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New Holland Honeyeater

Postby kipper on Tue May 03, 2005 11:59 pm

A New Holland Honeyeater. Taken at my friends property at Tower Hill.

Crop: 1000x666 from 3008x2000
Focal Length: 340MM (70-200VR with 1.7TC)
Shutter Speed: 1/160th
Aperture: F/7.1
ISO: 200
Metering: Spot
Mode: Programmed Auto (makes a change - must of been experimenting)
WB: Direct Sunlight

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Postby KerryPierce on Wed May 04, 2005 1:00 am

Pretty nice shot, Darryl. :D Sharp and well composed. Looks a little dark on my monitor.
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Postby kipper on Wed May 04, 2005 1:16 am

Hmm...my monitor is reduced to 85% brightness, usually I have it on 100% :)
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Postby marcus on Wed May 04, 2005 1:54 am

Magnificent.......Go the mighty VR!
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Re: White Faced Honeyeater

Postby Gordon on Wed May 04, 2005 2:20 am

kipper wrote:A whitefaced honey eater.


I'm not the bird ID police, honest I'm not ... but I'd call it a New Holland Honeyeater myself ;)
Theres a very slight chance it could be a White-cheeked Honeyeater, they are very similar.

Maybe white-faced honeyeater is a local name for the New Holland?

nice pic btw :)

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Postby Nicole on Wed May 04, 2005 7:13 am

I'd call it a New Holland Honeyeater myself


I just checked the book and I will second that ID. Are you sure you're not the bird ID police Gordon? :wink:

Very nice photo. I reckon you should try a vertical crop and see what that looks like.
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Postby kipper on Wed May 04, 2005 8:06 am

Bloody sigh. I looked at one bird on birdphotos.com.au and it was called White-cheeked Honeyeater. It looked remarkably similar, did see another one that looked the same and just assumed it was going to be named the same. However it wasn't, and mine is most definately a New Holland Honeyeater. Lucky each one of these IDs isn't costing me ;)

Nicole I did try a vertical crop but I don't think I liked the results it gave me. Quite liked the mauves/purples on the plant it's sitting on.
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Postby Glen on Wed May 04, 2005 8:49 am

Darryl, very nice, beautiful DOF
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed May 04, 2005 10:05 am

Kipper - a lovely shot that has great composition.

I do believe that you have overdone the USM
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Postby kipper on Wed May 04, 2005 10:06 am

Where Chris?

I only applied about 30-50% USM. When I was doing it I was checking for halination?, but couldn't see any.
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed May 04, 2005 10:21 am

Sorry Kip - took it over to the CRT and it looks great - damn LCD :oops:
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Hi

Postby yeocsa on Wed May 04, 2005 10:25 am

Hi

Nice shot. Did you handhold or was it on tripod?

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Postby kipper on Wed May 04, 2005 10:27 am

Handheld, was before I had a decent tripod.
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Postby Greolt on Wed May 04, 2005 10:36 am

Wow Kipper what a beautiful shot. I am continually amazed at the quality of
Photos posted on this forum.

I wonder if I will ever be able to produce anything like this standard. Going
on current atempts, I guess not. Sigh...

Any way great photo, Greolt
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Postby stubbsy on Wed May 04, 2005 11:24 am

Darryl

Great shot from a great lens. Beatifully crisp and lovely boke.
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Postby kipper on Wed May 04, 2005 12:03 pm

Thanks for the kind comments guys.
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Postby mudder on Wed May 04, 2005 5:02 pm

The colours are striking in this, I had no idea what sort of bird it was, you learn all sorts o' stuff on the forum :-).

Very contrasty, any extra saturation on the colours? They just seem so bold...
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Postby kipper on Wed May 04, 2005 6:12 pm

Probably a 10-20 shift on saturation.
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