The birds they mock me
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Fezant Pluckah said:
Is this better? ![tongue out](/inc/images/tongue.gif)
![](http://www.canvasphotography.co.uk/images/random/sillyheron.jpg)
Yes, much ![tongue out](/inc/images/tongue.gif)
![](http://www.canvasphotography.co.uk/images/random/sillyheron.jpg)
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Fezant Pluckah said:
Nice kingfishers. yet to get a decent shot with my 500mm.
Nothing much wrong with your shots above. A couple of minor pointers, looking at your EXIF, your shutter speed is a bit slow for flight shots, in the case of the Heron I'd use 1/800 sec to freeze the motion and in the case of the Gulls a bit faster again, 1/1000 or 1/1250 sec.I find spot metering works best for birds (especially Gulls) as the white feathers are easy to over expose from a general meter reading. As I only got my camera a while ago, and really have not taken that many pictures with it, but have gone to a bird sanctuary with it, I have a small amount of pics.
quite easy to take a picture of a bird when its in a big cage really.
this one was not in a cage though.
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neither was this one.
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but this one was.
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quite easy to take a picture of a bird when its in a big cage really.
this one was not in a cage though.
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neither was this one.
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but this one was.
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A few British Waterfowl in the wild.
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DSC_0017_Camp_FarmActioned by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0343_Tiff by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0245_Tiff by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0017_Camp_FarmActioned by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0030_Camp_FarmActioned by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0156_Camp_FarmActioned by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0267_Camp_FarmActioned by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0343_Tiff by natureiser, on Flickr
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DSC_0245_Tiff by natureiser, on Flickr
I went to Oz recently over christmas and I have a bit of a thing about photographing the birds - the other half doesn't understand why (me neither tbh?)! However these are my favourite ones from the trip! The parrot was taken by the boy, its quite stunning! ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
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Edited by snoob on Saturday 8th February 22:46
GetCarter said:
NEEP said:
Red tag.. I'll check that out but I think it's the Gairloch bird(s). Gassing Station | Photography & Video | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff