[Des]

Back at my favourite little watering hole today - a cooperative juvenile Green Heron.

Another fine capture Steven. The stealthiness of herons and egrets always helps.

I'm with Luftluss about the lily pad. It's a pleasant background and you got good light on the heron for good detail. If you want to unsee it, you could try using a mask to select the yellowish patch under the bill and desaturate it a bit, just to make the bill and cere stand out a little more. But really it doesn't matter.

Two with the FA*300 f4.5 and a little fill flash.

Bertrand, our resident Grey Shrike-thrush (with the K-3).


Red-browed Finch (with the KP)

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[riseform]

White-headed woodpecker and Steller's Jay stare down
K1 DA 560

[aslyfox]

. . . So for that second shot, how many of you would have done a little post-production to remove that out-of-focus lily pad and reflection from behind the bird's bill? Maybe I should have just moved a foot to one side to avoid that!

regarding the lilly pad

just a part of the bokeh to me

if I had noticed it at the time I might had tried an additional photo at a slightly different angle but as you realize, these " models " are not that comfortable following directions and might even get mad and fly off in a huff if you do issue directions or even change position for a different angle.

at least that has been my experience

[jacamar]

m with Luftluss about the lily pad.

just a part of the bokeh to me

Thanks for the input - I just thought that this one was near the boundary between "a bit of cleaning up" and something more radical, I'm interested in your responses, but I'm sure there are others who are keen to minimize distractions..

Agree with Des that provided you stay quiet and let them come close, it's much easier to photograph a heron than, say, a warbler.

I wouldn't change the look of the bird other than to try and re-create what I saw. Rarely I might lift the eye just a little if the face looks really blank - but I don't add catchlights. I learned my lesson once when I was about to erase a white spot in front of a Kingfisher's eye thinking it was a stray fish scale or something, then I checked the field guide and found it was supposed to be there!

[aslyfox]

cub resting, mother moving off

K 3 + HD PENTAX-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE

[Des]

Merino lambs in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. K-3 + FA*300 f4.5

Snack time


The comfort of a woollen pillow.

[WPRESTO]

Scan, so no EXIF nor memory of the lens used, but probably a Sigma 300mm f4 APO Macro.

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[aslyfox]

as requested by paulh who saw the bw version here:

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/26-mini-challenges-games-photo-stories/8...ml#post4712363

and wondered if there was one in color

there wasn't but I recropped and pp the original and think I got close to the BW photo

leopard cub under branch in color

[riseform]

Male and female white-headed woodpeckers from the weekend. K1 DA 560
It's been a treat to have them around this year as they're not always present.
They're regularly visiting a birdbath on our deck as well.

[luftfluss]

Scan, so no EXIF nor memory of the lens used, but probably a Sigma 300mm f4 APO Macro.

Just wanted to say I greatly enjoy the wildlife posts from your film daze.

[WPRESTO]

Just wanted to say I greatly enjoy the wildlife posts from your film daze.

Thanks and very glad you're enjoying them. I have over 100,000 chromes/slides maybe 40,000 color negatives, plus a smaller number of B&W negatives. Now and then I have a batch scanned, as I did recently for about 950 chromes. Even getting that many selected, counted and prepared to be scanned takes several to many days. I doubt I'll ever get more than a small handful of the negatives scanned.

[str8talk83]

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[WPRESTO]

That's an impressive group

[goatsNdonkey]

That's an impressive group

As the saying goes, one good Tern deserves another.

[marcusBMG]

Wood (? green) sandpiper from last month, darter last week.