Australia's Eastern Rosella parrot.

[Guest]

"An eastern rosella perched on a sunlit tree
As beautiful a parrot as one might wish to see
I see them fairly regularly though not every day
And if I walk close to them they always fly away."
So wrote Australian poet, Francis Duggan.

70-300mm

70-300mm

These are wild birds shot in the bush and our local gardens.
I do not shoot birds on feeders which is why I don't shoot many birds.

[Cathrine Stephansen]

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Good thing you're talking about shooting with a camera! They are really beautiful!

[Falk]

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Mark, I had to smile on the poem - very nice together with #1 pic

The Rosellas certainly look as if they plunged onto an pop artists palette and did a roll over too. We would say they are spurting Bonbon-Farben (dir. transl. = 'Candy Colors').
I wonder what was the problem with #1 though? Contrails? Powerline? Feeder?

The granite sculpture is to serve them birds a drink?

[ringneck]

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Love all these and would REALLY love to be able to see them in the wild.

I lost my old Golden Mantled Rosella in my aviary at the end of last year and think they are very similar to these.

I see the 70-300 has done a good job on capturing great detail.

Keith

[Ross the fiddler]

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Nice captures Mark. They are a lovely bird but don't visit here very often (they're more common on the coast).

[Guest]

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Mark, I had to smile on the poem - very nice together with #1 pic
The Rosellas certainly look as if they plunged onto an pop artists palette and did a roll over too. We would say they are spurting Bonbon-Farben (dir. transl. = 'Candy Colors').
I wonder what was the problem with #1 though? Contrails?
Powerline? Feeder?
The granite sculpture is to serve them birds a drink?

Bonbon-Farben - ja, sehr gut!
Re. #1. Another enigmatic comment that has me grappling for its meaning!
The Granite structure is an elaborate bird bath located in the public gardens.

Love all these and would REALLY love to be able to see them in the wild.
I lost my old Golden Mantled Rosella in my aviary at the end of last year and think they are very similar to these.
I see the 70-300 has done a good job on capturing great detail.
Keith

I don't know the Golden Mantled Rosella, but then as said, I'm no ornithologist, just an old toger who likes shooting beautiful things.

Yeah, my 70-300 was a Doozie for detail while it lasted - shame its build quality is crap.

Nice captures Mark. They are a lovely bird but don't visit here very often (they're more common on the coast).

We are also a long way from the coast - I'm surprised you haven't got them.

Thanks, Ross.

[Falk]

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Re. #1. Another enigmatic comment that has me grappling for its meaning!

I was refering to the artifical structures along the branches top left of image #1. At least on my monitor it looks like something needed to be covered in PP?!

[Guest]

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I was refering to the artifical structures along the branches top left of image #1. At least on my monitor it looks like something needed to be covered in PP?!

Out of camera uncropped shows naturally contorted tree trunk formation and bird perched at least 10 metres above ground.

[Guest]

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Falk - I must be blind mate ... I have just noticed the blemishes in the sky and have no idea as to what caused them. My processing of this picture was very light and I don't remember doing anything selectively to the sky.

[Cathrine Stephansen]

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Falk - I must be blind mate ... I have just noticed the blemishes in the sky and have no idea as to what caused them. My processing of this picture was very light and I don't remember doing anything selectively to the sky.

Looks like the branches have been selected by a lasso tool or something and then selectively darkened as a separate layer. I managed to do that without realising once when I played about with the selection tool, and didn't see I hadn't de-activated it before I used the curves tool.

Edit to add: I now see it looks like you've selected the tree and the bird and increased the scale of the background behind it in two or three separate layers, so the trees in the background are larger than in the original, and the bird is larger relative to the main tree. This gives a nice multicoloured background for the bird, which I like, and the bird gets more focus. Are you able to selectively erase the blue pixels that were left around the branches?

[Roberta]

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great shots..........Mark.
We live near the coast and we call them bomber command as about 5 routinely fly through between the house and our studios at warp drive, 5 feet from the ground, we say some day they are going to get one of us.
So I really should take some notice whats around here.
Roberta

[Ross the fiddler]

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We are also a long way from the coast - I'm surprised you haven't got them. Thanks, Ross.

They come on a rare basis, but might be more prevalent in the upper Blue Mountains. The vegetation does change & can attract different species for various reasons.

[Guest]

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Looks like the branches have been selected by a lasso tool or something and then selectively darkened as a separate layer. I managed to do that without realising once when I played about with the selection tool, and didn't see I hadn't de-activated it before I used the curves tool.

Edit to add: I now see it looks like you've selected the tree and the bird and increased the scale of the background behind it in two or three separate layers, so the trees in the background are larger than in the original, and the bird is larger relative to the main tree. This gives a nice multicoloured background for the bird, which I like, and the bird gets more focus. Are you able to selectively erase the blue pixels that were left around the branches?

Your first explanation sounds feasible. Your added second hypothesis is too bizarre, even for me!

Now I can't even find the file to fix it - my only option would be to copy it from Photobucket and edit that, but I think I'll just move on!

great shots..........Mark.
We live near the coast and we call them bomber command as about 5 routinely fly through between the house and our studios at warp drive, 5 feet from the ground, we say some day they are going to get one of us.
So I really should take some notice whats around here.
Roberta

Thanks Roberta. Rosellas are lightning fast and highly manouverable, I know. Impossible as swallows to catch in flight.

They come on a rare basis, but might be more prevalent in the upper Blue Mountains. The vegetation does change & can attract different species for various reasons.

I'm afraid the intellectual pursuit of bird demographics is utterly beyond me, Ross.

[Cathrine Stephansen]

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Your first explanation sounds feasible. Your added second hypothesis is too bizarre, even for me!

I was just looking at the differences in the two pictures - the first and the original. They have some difference in scale between elements of the picture. What a pity you can't find the file again, because it looks like you've started something really creative! (Intended as a compliment )

[Cathrine Stephansen]

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Just took a second look (I love parrots!) and have yet another theory for the differences. They are different images! In the first image, the parrot is facing towards the right, and in the uncropped version it faces towards the left. Maybe you filed it with the same number as the original where the bird is facing towards the right, and were looking for it under the wrong number.