Osprey II

Here is another shot of the osprey that I saw at the nature center last week. I like the pose here, but if you see the large version, you can see very visible noise as a result of over sharpening. I went in to re-sharpen it and discovered that I lost the original raw because of a weird crash to the hard drive that lost all of my images, none of the rest of the files on the drive were missing, only my files! After using a recovery software to get the images back, all but the raw's of my osprey images were recovered which is really odd. Maybe I can find them some day, but for now I hope that you like this one anyway.

Image Data:

1/1600s. | f/8 | ISO 400

Fill Flash + Better Beamer

Osprey

Yesterday my mom and I went to the Fort Worth Nature Center to bird and for me to photograph. We spent a few hours there in the afternoon until closing. We did not see much, I saw a group of White-Throated Sparrows but was unable to get them to come into the open for a clear image. We also saw the usual belted kingfishers and wading birds as well as a few grebes. The highlight of the day though was seeing a pair of ospreys circling over the river and I was very happy to get a few decent shots of them for the first time. If I had a kayak I think I would have been able to get some better images. I very much look forward to all of the other winter migrants that will be arriving and hopefully I will be able to rev up my photography.

Hope you like this one.

Image Data:

1/1600s. | f/8 | ISO 400

Flash + Better Beamer

Yellow Leaf on Moss

Here is another shot taken in Connecticut. I got this one at Devils Hopyard State Park ( interesting name ) . Taken with the S95, this leaf was perfectly placed on a patch of moss and stood out to me, so I used the macro feature on the camera and grabbed the shot. The S95 continued to impress me on my trip and I am very happy that I made the purchase. I edited this on a laptop and am not sure how it looks, let me know if there is anything wrong with it.

Hope you like.

Image Data:

1/60s. | f/4.5 | ISO 400

Canon S95

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Herring Gull in Environment

Continuing with the series of gull images! This is the last one actually, and I think my favorite. I took this one at some beach, I do not know the name if it even had one. This guy kept walking around and it seemed like he was just begging to have his picture taken, so I took it. This is probably a 75% crop from the original. I like the way the image shows this gull's common environment and the slightly foggy ocean. Now if only I would have had some dramatic light, oh well can't have it all I guess!

Hope you like it.

Image Data:

1/320s. | f/4.9 | ISO 80

Canon S95

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Backlit Gull

Here is another image from my trip up to Connecticut. This was taken at the same time as my previous post. This gull ( a juvenile herring? ) was on a different post with the sun behind it. I liked the way the light was shining through the edges of it's feathers and beak, so I decided to practice exposing backlit subjects. I was really wishing that I had brought my polarizer along, it would have been helpful to make the sky in the background better looking. I still like this image as it is my most successful backlit image yet.

I hope you like it!

Image Data:

1/250s. | f/8 | ISO 400

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Herring Gull Portrait

I got back from Connecticut on Wednesday where I and my mom and two sisters visited some family that have recently moved there. The weather was really nice, but we were just a little early for the best fall colors. I was able to take some photos, mostly with my new S95. I was happy with the performance and quality of the images I got from it. I will share some of the photos I took as soon as I am able to process them, Lightroom does not support the RAW files from the S95 yet, so I am having to edit them in Canon's DPP software, which takes me a little longer to use. But for now here is a image from the trip of a very cooperative gull perched on the dock in the back of my relatives home taken with the 40D. Hope you like it.

Image Data:

1/200s. | f/8 | ISO 400

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