Communal Bird Photography Thread

[blackfox]

barn owl hunting in the golden hour

[wornish]

Bit big for the bird feeder!

[MJ224]

About right for the pot though..:-)

[Phill D]

We get one of those visiting too. Beautiful colours.

[MJ224]

Long Tailed Tit Glide Path

by Mark Johnson, on Flickr

[griffljg]

Great shot Mark. Playing with Pro Capture? 😉

[MJ224]

Yes, they flit around so fast, and I am no longer a photo athlete........:-(

[MJ224]

Avocet at Slimbridge


North American Otter at Slimbridge

Not bird, but the same visit...

by Mark Johnson, on Flickr

[davcoll]

The Avocet is gorgeous.

Dave

[mikero]

From a trip to the local pond last Thursday, a pair of Great Crested Grebe weed offering. (Well actually dead leaves from the bottom of the pond.) E-M1X with 150-400mm, 1.25x and external MC14.

Incidentally, I found to my disappointment that I couldn't process the image in PureRAW as usual, presumably because DxO doesn't have profiles for the lens and TC combination.

Mike

[mikero]

Mark, Ron, thanks. Another visit to the pond soon if the grey skies ever clear.

Mike

[rustyarrow]

DXo have upgraded and the 150-400 profile has been there for a few weeks, just upgrade and it sucks it in- well mine works OK with 150-400 + the 2.00 TC guess 1.4 will be the same.

[mikero]

Interesting comment on DxO. I found the bare lens processes very well in PureRAW, but when I tried with the 1.4x attached it degraded the image significantly with dreadful CA and general softness. I got MUCH better results simply processing in Lightroom. Of curse I may be doing something wrong. I'll try and find out what profiles are available on the DxO website. If that doesn't shed light then I'll try a test shot with the 2x. BTW I'm using PureRAW v1.5 which claims to be the latest version.

Update - I get the same poor output with dreadful CA when I attach the MC20.

[Ian]

My first brambling! I know it's not that uncommon to birders but I'd not even heard of this bird until last week Please excuse the quality - this was a very large crop and through that dirty kitchen window again!

[MJ224]

Well caught.I have never seen one, but they are around...

[rustyarrow]

Posing Woody. 1x with 150-400

[Olybirder]

That's a classy woodpecker shot. I like it a lot.

Ron

[MJ224]

Redwing in leaves

Not an easy or good photo, in poor light, and little contrast between the bird and background.
DXO'd and Lightroomed....


by Mark Johnson, on Flickr

[Olybirder]

Cormorantics – It must be boring perching on a post all day!



Ron

[Phill D]

Just brilliant Ron

[blackfox]

couple from today through the living room window, not been out for a few days as we have a lot of mist /fog around so pointless venturing to far ,female chaffinch and starling omd1-mkiii + nikon 300mm f4 M/F and handheld

[blackfox]

well the weather here cleared to a rather glorious winters day so why waste it . camera and spare lenses (not needed) loaded into the mondeo hide with my son chugging along with his new kowa scope and off we go .. still got a couple of hundred plus good shots to go through so heres a sample of the best day so far this year

[Ian]

Some bird IDs would be good here

[blackfox]

Top two linnets .next two snow buntings ,then female stonechat,then little egrets fighting , last one in the sand grey wagtail .. that’s it for now boss 😎😎. Just got some nice shots of a very hard to get bird today as well ,need some catch up time now

[antpitta]

Nice set - sunlight makes such a difference. Seems like it's been a very good winter for showy Snow Buntings! Presume a typo - last pic is a Pied Wagtail.

[blackfox]

another shot of the egrets fighting yesterday

[MJ224]

All legs and wings. Well caught..:-)

[blackfox]

three more from mid week , snow bunting ,starling and female stonechat