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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Mongo on April 25, 2016, 01:03:57
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The slightly chubbier and more robust looking silvereye of Lady Elliot Island.
D800E, Nikon 200-500mm @500mm, tripod
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Oh wow! These are exquisite. Thank you so much for sharing them.
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Excellent capture, as always. Usually I find some sort of prettiness in the small birds you capture, but this guy looks really serious!
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Oh wow! These are exquisite. Thank you so much for sharing them.
thank you for your kind words and very glad you like them.
Excellent capture, as always. Usually I find some sort of prettiness in the small birds you capture, but this guy looks really serious!
thank you very much Akira. Glad you looked in and like these. Funny, despite its "serious" look in these images, it is a very sweet little bird and smaller than a sparrow.
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Mongo, I have never seen such a yellow bird before.
Nicely captured, especially the third one. I like the light, the foreground and background on that one.
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You are my hero when it comes to bird shots. I will try to copy your style, then find my own ... 200-500 and D500 on the way
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Cute little bird.
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Mongo, excellent pictures. Thanks for pleasing my eyes.
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Very nice Mongo, amazingly crisp
Did you use flash? maybe on 1 and 2 ?
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Thanks Jakov. These are very common birds in Australia , New Zealand and other places. On this particular Island, Mongo noticed they seem to be a little heftier than normal. Must be “the good life” that does it to them
Frank, Mongo appreciates your kind comments but there are several regular bird photographers on this site (Elsa and Bob - just to name two) that produce the most excellent bird images. Mongo is still learning. Glad you like these and hope that 200-500mm is not too far away for you.
Anthony and Elsid - thank you for looking in and your comments.
Armando, thank you for your comments. No flash was used but it was a very bright direct sun day and Mongo had added compensation of +0.7EV in #1 & #2. In hindsight, it may have been more than needed in that situation and perhaps Mongo should tone #2 down a little when looking at it again. The crispness may come from a little too much sharpening. When Mongo now looks at the original NEF file, it is sharp enough to have only required little or no sharpening. Mongo appreciates you looking in and your interest - it helped to focus Mongo’s attention to re-examine these images and possibly do a re-edit. Thanks again.
Mongo will be posting some Welcome Swallow images soon
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Very beautiful Mongo!
These are quite similar to our Cape White-eye, i wonder if they are related?
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Very beautiful Mongo!
These are quite similar to our Cape White-eye, i wonder if they are related?
Thanks you Peter. Not sure if it is related to the Cape White eye but having looked at images of both, they do look remarkably alike. If it was not for the fact that they only live half a world apart, Mongo would have thought they are related. Mongo notes you also have a separate species called the Orange River white eye