Bird Portraits - Post Yours!

[Jack Dawe]

Paradise Shelduck (female)

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Paradise Shelduck (female)
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What an odd looking bird: rich colours on the body with an all white head. Nicely captured, Jason.

 

[K9Kirk]

A snowy egret stalking its prey at Ft. De Soto.

032cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[fotoi]

Hamerkop

 

[Jack Dawe]

Black-headed Heron, South Africa

 

[A1original]

 

[K9Kirk]

732-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[fotoi]

Wood ducks

 

[K9Kirk]

A couple of double crested cormorants, taken at Robinson Preserve in Bradenton, FL.

043-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[Jack Dawe]

Jackdaw

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Grey heron shot with the Brenizer method. I was too close for him to fit in the frame and he was standing still the way herons can, so I just started taking a whole lot of pics of the bird in a circular movement, always making sure to keep the focus on the bird. The resulting image is pretty good I thought.

 

[fotoi]

Robin

 

[JohnPD]

Grey heron shot with the Brenizer method. I was too close for him to fit in the frame and he was standing still the way herons can, so I just started taking a whole lot of pics of the bird in a circular movement, always making sure to keep the focus on the bird. The resulting image is pretty good I thought.
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I looked up this Brenizer method. Interesting.

 

[Capn Jack]

Peacock
JAK_1022 by Jack Silver, on Flickr

 

[K9Kirk]

A great blue heron at Hidden Lagoon on North Beach, Ft De Soto. It looks like a juvenile.

208cv-studio by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[Jack Dawe]

Northern Giant Petrel

 

[K9Kirk]

Grey heron shot with the Brenizer method. I was too close for him to fit in the frame and he was standing still the way herons can, so I just started taking a whole lot of pics of the bird in a circular movement, always making sure to keep the focus on the bird. The resulting image is pretty good I thought.
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It came out very nice, Levina. I've never heard of that method before or tried stitching before, and I'm not sure if my software allows stitching, but it looks very interesting and very useful for when you can't get everything in the pic, or you intentionally wish to create the effect.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

It came out very nice, Levina. I've never heard of that method before or tried stitching before, and I'm not sure if my software allows stitching, but it looks very interesting and very useful for when you can't get everything in the pic, or you intentionally wish to create the effect.

It's a really nice method as it gives you a wide angle photo but with the kind of shallow depth of field that a normal wide angle lens simply doesn't have. Because the wider a lens, the greater the depth of field. So using a telephoto like a 300/4L you get that wide angle effect as well as very shallow depth of field. The image of the heron could not have been taken as a single shot with any lens.

 

[fotoi]

Hamerkop

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Hamerkop

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Let me guess: South Africa?