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01-31-2011, 08:36 AM   #1411
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You were laughing so hard you were unable to properly type the last word in the sentence?

Damn.

I always wreck the punch line on jokes too.

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Thought I had witnessed most silly things birds could do but never heard of agressive Quail
I Had its soybeans,it wanted em NOW, dodged eagles,harriers,kestrels,red tails
name a raptor,little guy just threw caution in wind,might of had faulty "sensor" in head.
Dont think I look like a quail,except maybe to a pentax vendor.Looks like Tom's got the M400/5.6
goiing,now thats a downy,Got rid of my M400,along with some other
stuff,picked up a 1D,and little glass from the other guys.Skog,have my shots on
Artic and common loons,Red-throated variety isnt it?.
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Wow, you guys have been busy over the last few days! Lots of great shots as usual.

Here's my contribution, not up to the standards here but when you have no talent you take what you can get.

Snipe


Mandarin duck (some motion blur around the head)
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Spyder,

You are too modest. These are great.

Which lens did you use?

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Agree with Tom - lovely shots
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QuoteOriginally posted by 8540tomg Quote
Spyder,

You are too modest. These are great.

Which lens did you use?

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Agree with Tom - lovely shots
Thanks.
Those are both with the K500.
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Snipe's a bird of legend here spyder,mandarins that we see here are more often
covered with orange glaze and garnished rather than the feathered type you
so expertly show.

Female Horned Lark,of north america's open territory,savannah and praries.
feathered tufts look like horns on male,bumps on back of head of female
need to figure out how to diffuse flash with snow and still have light enough to shoot.
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Here we go again

Black Headed Gull - winter plumage



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Fatty!


k-x + 55-300

Common redstart female

I have this printet 20x30 with a bit more saturated colors, it's nice on my wall.
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Bill, Squier, Skog,

Great stuff all.

Spyder,

That Snipe has to be the best K 500/4.5 shot I've ever seen. Cliff Claven of Cheers fame has been looking for that bird for years.

The great Snipe hunt is over. I too thought it was a legend but the legend comes to life.

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Not to criticize here as there are many great shots and I have not posted much, but I have a question.


Is it just me, or are some of the shots over sharpened in PP?
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QuoteOriginally posted by BillM Quote
Snipe's a bird of legend here spyder,mandarins that we see here are more often
covered with orange glaze and garnished rather than the feathered type you
so expertly show.

Female Horned Lark,of north america's open territory,savannah and praries.
feathered tufts look like horns on male,bumps on back of head of female
need to figure out how to diffuse flash with snow and still have light enough to shoot.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Lowell Goudge Quote
Is it just me, or are some of the shots over sharpened in PP?
I'd agree that some are--maybe some of my own. The temptation to push a shot too far is very strong and I'm very unsure about what I'm doing when it comes to sharpening.
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QuoteOriginally posted by dadipentak Quote
I'd agree that some are--maybe some of my own. The temptation to push a shot too far is very strong and I'm very unsure about what I'm doing when it comes to sharpening.
Actually, the shot in mind I don't think was yours, but I did notice a few in the past couple of pages where there seems to be a false outline of the bird, that I have seen before caused by over sharpening.

I did not really intend to select any one person out, it was just an observation.

As for sharpening, I generally do very very little, and control the radius to something in the order of .7 to 1.5 pixels.
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are some of the shots over sharpened in PP?
I'll plead guilty Lowell,do keep radius between .1 to .7 and no more than 15% of
maximum control input.Something Ive noticed using tamron 360B and F AF1.7x
in atmospheric conditions prevalent last 2 weeks here is purple fringing,have made
adjustments in body especially regarding contrast,where Ive bumped up considerably.
Normally shy away from most PP as it detracts from time in the field.Im not the only
one that has expirenced some frustration in uploading images and seen them "mangled",
seen with immature eagle recently,uploaded image,next morning
was with a group of people,plugged my laptop into inverter,booted up and showed
them,when one of group compared my original to uploaded image,said
"why dont you just move to craigslist" Lastly,photographs are wonderful aids in teaching,you must
certainly have images of simular birds in somewhat same settings and conditions
that you could upload and demonstrate with.
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