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Clovis' 2025 images
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Re: Clovis' 2025 images
Got back over to Beidler this morning. Here are a few:
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The Pup and I entered some images in the North Charleston Arts Festival this week. They announced the winners last night. The Pup got an honorable mention with one of her macro images, and I snagged a second place with the egret picture I posted a little while back.
This is the slightly different edit of it that I entered.
I'll ask the Pup later today if she minds me posting her image.
This is the slightly different edit of it that I entered.
I'll ask the Pup later today if she minds me posting her image.
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Nice! and Congrats.
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Re: Clovis' 2025 images
Congratulations, CH! That photo is stunning. I'm so glad you share your work with us. Thanks again for the previews and for describing your process(es) so clearly.clovishound wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 9:04 amThe Pup and I entered some images in the North Charleston Arts Festival this week. They announced the winners last night. The Pup got an honorable mention with one of her macro images, and I snagged a second place with the egret picture I posted a little while back.
This is the slightly different edit of it that I entered.
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I'll ask the Pup later today if she minds me posting her image.
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Here are some more from another trip this weekend to the Beidler Forest.
One of the features of my new camera is called "pre-release capture". This is allows you to focus on a subject by pressing and holding the shutter button halfway down, then watch the action through the viewfinder, or backscreen. When action happens, you press the shutter completely down and take a series of pictures. The amazing thing is that it will give you up to a second of images BEFORE you pressed the shutter. I still have a lot to learn in how to effectively use this, but my results this last weekend have me wanting to try more. I'm definitely not where I need to be with it, so don't look at the images too harshly. Here are a few using this technique.
The reason it is helpful is that it is extremely difficult to anticipate when these small birds are going to fly. They are extremely fast, and by the time your brain reacts and pushes the shutter, they are already out of the frame. Even at 30 fps I found there were only two or three shots of them in the air, from time of jumping off the branch to being out of frame.
This is the the preferred presentation of the bird in flight. Unfortunately, the background is rather busy, and I didn't have enough depth of field to get both wings in focus. Overall, sharpness is just barely acceptable, if that. Focus is a real problem with these situations as the camera simply cannot track these quick little birds fast enough. The good news is that the warblers are usually flying from branch to branch a lot, and sometimes you can get several series in just a few minutes, if they don't move too far away.
I got everything right in this shot except the presentation of the bird. He flew almost directly away from me, rather than parallel. Usually a bird butt shot is not what you really want, but in this case, the outstretched wings in flight make it almost acceptable.
This little guy is a common bird in our area, and doesn't have a lot of color. I have a number of decent shots of them from my backyard, but it's nice to get a decent shot with a really nice wild background.
This was a first for me. It's a summer tanager. I have only caught one brief glimpse of one on the wing, and wasn't really sure if it was one of these, or just a cardinal. This one stopped and posed for me. They breed here in the summer and winter in Central and South America.
One of the features of my new camera is called "pre-release capture". This is allows you to focus on a subject by pressing and holding the shutter button halfway down, then watch the action through the viewfinder, or backscreen. When action happens, you press the shutter completely down and take a series of pictures. The amazing thing is that it will give you up to a second of images BEFORE you pressed the shutter. I still have a lot to learn in how to effectively use this, but my results this last weekend have me wanting to try more. I'm definitely not where I need to be with it, so don't look at the images too harshly. Here are a few using this technique.
The reason it is helpful is that it is extremely difficult to anticipate when these small birds are going to fly. They are extremely fast, and by the time your brain reacts and pushes the shutter, they are already out of the frame. Even at 30 fps I found there were only two or three shots of them in the air, from time of jumping off the branch to being out of frame.
This is the the preferred presentation of the bird in flight. Unfortunately, the background is rather busy, and I didn't have enough depth of field to get both wings in focus. Overall, sharpness is just barely acceptable, if that. Focus is a real problem with these situations as the camera simply cannot track these quick little birds fast enough. The good news is that the warblers are usually flying from branch to branch a lot, and sometimes you can get several series in just a few minutes, if they don't move too far away.
I got everything right in this shot except the presentation of the bird. He flew almost directly away from me, rather than parallel. Usually a bird butt shot is not what you really want, but in this case, the outstretched wings in flight make it almost acceptable.
This little guy is a common bird in our area, and doesn't have a lot of color. I have a number of decent shots of them from my backyard, but it's nice to get a decent shot with a really nice wild background.
This was a first for me. It's a summer tanager. I have only caught one brief glimpse of one on the wing, and wasn't really sure if it was one of these, or just a cardinal. This one stopped and posed for me. They breed here in the summer and winter in Central and South America.
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As promised, here is the Pup's entry:
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Great photograph. Perfect combination of colors and shapes. Such a cool composition and action. The little fellow appears to be smiling among the giant berries. I'm glad she let you share it here. The fruit doesn't fall very far from the tree... so to speak.
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