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mvanrheenen wrote:
@DrScottNicol: nice shots, although I hope you're kidding about the dead pigeon being more your style. Did you take the phrase "bird shooting" a bit to litteral maybe? Just kidding. Nice shots!
I feel that stunning / chloroforming your subject is a legitimate and under appreciated photographic technique.. although admittedly I find its less popular when I try it with people in studio portraits / urban street scenes
I don't get that. You should think people would be less anxious for a photo shoot if they know they won't notice a thing, just like with the dentist
On a side note, there are a few rogue macro photographers who use freezing techniques on their insectoid subjects to get a good macro photo. I can't say I approve of those techniques myself, but it is practised by some.
Technically these shots are 2011 (30 Dec, Leeds Castle in Kent) and in this case, the birds present a different problem - as soon as they saw me stopping to take a shot they run towards you in the prospect of food, often getting closer than the minimum focussing distance for the lens and then following me as I tried to step back to get them in shot lol.
A77 / Sigma 50-150
Scott
Sony NEX 5n (IR Conversion) / Nex 5r / a55 / NEX 6 / Dynax 7 / a77 user
Wow, the shot of the peacock is really good. The plumage comes out really good, almost metallic (as in real life). Like the other two also, although my eyes don't like the stong light in the duck shot that much.
mvanrheenen wrote:Wow, the shot of the peacock is really good. The plumage comes out really good, almost metallic (as in real life). Like the other two also, although my eyes don't like the stong light in the duck shot that much.
re peacock, thanks
I know what you mean about the duck shot - I liked the pose 'staring into space' but in that shot the ripples further down were blown out. I had another similar shot with better exposure (more ripples visible filling the space) but in that case, the focus was off.
Scott
Sony NEX 5n (IR Conversion) / Nex 5r / a55 / NEX 6 / Dynax 7 / a77 user
In these cases, I tend to use a polariser filter to help cancel out the reflections. Bright light also tends to blend out the details along the lines of the subject, although I don't think this is the case in this shot. It does give a smooth silhoutte. Just a thought
Just heard that the government had plans to execute 100.000 geese (!) in our country because the large population is destroying crops. 100.000 geese... I'm dumbfounded by this, really, and not only because I like birds. I'm not religious, but destroying that many creatures of nature is just wrong. Fortunately, a judge ruled against this plan, because it would violate European regulations.
mvanrheenen wrote:Just heard that the government had plans to execute 100.000 geese (!) in our country because the large population is destroying crops. 100.000 geese... I'm dumbfounded by this, really, and not only because I like birds. I'm not religious, but destroying that many creatures of nature is just wrong. Fortunately, a judge ruled against this plan, because it would violate European regulations.
It sounds like you need more goose hunters over there - where can I sign up?
Dusty
An a700, an a550 and couple of a580s, plus even more lenses (Zeiss included!).
Mark, no-one here shoots ducks or geese any more - used to be a staple part of the winter diet. I would guess that there are 100,000 too many geese because some very tasty intensive agriculture provided the colony with unlimited free foraging to expand numbers.
As with culls of deer in Scotland, it should not be an emotive issue. Tackling 100,000 at once is quite wrong but licensing a few dozen professional goose hunters, with a proper food processing channel to sell the result, might have controlled numbers over the years.
But a good shot of 100,000 geese feeding on a field would be something to get!
The plan was to gass the geese, so no luck for hunters. I understand the problem, but 100.000 is mass murder in my book. There must be other, more humane ways to deter the geese from destroying farmland.
Another photographer who has morbid ideas about how to capture the essence of life as a bird. First Scott with the dove on the parking lot, now fried chicken! What is this world coming to?!
Henry, don't answer Gregs question with anything below 200mm+tc or I'll become really jealous off your birdstalkingskills hahaha! Nice shot!
Very nice images! I like the idea behind the stork silhoutte, well executed! I especially like the last image, good angle and interesting seeing the pray the stork caught.
The first image is good too but although I don't mind noise in my images, this noise seems to be coloured in some way. Look in the top left corner, the noise strikes me as red although the background is green.
Just kidding. Nice shots!
