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06/06/2005 12:42:31 AM · #1 |
I spent the past few days taking pics of birds...partly because they are there. Not easy. Even with a 300mm lens at 480mm equivalent.
this one got me started
And i got one of him in flight..very difficult
So i naturally go and shoot 100 bird pics...and most are just junk.
I got this one...
A bit noisy.
Lighting makes it tough - both for exposure and dynamic range. Too sunny and you lose, too dark and you lose, too much sky and you lose...and then you gotta get a good artistic pic to score well...
Is a dead chicken a bird, as far as this challenge goes? Perhaps an artistic shot of a McChicken sandwich, being eaten by a nude model...
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06/06/2005 12:45:46 AM · #2 |
| Birds? With so many birds in top finishers lately, I question the challenge topic. |
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06/06/2005 12:48:27 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by hyperfocal:
Birds? With so many birds in top finishers lately, I question the challenge topic. |
Puppies? Kittens? flowers? They don't generally finish well, and birds do.
I dare anyone to enter an "outside the box" shot of a 60's British Bird, ala Austin Powers.
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06/06/2005 12:50:51 AM · #4 |
One of many birds from last week :( Can anyone identify?
Message edited by author 2005-06-06 00:51:06.
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06/06/2005 12:54:25 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
I dare anyone to enter an "outside the box" shot of a 60's British Bird, ala Austin Powers. |
And risk the female wrath, no way. |
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06/06/2005 12:54:49 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by hyperfocal:
Birds? With so many birds in top finishers lately, I question the challenge topic. |
I think that's the whole point - people are a little sick of seeing so many damn birds - this way maybe people will get them out of their system :). |
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06/06/2005 12:56:44 AM · #7 |
I have two bird books. One has lousy illustrations, the other is igger and better, but i have not been able to figure out how it is arranged, so finding anything in it is useless. Same publisher too.
Nice pic. I can't get close enought to get that large an image, and my focus skills are lacking as well. (handholding a long lens near dusk might be a factor)
occasionally I get lucky (National Aviary back in january at a DPC GTG)
 
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06/06/2005 12:57:46 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
Can anyone identify? |
Black-crowned night heron. Here's a shot I took about 5 hours ago (it figures)...
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06/06/2005 01:05:58 AM · #9 |
So what is the secret to really good bird shots?
The 'tame' ones i shot at the Aviary are kind of easy..the wild ones are a real PITA.
If i had a feeder i suppose that would help some.
Since there are obviously gonna be lots of really good bird shots, what will it take to be a top finisher? Action perhaps?
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06/06/2005 01:08:19 AM · #10 |
| does anyone think that photographs of birds not easily photographed (birds of prey, exotic birds) would get a higher score than, you know, a seagull or a goose or a crow? just wondering. |
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06/06/2005 01:11:22 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by kmbr2001:
does anyone think that photographs of birds not easily photographed (birds of prey, exotic birds) would get a higher score than, you know, a seagull or a goose or a crow? just wondering. |
They would in my book.... but that is because I froze my tutu off last winter trying to get photos of some beautiful grey owls.. and I am now getting absolutely frustrated in trying to get some shots of a pair of very elusive ospreys...
Ray |
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06/06/2005 01:12:15 AM · #12 |
| I have a feeling a lot will depend on what is going on with the bird in the photograph, what action/behaviour is being depicted and how well is that done technically. It would seem a pretty bird on a branch will not take the bacon home on this one. I would settle for a pretty bird on a branch myself. |
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06/06/2005 01:12:33 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by kmbr2001:
does anyone think that photographs of birds not easily photographed (birds of prey, exotic birds) would get a higher score than, you know, a seagull or a goose or a crow? just wondering. |
I sure hope not, 'cuz seagulls is about all I have to work with, given my equipment. My shutter lag is so extreme on the 5700 that any sort of moving bird is out of the question, the lens isn't long enough for shy birds, the list goes on and on. But I'm good with gulls...
