My guess is a northern flicker.Originally Posted by Nonda Surratt
My guess is a northern flicker.
This one makes my snow goose look well exposed!!! ;)
baby oriole? nonda?
Fledge Rob:-) ya'all didn't squint hard enough
Ooops ! :o:o
OK then - here's one with no concern for many things we strive to pay attention to....e.g. when not to press the shutter
Cheers, :D
Bruce
This thread is hilarious, a great idea! I can identify with every single thing said so far!! And Mike, don't give up, it's taken me a long time just to get where I am now and I still have very far to go. Even though I can see progress, I still get so discouraged every few months to the point of considering dropping the whole photography hobby! But slowly, there are more keepers (for me) and fewer really dumb mistakes, ha! It's great to see and hear about others' mistakes. One of mine for a few weeks was to be so eager to try and get the shot that I'd forget to even check exposure....and would often get either totally dark or totally blown out images, to my great disgust! Miss enough opportunities from the same mistake and you learn not to make that one anymore!
Sorry, accidental repeat....
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Outside of making us all feel a little better about our painful (digital) photographic beginnings, it has also been the catalyst for me to get my images sorted---including sorting the 'old' ones in light of newer images.
Nonda, thanks for starting this thread.
Gail
Bruce that is one great pose for the RW BB !!!! about the only thing not messed up was the color balance !!! Love this thread !!! :)
I love it Bruce a truly superior bird backside, however a true BB (bird butt) image would have been better, great feet:D
Gail your welcome, this is one fantastic group!!!!
.... I need to start remembering all these abbreviations BB .... :eek::cool:
Thanks for the laugh
Hey guys, thanks for the laugh..... makes us newbies feel a LOT better. I started in March and was really starting to get discouraged especially that darn exposure. Also when I get advice and I don't know what the heck they are talking about - feel like a real dumbie!!!:eek: Now I'll definitely keep plodding along:D:D
Jeni - I know what you mean about feeling dumb when someone gives you advice and you haven't got a clue what they've just said!!!! Don't worry - as your peripheral knowledge improves so will your self esteem...
At least the advice is often given over the net so they can't see the deer in the headlights look, one I have often (DITHL Alfred):D
So right now I'm going thought the nothing suits me image thing. They are in focus, exposure is fine I just don't like them. I've tried different looks and approaches to the same things and still blah!
Maybe need a change of scenery? New husband, new house? What do you all do?
Nonda you described THE look perfectly!!! :-) I take comfort in the fact that at least I've always pointed the camera the right way.....(sorry Dan) :-)
This was last week-end :o:o:o
Nighthawk, never seen one before. I meant to dial +7 in a hurry, unfortunately emotions made me dial the wrong way.
So not only a dot in the frame, but heavily under-exposed and smack in the middle :eek::eek::cool::p
Not proud of that one!
What I mean is that we all screw up once in a while, part of the game. Didn't get anything I'm proud of in two photo sessions. Part of the game too, so don't you dare get discouraged!!!!
LOL Nonda! You crack me up. I think that your images are great btw. But I know exactly how you feel.
When I get in that mode the first thing I do is go visit my mother in law. Seriously. She makes me appreciate how sane I really am. :eek:
Next I send the man on a week long job. He's out of my hair for a week. And if I'm lucky it's summer time and he takes my daughter with him. Then....calgon take me away. I take a long relaxing bath and read a good photography book or magazine. And presto. I've regained my composure and I can look at my pics and appreciate them again.
Good luck.
Sharna
Nonda - know eactly what you mean - the last one I posted of the black shouldered kite - I had ummm'd and ahhh'd over posting that for weeks.
Currently when I go take some photo's I never look at them the same day - I always give it a couple of days and then go through them and have a look - Just seem to close to them the same day there are taken.
I think we are are own worst critics sometimes :)
Oh Fabs, darn! They are really cool birds and fly around here all the time, not even close to a half way decent image yet and I've certainly had more than one opportunity.
Sharna, Lance thanks!!!
Here's one from me. I had to just put a copyright on it so no one steals it! :p
hey george!! i think you can buy a head for your bird from al!! he's setting up a store for bird parts and i think he has one in stock!!!:D:D:D:p
My early mistake was not finding Artie sooner :)
The first shot was before Artie arrived in Cleveland in 2006 to talk at our
annual Wood Duck Festival.
At the Festival one of the things Artie talked about was getting low.
The second shot was a result of listening.
Doug
I do like the low pov in the second but also like the first mallard too... One thing about editing early bird shots I mostly deleted everything... once I had a better picture... with landscape and other subjects I didn't do this but with birds when I finally realized what was good and what wasn't it was easy to make decisions of delete everything.
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