Bird Portraits - Post Yours!

[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