Robt.
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06/06/2005 01:13:44 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by rblanton:
I have a feeling a lot will depend on what is going on with the bird in the photograph, what action/behaviour is being depicted and how well is that done technically. It would seem a pretty bird on a branch will not take the bacon home on this one. I would settle for a pretty bird on a branch myself. |
There's always stuffed birds... maybe duck decoys? Or rubber duckies? jejejeâ„¢
Robt.
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06/06/2005 01:17:32 AM · #15 |
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06/06/2005 01:17:50 AM · #16 |
Good lord Robert.........now I'll have to look for something else to shoot... (mmmmmmmmm wonders if duck a l'orange would qualify...)
Ray |
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06/06/2005 01:19:17 AM · #17 |
| does anyone else call girls "birds" Not that i do, but i have heard them be called that. I dont personally like it, but it may make a interesting outside the box piccy |
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06/06/2005 01:21:11 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by lentil:
does anyone else call girls "birds" Not that i do, but i have heard them be called that. I dont personally like it, but it may make a interesting outside the box piccy |
Does the term "Old Crow" count in that definition....hehehehehe
Ray |
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06/06/2005 01:21:51 AM · #19 |
| Do these birds have to be from Earth, can they be..nevermind, said too much..Good luck in the challenge. |
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06/06/2005 01:21:59 AM · #20 |
A day to early
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06/06/2005 01:23:21 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by lentil:
does anyone else call girls "birds" Not that i do, but i have heard them be called that. I dont personally like it, but it may make a interesting outside the box piccy |
Does the term "Old Crow" count in that definition....hehehehehe
Ray |
LOL, oooh i could have fun with that one :) |
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06/06/2005 01:27:47 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Originally posted by rblanton:
I have a feeling a lot will depend on what is going on with the bird in the photograph, what action/behaviour is being depicted and how well is that done technically. It would seem a pretty bird on a branch will not take the bacon home on this one. I would settle for a pretty bird on a branch myself. |
There's always stuffed birds... maybe duck decoys? Or rubber duckies? jejejeâ„¢
Robt. |
I don't know why but I am reminded of an old Gary Larson cartoon of a circle of buzzards standing around something emitting fumes with the appropriate flys drawn in. One buzzard with his head up is saying to another... "whoooooooweeee thank God for ketchup". Maybe we should look for circling buzzards...
Message edited by author 2005-06-06 01:28:25. |
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06/06/2005 01:36:12 AM · #23 |
Anyone willing to try #8?
bird (bûrd)
n.
1. Any of the class Aves of warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered vertebrates with forelimbs modified to form wings.
2. Such an animal hunted as game.
3. Such an animal, especially a chicken or turkey, used as food: put the bird in the oven.
2. See clay pigeon.
3. Sports. See shuttlecock.
4. Slang. A rocket, guided missile, satellite, or airplane.
5. Slang. A person, especially one who is odd or remarkable: a sly old bird.
6. Chiefly British Slang. A young woman.
7. Slang.
1. A loud sound expressing disapproval; a raspberry.
2. Discharge from employment: lost a big sale and nearly got the bird.
8. An obscene gesture of anger, defiance, or derision made by pointing or jabbing the middle finger upward.
Message edited by author 2005-06-06 01:36:44.
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06/06/2005 01:38:12 AM · #24 |
Been there, done that, almost got a brown ribbon for it:
IN the challenge "emotion", and the emotion portrayed was irritation, for whatever that's worth. Irritating shot ain't it?
R.
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06/06/2005 02:14:26 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by lentil:
does anyone else call girls "birds" Not that i do, but i have heard them be called that. I dont personally like it, but it may make a interesting outside the box piccy |
Girls being called "birds" is more the English slang. But they're also called "chicks". (Chico Marx got his nickname for his preference for chasing them, though for some reason the "k" in his naem didn't stic.) (And there are also check-out chicks in supermarkets in Australia.) |
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