is my favorite of the bunches I have of this species. There was a single stick right on...

I captured this little guy last week on a high Sierra lake. I tried to get lower but the bank was steep and with water was deep! PP'ed with Nikon...

Spent 12 days in Ecuador last month - saw an amazing 65 species of hummingbirds. Found this one in the Pacific Lowlands near Porto Quito. I think the...

I spent most of yesterday photographing in Oak Hammock Marsh just north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. I was hoping for a lot more wading birds, but they...

Puerto Vallarta last winter. EOS 7D, EF300mm f/2.8 L IS + 2X, 1/400", F/8, ISO 160, Monopod. C & C encouraged.

Well, I don't agree with my own subject actually. Every image tells a story and this one says "I'm a young of the year Ring-necked Duck, learning to...

Practice, Practice, Practice Nikon 200-400mm @ 550mm 1/800 sec, f/8 Mode: Manual Metering: Spot ISO: 400 White balance: Auto

Tufted Puffin Workshop: St Paul Island, AK D3, 300, ISO 1250, 5.6, 1/1000. Hope you guys are not tired of my Puffin flight shots ;-)

Osprey at Dunedin Causeway, Florida 1/2000 at f6.3 and ISO 200 Canon 500mm plus 1.4 tc Canon 7D

Osceola County, Fl - 1D4, 500mm+1.4xTC, hand held from boat, 1/1000, F7.1, ISO 800, manual exposure I made this image of newly hatched Sandhill...

I was just about to leave this morning when a fellow photographer spotted one of St Marks NWR's famous winter residents. I can't believe they are...

Spent a bit of time this weekend in a local recreation park, where the first flocks of ducks have settled to prepare for their winter residence. I...

I generally post on ETL, and just trying this forum ..........Took this last year.....................some BG softening and foreground grass removal....

Nikon D2h 1/750 f 4 500mm ISO200 Kenya 2006 Thank you for looking. Copyright © 2010 Haim Ziv - WWW.BIRDS-PHOTOS.COM

Another from Jamaica Bay several weeks ago. C&C appreciated. D90 | 80-400 VR @ 400mm | ISO 640 | 1/2500s @ f/7.1 | -0.3 EV | HH (elbows braced in...

Some weird lighting as it was foggy but bright. Cropped from a horizontal frame, I had tracked these two in and of course just as they turned a...

The short-billed dowitcher is walking on the flats at Sachuest Marsh in Middletown RI. Nikon D300s Sigma 50-500 f8 1/2000 ISO 800. Adjusted in LR and...

Another one from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Both Artie and Denise were there that late afternoon and it was a pleasure meeting up with them. Canon...

I captured this a few weekends ago, at a small wetlands in Johannesburg. A lower angle wasnt possible. Canon 50D 100-400 @ 400mm 1/3200 F/5.6...

EOS-1D Mk IV, 500mm f/4 + 1,4xII, 1/400, f/5.6, ISO 1600 About 85% of Full Frame Removed a few specks of sand from the bill. This image was...

Hi all - Here's one from last weekend. I did have to clone out a bit of a foreground bird in the lower right, and also blended out a bit of the BG to...

Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina) Matcham Valley NSW Canon EOS 40D Lens 100-400mm L IS USM at 160mm ISO 500 F 5.0 1/1600 580EXII Flash 1 September...

Ruddy Turnstone at Dunedin Causeway, Florida 1/1250 at f5.1 and ISO500 Canon 500mm with 1.4 TC Canon 7D I often have trouble defining...

Canon 50D Canon 100-400L IS ISO 800 -0.67 Fill in flash -2.0 1/400 sec f7.1 Another shot from my garden hide. All C&C welcome.

Photographed 3 weeks ago at the mouth of Aptos Creek in Aptos, CA. Thanks in advance. JR Canon 40D, 500F4IS, 1.4TC, 700 mm, 1/1250, F7.1, ISO...

From this AM at the beach. Seems as if the storm didn't have any effect on the birds. The beach got hit hard but the normal residents are still here....

A Greater Yellowlegs from a while back. Not that with the bird in this pose, you pretty much have to include the reflection for the comp to be...

At Sunset in Plymouth MA Nikon D300s, 600VR, TC14EII, ISO 500, f6.3, 1/800, NearUniWB, CW Metering, +.7 EV

Canon 7D, 400mm DO plus 1.4x teleconverter, monopod ISO 800, f6.3, 1/400s

Mid-afternoon shot on the way home. Couldn't resist since he was letting me get close! Nikkor 200-400MM F4 Lens with a 1.4X t.c. Focal length...

Marbled Godwit at Dunedin Causeway, Florida 1/640 at f10 and ISO200 Canon 500mm Canon 7D

...deserves another. In this case another Forster's, also from Brigantine last Friday. Managed to capture this fellow nicely filling the frame in...

As promised, here's an image of Baird's Sandpiper sitting in the same puddle as yesterday's Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Canon Mark IV, Canon 500 f/4,...

Copyright © 2010 Haim Ziv - WWW.BIRDS-PHOTOS.COM One from my archive. Nikon D2x 500mm with 1.7 f6.7 1/1250 WH blind. Early morning light. ...

As the only images I had of flamingo's were older ones, I was happy to capture some a few weekends ago. This is a new birding spot for me, in one of...

I was watching a pair of young Eastern Kingbirds catching insects from a farmer's fence in Oxdrift, Ontario when one of them did something I've never...

I have seen these birds fight over real estate many times , but only for very short periods. These 2 went at it for a good 60 to 90 seconds , which...

Green Catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris) Matcham Valley NSW Canon EOS 40D Lens 100-400mm L IS USM at 400mm ISO 800 F 5.6 1/400 Fill Flash 1...

One of the most heard forest birds is this Willow Warbler, a small and vocal singer foraging in the higher canopy of the forest. He came down to the...

Canon 1d Mark III 1/1600 sec at f/7.1 ISO 800 EF 500mm Lens Manual Mode Hand Held Jamaica Bay NY

Osprey at Dunedin Causeway, Florida 1/2000 at f5.6 and ISO 200 Canon 500mm plus 1.4 TC Canon 7D

Beanbag Canon 50D Canon 100-400 mm LIS ISO 400 -0.3 1/640 sec f8 Another shot from the garden hide, all C&C welcome

Looks like the heron family is popular for this month's project! We've had posts of some in marshes, swamps, boreal forests, and now here's one at a...

Hi all, I am not exactly sure what kind of Redpoll this is, so I would welcome your suggestions. It was photographed inside the Arctic Circle in...

A young white stork in the very first light of the morning. This bird has been growing in a nest at the top of a cliff in the coast. The fantastic...

40D. 400f5.6L wide-open. iso 320. 1/1250s. evening light. This is very important shot for me as Tricolored is an ucommon bird here. Only a few...

>>> Well maybe.;) These birds provided so many great opportunities it will be hard to see them go. I think with the coming storm , we may not see...

With reference to my earlier post please comment on this head angle (Artie) Canon 1 D MARK II N 100-400 IS L F 5.6 SHUTTER SPEED 1/640...