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I was shooting birds along a ridge road with my 500mm lens when these flowers caught my eye against the sky. I love the way this demonstrate that lens' great color and contrast.
Wild sunflowers by dcstep, on Flickr ISO 800, 1/2000 second (hand held), f/7.1 and +2/3EV.
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nice bridge pic Matt, i like the leaves in the foreground
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08-29-2011, 02:23 PM | #4273 |
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Great gull portrait. Looks like he should send it home to his momma.
I wouldn't normally do this, but I like the vignetting, bringing focus onto the bird without cropping as tightly. Lighting is great. I could only see in the Large size on Flickr, so I couldn't count feathers and pixel-peep. Looks great in the Large size. Dave
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Is it wrong that, even when on vacation, that every time I saw a cool bird or a nice bridge that I thought about Dave and Tim respectively? If I get the chance to shoot something like that the first thing that would cross my mind would be, "now is this worthy of Dave or Tim?"
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Thanks for the compliment Adrean, I think. I hope other people think, "Maybe I can do that" and try.
Here's THE image that drew me into birds and wildlife photography. I was staying in a high rise hotel on the South Florida coast in the spring of '09 when I noticed an osprey hunting off the top of the building. I was only two stories from the top and pulled out my 5D MkII and my 70-200mm f/4L IS and kept shooting as the osprey road the sea breeze off the front of our building. This is a heavy crop (around 80%), but the 5D2 stands up to that really well: OpspreyHeadEyeLevel by dcstep, on Flickr A few days after getting back to Colorado I ordered my 400mm f/4.6L and the rest is history. Just like almost anything, you get better the more you do it. Dave
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No problem guys (yeah Dave def. a compliment ) Given my current location I live vicariously through the len's of everyone here. Gives me ideas and things to look forward to once I finally decide to call it quits in the Middle East. That being said, I noticed an area while driving around the base here where these huge crows sit at the edge of a cliff and sometimes when the wind blows they lift off and seem to just hang there in the updraft just edges from the cliff rim...gonna shoot that if I can get away with it eventually....
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Yeah, ususally the updrafts come at the same time every day and the birds can't resist going for a ride. If you can safely get up there (we want you back in one piece) that'd be a great photo op.
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found this guy sitting on the fence..
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^ nice colors.
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^^^Great shot.
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not mine, but for Dave, by a friend of mine named Dave as well.
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Thanks Rodi. That's a beautifully lit osprey shot. I love it.
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Just a shot from a simple photoshoot I did for a good friend. She's also an investment banker in Hong Kong!
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