Birds...

[Tall_Paul]

Went on a bit of a walk down my local goose gathering site this evening, and took a few shots (nearly 300 in total!!), here is the pick, I'm happy with these, all shot on D70, 18-70 lens (kit lens), Hope you like!!






Any suggestions/comment welcome, these are my first decent shots with my new D70!

>> Edited by Tall_Paul on Thursday 19th May 22:19

[406]

Ah, Ferry Meadows

[Phil S]

I like that one! I perhaps would have cropped the bottom a bit(/lot) tighter and lightened the background around the head slightly to exaggerate it a bit more

[dcw@pr]

quite like the last one, it's a shame that you couldn't get more of a closeup. i doubt the goose would like a d70 up its bum as well!

[Tall_Paul]

I was going to put this one as a caption thread...but its obvious what the goose is saying really...



Neeeeeeeoooow...boom...Nnnnneeeeeeooooow...der-der-der-der-der-der!!



>> Edited by Tall_Paul on Thursday 19th May 22:35

[simpo two]

That's a good start TP. Combined with your squirrel adventures, you might want to consider adding a telephoto, eg 70-300mm, to your armoury...?

My only other comment is that for the goose taken into the light, try popping the flash up - it will do very good fill-flash and throw some light into dark foregrounds.

What fun lies ahead of you

[lotusfan]

there seem to be a lot of one legged ducks and geese about in my pictures recently.
I paid a visit to martin mere wildfowl reserve on saturday, specifically to practice taking shots of (not at) birds.
I quite like the first one but a black duck in dark water and i errr well forgot to check the camera settings before i took it too.(hence all the pactice i suppose)

edited to say actually it doesn't appear quite as dark on here, quite odd.



>> Edited by lotusfan on Friday 20th May 09:43

[_dobbo_]

Tall_Paul said:

Went on a bit of a walk down my local goose gathering site this evening

Is that like the Ace cafe but for geese instead of cars?



just kidding - really like the last one.