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Some more from WTP (Kippers POV)

Postby kipper on Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:49 am

Mostly only the raptors I've had time to review. Will review my wader shots tomorrow.

Equip Used: D70, 500F4, TC1.4, SB800, Gitzo G1325 + Wimberley

Mixture of birds of prey: black kites, whistling kites, australian hobby and a brown falcon

The black kite appears to be in moult.


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Postby gunn parker on Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:06 am

These pics are, are, are, unreal
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Postby BBJ on Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:21 am

Darryl, mate these bidies are great all great pics i still dont knot how how you do it but yeh i know we will miss these for awhile when you leave us.
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Postby Oneputt on Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:49 am

Darryl there are some absolute beauties there :D Lovely work.
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Postby fozzie on Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:29 am

Darryl - you have well and truly used your last trip for a while to 'WTP' extremely well. Look forward with great interest to your waders.
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Postby MCWB on Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:20 am

Sensational pics Darryl, wonderful stuff!
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:21 am

Great shots Darryl, the last few looks like they were under difficult lighting conditions. Can I ask (touching on another active thread) has much if any PP been done to these shots ?

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Postby wendellt on Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:26 am

That;s skillfull work darryl
I know how hard it is just shooting slow moving objects
the best oen compositionally is the 3rd and 2nd last
I also noticed the desaturated tone of the sky which comopliments the subtle colours of the bird, nothing more annoying than a deeply polarized sky contrastign a beautiful bird with such colours

i had no idea the sb800 could reach that far
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Postby antman on Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:48 am

You've done well to capture these shots. I appreciate how hard it can be and how patient you need to be to get these quailty shots. Congrats.
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Postby Mal on Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:28 pm

Beautiful, simply beautiful. Thanks for capturing some stunning pictures of these wonderful birds. The only chance some of us will get to see them in such detail
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Postby LIVE4EVA on Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:32 pm

Top Shots Darryl, Number 11 is absolute magic for me, Sharp as with it looking back like that, brilliant.
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Postby kipper on Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:46 pm

1,2,4 had some clone tool done (haven't really figured out the heal tool) to reduce some of the blown highlights / loss plumage detail that were coming through around the head and tail (on 4).

11 I did some cloning to remove distracting branches behind the bird.

All the photos have been processed using Adobe CameraRaw (no Nikon Capture), cropped, shadow/highlight tool, and contrast reduction. I think one of the photos I even applied noise reduction to due to the harsh lighting.
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Postby Glen on Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:49 pm

Darryl, as always excellent work on the birds
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