Two kissing birds

[Benny Pedersen]

This one cliff-hanging images/1339w1580x1080q91.jpg

Thoose two are kissing (rare) images/1322w1732x1348q81.jpg

and thoose two are trying to escape from my camera:
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Benny,
PS. Birds unbelievable: http://www.elementsvillage.com/forum...ad.php?t=46350

[Newtome]

Benny, these are incredible. I looked at your web site and was fascinated with your photos and photo edits. You took your photos to a whole new level.

Can you tell me how you did the last one with the birds escaping. It is so beautiful.
Thank you
Elaine

[Wendy]

Wow Benny ...

Fantastic shots !!

Wendy

[jo]

Wonderful shots -- all of them!

[Benny Pedersen]

Originally Posted by Newtome

Benny, these are incredible. I looked at your web site and was fascinated with your photos and photo edits. You took your photos to a whole new level.

Can you tell me how you did the last one with the birds escaping. It is so beautiful.
Thank you
Elaine

Yes, against the light (late, about 7:00 pm). DPP like this:
http://www.fineraw.com/elementsvillage/escaping.jpg

Benny

[Benny Pedersen]

Originally Posted by jo

Wonderful shots -- all of them!

Thanks, but Jo and Wendy:

I can also make BAD shots. Like those two (today May 20, 2009)





If not a funny chicken or something like (never seen, but probably common), then it's just an unsharp one who eat a worm it found up there.
Such photos can't be used in my gallery, but at least I now know worms are crawling in the trees, and I also know what I'm eating when I order food at McDonalds ...

Benny

[Bob Chadwick]

Benny,

Some fantastic pictures.

How do you get so close to the birds. I tried to shoot last year in the spring and couldn't get close enought to see much of anything in the pictures.

Bob

[Benny Pedersen]

Originally Posted by Bob Chadwick

Benny,

Some fantastic pictures.

How do you get so close to the birds. I tried to shoot last year in the spring and couldn't get close enought to see much of anything in the pictures.

Bob

I don't. The birds have to get close to you. With my 400 mm lens (got the 400 mm lens this year in feb or march), the birds must not be more than 10 metres from you, otherwise they become unsharp like the chicken burger above. A little noise isn't a problem but do not yelling.
You can hear them but not see them, so look for movements in the trees but don't move yourself, only slow movements.
BTW. The little one above had a nice flute, almost sound like a classical composer Mosart or something

[Bob Chadwick]

Thanks for the info.

[Benny Pedersen]

Since some of you seems to like also the
bad bird shots, I have now made a fourth gallery, here:

http://fineraw.com/snapshots.html

Benny