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Local Wetland Birds

Postby marc on Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:45 pm

Here's a few I've taken over the last week from my local Wetland reserve.

Nikon D300 & 200-400 VR.


Purple Swamphen closeup.
ISO 200, f/4, 1/100s @ 400.

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Male Chestnut Teals in motion blur glide.
ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/125s, @ 450 (+1.4tc)

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Pacific Black Duck.
ISO 1600, f/5.6, 1/500s @ 450.(+1.4tc)


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Chestnut Teal (male)
ISO 800, f/5.6, 1/500s @ 450 (+1.4tc)

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C & C most welcome

Cheers
Marc
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Re: Local Wetland Birds

Postby miikeboyle on Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:07 pm

Hey Marc,

Nice photos. Is this Oatley Reserve? You should check out Towra reserve down at Kurnell. Lots of Bird life around there.

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Re: Local Wetland Birds

Postby RDW on Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:48 pm

Marc,
Beautiful solos of the Swanphen, Black Duck and Teal. The motion shot doesn't do a lot for me, but the others are stunning. The Purple Swamphen in particular has wonderful saturation and contrast of colour with the vibrant red, purple/blue and greens.
The sharpness of the Black Duck is fantastic -- is this manually focused or auto?
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