Birds of a feather...

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Birds of a feather...

Postby zafra52 on Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:33 pm

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Re: Birds of a feather...

Postby Matt. K on Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:38 pm

Hi Zaff....it's a lovely bird shot with great composition....but let down by very harsh bokeh. That background is just hard and overpowering. I don't know what lens you were using, or what f/stop but it hasn't done the image any favours. Perhaps some judicious post processing to soften the bokeh might work?
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Re: Birds of a feather...

Postby ozimax on Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:42 am

We have about 25 million of these noisy critters here in Coffs. Lori and Keet try their best to wake me up each morning. They are spectacular birds. I call them the juvenile delinquents of the bird family.

Nice shot too with vibrant colours and a good pose.
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Re: Birds of a feather...

Postby Mr Darcy on Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:01 pm

ozimax wrote:We have about 25 million of these noisy critters here in Coffs. Lori and Keet try their best to wake me up each morning. They are spectacular birds. I call them the juvenile delinquents of the bird family.

Nice shot too with vibrant colours and a good pose.

So you don't have Sulphur Cresteds then?
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Re: Birds of a feather...

Postby zafra52 on Fri Dec 08, 2017 6:01 pm

Thank you for the kind comments. I took this photo with a Canon sx30 is. I think I was using a portrait setting as it is not an SLR and manual settings are not as easy. I'll work on it. Thanks.
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