Bird Portraits - Post Yours!

[K9Kirk]

A shot of a snowy egret from last week. Rub-a-dub-dub!

226cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[pcs]

I was close in some instances. What I didn't have was a lot of pixels... That has now changed!

Maybe it's also to do with how the feathers are, I see a difference with different birds( see Robin vs Chaffinch)

 

[Jack Dawe]

A shot of a snowy egret from last week. Rub-a-dub-dub!

226cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

Great angle!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Maybe it's also to do with how the feathers are, I see a difference with different birds( see Robin vs Chaffinch)
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Yes, the way the feathers are is definitely part of it. It's much easier to get a ton of detail in a Robin but it's not so easy with a female chaffinch. A male chaffinch, no problem. But my shots of females just never look right.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Yes, the way the feathers are is definitely part of it. It's much easier to get a ton of detail in a Robin but it's not so easy with a female chaffinch. A male chaffinch, no problem. But my shots of females just never look right.

I’m out and shooting chaffinches. The females seem to have much improved! It’s very cold.

 

[pcs]

I’m out and shooting chaffinches. The females seem to have much improved! It’s very cold.

I'm back in the house, it's to cold! (and it's dull grey here)

 

[K9Kirk]

Maybe it's also to do with how the feathers are, I see a difference with different birds( see Robin vs Chaffinch)
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Those are some very nice, tight shots showing great detail and the light is very nice.
I've found that sometimes, if you reduce the 'percentage' rather than increase the 'pixels', it can make the sharpness of any detail appear sharper. Just saying. Good job getting close!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I'm back in the house, it's to cold! (and it's dull grey here)

I'm back home. I was out about an hour and a half. Sun was out, not abundantly, but enough to tempt me to go out. But it was really freezing cold! So yeah, I totally get that. When I stepped outside I almost turned back. I have chaffinches to share later!

 

[K9Kirk]

Wigeon hen

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Beautiful image, fotoi. I especially like the highlight work.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Beautiful image, fotoi. I especially like the highlight work.

Funny, I was just looking at it again. It really is a beautiful image. With a perfect exposure, bringing out all the shades in the bird.

 

[pcs]

Those are some very nice, tight shots showing great detail and the light is very nice.
I've found that sometimes, if you reduce the 'percentage' rather than increase the 'pixels', it can make the sharpness of any detail appear sharper. Just saying. Good job getting close!

Thank you, not sure what you're talking about, is that sharpening settings in LR/PS? I use DxO PR for denoising, lenscorrections and sharpening(usually set to 'soft') and C1Pro for the rest but with sharpening set to zero, only when exporting ('sharpening for export'). The cropped Chaffinch lacks a bit of sharpness, probably cropped to far.

In the garden I'm usually between 3-5 meters.

 

[fotoi]

Beautiful image, fotoi. I especially like the highlight work.

Thank you very much!

 

[fotoi]

Wood duck

 

[pcs]

I'm back home. I was out about an hour and a half. Sun was out, not abundantly, but enough to tempt me to go out. But it was really freezing cold! So yeah, I totally get that. When I stepped outside I almost turned back. I have chaffinches to share later!

Even the birds were cold, I quit after an hour.

 

[pcs]

And a (male) Chaffinch

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Even the birds were cold, I quit after an hour.

I wasn't out much longer, Patrick. It was really cold. And I had bad light, at least most of the time. Songbirds seem to always sit in a spot that gives me white sky or clutter of tree.

 

[K9Kirk]

Thank you, not sure what you're talking about, is that sharpening settings in LR/PS? I use DxO PR for denoising, lenscorrections and sharpening(usually set to 'soft') and C1Pro for the rest but with sharpening set to zero, only when exporting ('sharpening for export'). The cropped Chaffinch lacks a bit of sharpness, probably cropped to far.

In the garden I'm usually between 3-5 meters.

I use Topaz Studio 2. It's not a sharpening setting, just a picture size adjustment. You know how sharp pictures look on your cameras tiny screen? It's sort of mimicking that by reducing the percentage of a picture and making it smaller. Say, going from 100% down to 70% it makes it harder to spot any flaws. Give it a try.

 

[fotoi]

Mallard hen

 

[greatgrandma]

Flightless cormorant


One nesting one, the male was asking for her to mate and she wasn't having it. So he went down and got her some Sargasso weed and brought it back for the nest, and she rearranged it,

Flightless cormorant getting sargasso weed

Flightless cormorant hopping up the rocks carrying sargasso weed

Flightless cormorant nest
But she was still not into him

 

[fotoi]

Wigeon hen