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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: elsa hoffmann on August 20, 2015, 12:31:13
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I live in a beautiful place
Photographed this morning
Please don't complain about the bright spots - I was shooting through very many branches and had no other vantage point. And I mean LOTS of branches and sticks
Nikon 3200 & 300F4
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I definitely need a Garden. Plants and Animals.
Thank you for sharing these intimate insights in to your personal
wildlife!
The colored birds in the first two shots appeal to me
most.
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Amazing Elsa.
The first (and second) bird looks like the Cape weaver Ploceus capensis. We never see them in Europe ;)
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Thanks Frank and John
It is the Cape Weaver - and we have many of them. I have at least 10 nests currently around my property - but obviously at least half is abandoned
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No Cats? We have so many free roaming house cats that song
birds are scarce. Little sofa killer tigers. I love cats but I like to
have them kept away from songbirds...
do not know a solution yet
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Remember I stay on water's edge - these trees over hang the water - and the branches are plentiful but thin - cats cant get up there
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More good stuff Elsa. I've been working on my garden this week. My garden isn't as natural or wild as your garden, (no otters), but is it very relaxing and full of butterflies and Hummingbirds.
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#1 Bird exercise? It is a great shot !
I also like #2
the brown birds are nice but pale in comparison to the bright yellow fellow you show in the first 2 images
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#1 Bird exercise? It is a great shot !
I also like #2
the brown birds are nice but pale in comparison to the bright yellow fellow you show in the first 2 images
LOL ... Push-Downs?
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Lucky you
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Thank you you nice men :)
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Elsa you put me to shame!
Stunning.
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Peter - thank you - but I disagree :)
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#1 is mighty fine. No reason for discarding the rest, all documenting a fine bird.
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Thank you Airy - the bird will be pleased
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these are certainly not to brag about my photographic skills - but rather to show what I have had in my garden in the past 2 days - well probably they are here everyday - :)
I managed to trim away some branches without chasing the weavers off
the last one is a Cape Robin - very noisy shot as you can tell
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You might like to experiment with even shorter times to compensate various forms of blur?
150821 does not show any of it, so I guess the time is as fast as necessary in this case
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I find I need lot of speed (maybe just cause I am blond) so I erred on that side
It's been a busy day in my garden. It's like there is a highway past my house
Egret and a another thingie
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Elsa you are so blessed with such a garden :)
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Love the lighting of the last three shots. Image #3 of the first batch looks unique and is my favorite.
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Thank you Jakov and Akira
Soon Bjørn will see this himself and can tell you all to come visit me too
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Elsa these are great (both for a species I have never seen before, plus the image quality)
I know this lens - were you quite close to the subjects? I struggle to get close enough to the birds in my garden to take images of this quality.
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Colin thanks
I was about 12 - 15 feet away from the birds - which is pretty close to get to the birds - and I think unusual. Most images slightly cropped to finish off. The egret was further away - high up in the tree.
The friggin Cape Robin hops around all the time - but always in the shade - so not so easy to get - but the best is quite used to human activity and not too skittish.
I dont assume for a minute that you can compare this to "real" bird photography - as you would bever get that close
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Wonderful bird series, Elsa! You have a great garden for birds! :)
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Thank you kindly Lance
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More good stuff Elsa. What I like is that your image hid the fact that it was your backyard. With your tight crops and angles it could have been out in the wilds, camping and sweating and hiking ... as opposed to a life of leisure lounging on your patio furniture ... taking a shot here ... a shot there ... then after the photo session you and your bird friends all kicking back and sipping some wine ... complaining how the MUA did their feathers.
Seriously, I do appreciate that the foreground and background do not reflect anything man made.
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Thank you Gary - most kind of you but I cant take all the backyard credit - as I live on water's edge - the water and water is my backyard and lots of open space.
The birds tend to stick on the water's side - easy escape.
herewith another resident or 2
first one - photographed through my neighbours living room window - he parked at her bird bath - and you guessed it - had a bath.
2 nd - Great crested grebe
3rd - on the property across the water from my house
4th - Red knobbed coot and bambinos
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oooohhhh ... love the Coot and bambinos, (but the upper left corner is a touch hot). Do you have a dock and /or some type of watercraft ... a skiff, kayak, paddle board, water wings?
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;D you dont miss anything do you... :P
had a pedallo once...
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These are really beautiful photos and birds!
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Elsa, you usually suit other sort of intriguing birds :)
These are very nice, nevertheless ::)
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:D
Thanks Jakov and Björn !
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Beautiful Elsa
Yes, birds need a lot of speed, part of the reason I just went full-frame. Especially if you are trying to catch them in flight. Birds the size of the weavers you have here (the yellow ones) need 1/2000 or better...
Grant Atkinson once told me that the secret to bird photography was developing a list of places where you can get closer than normal, and techniques to make that possible otherwise...
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Elsa, is now time to organize safaris in you garden... :P
Very nice series of birds.
The three last ones look like European birds. :)
Thanks for sharing, Francis.
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Thank you Francis and Peter
I do have the place and opportunity -I just don't have the long lens, so Peter - That is a good piece of advise fro Grant - eve more so if you don't have the right lenses.
My other limitation is direction of light in my garden. Too often I am shooting into the light.
1. Swallows under my the bridge next to my house - accessed by boat and flash used
2. An Egyptian
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Elsa, were you frightened of the red shoe bird attack :)
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@Jakov: The red shoes is a real fatty so I hope she will be grilled when she reaches my table...
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Beautiful. #1 is also my favorite. What a place to live!
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me is scared of nothing :)
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It looks more like a Gooney Bird than an Egyptian.
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Hello Elsa,
beautiful work. I don´t see that many branches :)
3rd one has that something special for me. The "ambiance" of the image with all those almost random spots of bright light and darker space. The bird´s position and angle in the frame gives him a human like posture. I don´t want to disturb his concentration. Is he remembering? If so, is very intense memory.
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It looks more like a Gooney Bird than an Egyptian.
I thought a Gooney Bird was a C47:
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More stunning photos Elsa. Pity you are so far away.
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Thanks boyz and golunvolo
Peter - you are wrong - it is you that lives so far away - :P
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My wife agrees. Keep saying we need to move to the mountain's shadow...
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Well Peter - you can always visit.
The flamingos were photographed near my home on a larger body of water (part of the water canals where I live)
certainly not sharp - so let's not go there :) Taken with the Sigma 150-600 Sport lens - which I was not impressed with - probably no fault of the lens though.
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Are Flamingos tasty?
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Are Flamingos tasty?
you kill me right off
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I think I am getting the picture. You live 1) in the zoo or 2) in a wildpark.
I love your photos!
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Thank you Peter - me be the zoo-keeper :)
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I heared you grow bears in your garden these days?
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I somehow missed these until now but I'm very glad I finally found them - #1 and #2 are absolutely beautiful, exceptional images. The others are perfectly valid as examples of behaviour but the first two are prize-wnners - very well done.
I didn't previously know you were such a fine photographer of nature; now I know better.
BTW, *why* is your name not on the list for Killin 2016?
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Dave - It's still under consideration - Scotland I mean....
thanks for looking and commenting :) I am not really a nature photographer - but I am trying :)
Frank - I found a bear yes (not quite in my garden - At Cape Point)
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obviously in his element. How I love to see him again anytime soon