Two Birdies.. Well one birdie and one fancy chicken?

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Two Birdies.. Well one birdie and one fancy chicken?

Postby Sir Tristram on Sun May 28, 2006 11:25 pm

I shot these over the weekend

Picture 1. I think I need to get my head around getting a correct depth of field as I think the left part of his plumage is soft. The lighting was really hard as he was in the undergrowth when I shot it.

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Picture 2. This is just about a full image with minimal amount of cropping. He was just about too close.

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Any suggestions on how these could have been better?
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Postby avkomp on Mon May 29, 2006 1:11 am

gotta get me one of those lenses!!

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Postby birddog114 on Mon May 29, 2006 7:56 am

John,

Any suggestions on how these could have been better?


My suggestion is:

Surrender that lens :shock: and geting the 70-300G :lol:
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Postby Sir Tristram on Mon May 29, 2006 8:32 am

Yeah I was thinking of dumping it and going back to the 70-300G as it clearly is not cutting it quality wise. And I know AVKOMP would give me a quick $500 for it too.
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Postby birddog114 on Mon May 29, 2006 8:33 am

Sir Tristram wrote:Yeah I was thinking of dumping it and going back to the 70-300G as it clearly is cutting it quality wise. And I know AVKOMP would give me a quick $500 for it too.


You're spoiled!
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Postby Sir Tristram on Mon May 29, 2006 8:39 am

Way too true. I might steal the bio of one of the other users " way too much gear, not enough talent" ;-)
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Postby NJ on Mon May 29, 2006 8:19 pm

#2 is amazingly sharp! can i ask what lens you used? love the composition as well.
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Postby Sir Tristram on Mon May 29, 2006 8:27 pm

Thanks for the comment. The lense was a Nikon 300mm AFS-II 2.8
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon May 29, 2006 8:51 pm

Beautiful stuff, my favourite is the 2nd one, I like the alert look in the birds eye.
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Postby Sir Tristram on Mon May 29, 2006 10:05 pm

Thanks Craig. I think that look should be called the " I mean business" look.
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Postby jethro on Mon May 29, 2006 10:53 pm

Geez No 2 is probably one of the sharpest images Ive seen on this site. Well done
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Postby Sir Tristram on Tue May 30, 2006 8:52 am

Thanks Jethro. :lol:
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Postby kipper on Tue May 30, 2006 8:44 pm

Lovely lens, will have to get a VR version of that one day :)
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Postby suzanneg on Tue May 30, 2006 8:56 pm

That owl eye is fantastic!
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Postby Sir Tristram on Tue May 30, 2006 9:51 pm

Thanks all for the feedback. Yeah I'd love a VR version but I first have to get those 6 numbers and the supplementary right. :roll:
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