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[Jack Dawe]

I'd say that's pretty good for 1/60th handheld. Nice, smooth water too.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Baltimore Oriole

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

An early morning shot of a snowy egret at the tidal pool on North Beach, Ft De Soto a few years back. Tough shot with low light, 158 mm, 1/60th and handheld. I know it's not the sharpest, but I was just pleased to capture the beautiful, morning light on the water.


123219-studio-252 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

Sharpness? Looks fine to me, Kirk. And I love the soft tones in this image.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Baltimore Oriole
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Beautiful shot of a beautiful bird, Jason.

 

[K9Kirk]

Sharpness? Looks fine to me, Kirk. And I love the soft tones in this image.

Thx, Levina. I used the wrong word. I said sharpness in place of detail. It just seems to be lacking detail from the lack of light, it explains the softness. What detail there is, is in focus and sharp.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Thx, Levina. I used the wrong word. I said sharpness in place of detail. It just seems to be lacking detail from the lack of light, it explains the softness. What detail there is, is in focus and sharp.

It's the light that gives that softness. But I think it fits the overall soft-toned quality of the image. It's nice.

 

[RichardB]

the lack of light,

It looks very dark to me. Given the condition I think you did really well. I like the image too.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Red Jungle Fowl. Wild and on my list!

 

[fotoi]

Wood duck

 

[fotoi]

Mallards

 

[K9Kirk]

I'd say that's pretty good for 1/60th handheld. Nice, smooth water too.

Thx! I don't recall, it's been so long ago, but knowing myself, I probably used the lens VR to help steady it and I did take a few dozen shots to get one decent one. The rest are trash.

 

[K9Kirk]

It looks very dark to me. Given the condition I think you did really well. I like the image too.

Thank you! Yes, the condition was a dark morning, so I think I captured it accurately. At least my histogram says so. I did experiment and expose it more, but all that did was make it brighter and noisier, as expected, so I just left it looking natural. Thx for commenting.

 

[K9Kirk]

Baltimore Oriole
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Beautiful birds, wish we had them.

 

[K9Kirk]

A great blue heron doing that zombie thing.

053 cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[RichardB]

A great blue heron doing that zombie thing.

053 cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

They always look so goofy when doing this. Nicely captured!

 

[Jack Dawe]

Tree Swallow

 

[Capn Jack]

Palm warbler

JAK_0452 by Jack Silver, on Flickr

 

[K9Kirk]

They always look so goofy when doing this. Nicely captured!

thx! Yeah, they always have that 'pie eyed' look like they're hypnotized or turning into zombies, lol!

 

[fotoi]

Wigeons

 

[JohnPD]

Wigeons

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Even the water is beautiful in this pic!