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Back to posting my favourite subjects - birds.

This little guy is called a Comb-crested Jacana or Lotus bird.

Cheers

Michael

nice shot.

sharp and well exposed.

Steve

Hey Michael - beautiful image. Taken on film?
I really like this image beautiful DOF, and eye perfectly in focus - the only thing detracting is the OOF flowerbuds in the foreground and the one behind, but that is only my opinion. Maybe a little cloning in PS just to tidy?
Again, beautiful
Rel

blacknstormy wrote:Hey Michael - beautiful image. Taken on film?
I really like this image beautiful DOF, and eye perfectly in focus - the only thing detracting is the OOF flowerbuds in the foreground and the one behind, but that is only my opinion. Maybe a little cloning in PS just to tidy?
Again, beautiful :)
Rel

Thanks Narelle - yes, it was taken using Velvia slide film. I agree with the OOF flowers in foreground/behind and will be easy-as to clone them out.

Thanks for the tip.

Steve - thanks also for comments

Cheers

Michael

Hey Michael, good to see I inspired you..

and What a pretty bird.. probably one of my favourite waterbirds...

Nice and sharp too.. well captured... keep posting more

Tim

G'day Michael,

You must be pleased with this one, it's come up a pearler... Yeah, I'd agree with the OOF flower buds in the foreground, but this image immediately caught my eye... The color seems very subtle and natural...

Nice capture...

Beautiful capture Michael,

right where the jacanas like to be

The background oof flowers don't really bother me, but as Rel mentioned, the foreground ones are a bit in the way.

Would you have recorded the exif data for this one?

thanks for sharing,

André

radar wrote:Would you have recorded the exif data for this one?

thanks for sharing,

André

Andre : By memory, I used an aperture of f8 on aperture priority and the lens was a 120-600mm zoom. Film was pushed to 200ASA. I was in a boat at the time and used a tripod pushed into the mud over the side for stability.

Cheers

Michael

Finch wrote:Andre : By memory, I used an aperture of f8 on aperture priority and the lens was a 120-600mm zoom. Film was pushed to 200ASA. I was in a boat at the time and used a tripod pushed into the mud over the side for stability.

Cheers

Michael

And I thought this was the shot you got when you were up to your armpits in crocs

Nice shot btw.

Slider wrote:

Finch wrote:Andre : By memory, I used an aperture of f8 on aperture priority and the lens was a 120-600mm zoom. Film was pushed to 200ASA. I was in a boat at the time and used a tripod pushed into the mud over the side for stability.

Cheers

Michael

And I thought this was the shot you got when you were up to your armpits in crocs :lol:

Nice shot btw. :D

Being upto my armpits with crocs was the previous morning.......

Macro,

Thanks for comments. I'm quite happy with this one but I'll certainly have a go at removing white flowers in foreground.

Cheers

Michael

A gorgeous image of a bird I often see at my campsite near the Mitchell River in the Gulf country of FNQ. I also agree about the OOF flower buds in the foreground Michael. Lovely depth of colours here. Typical Velvia
cheers
marco

It has been great to receive positive feedback about my jacana photo, with the suggestion to clone out the white flowers that were distracting. Mark (Slider) kindly sent me a version he did in Photoshop and agreed to let me post it.

What do you think?

Cheers

Michael

Pretty good cloning job. There's now a bit of noise and halo around the bird though. I like the colours from the original shot better.

Suzanne

The cloned version is more effective. A little too much saturation but its a lovely pic.

Great shot Mike. Wasn't this one published recently in your bird photography magazine article?

Manta wrote:Great shot Mike. Wasn't this one published recently in your bird photography magazine article?

Thanks, Simon.

Yes, it was on the last page of my article on bird photography techniques in last month's (March) issue of Australian Photography Magazine.

Cheers

Michael