Birds In Flight

PentaxBabe
Posted 09/05/2009 - 13:47 Link
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Not sure if I have done this correctly. Hopefully you will see my picture! This is my best picture of a European Roller in flight. Taken in Tanzania 2009 while watching and trying to photograph them mobbing some Lesser Kestrels. I had actually given up as I didn't believe I would actually manage to get a shot at all. Suggestion for taking birds flying at high speed gratefully accepted. If the link to the photo doesn't work I will add the picture to the main gallery tomorrow.
RR
Posted 09/05/2009 - 13:57 Link
PentaxBabe wrote:
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Not sure if I have done this correctly. Hopefully you will see my picture! This is my best picture of a European Roller in flight. Taken in Tanzania 2009 while watching and trying to photograph them mobbing some Lesser Kestrels. I had actually given up as I didn't believe I would actually manage to get a shot at all. Suggestion for taking birds flying at high speed gratefully accepted. If the link to the photo doesn't work I will add the picture to the main gallery tomorrow.
See this LINK on how to post photos.

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Wonderful coloured bird well captured, but the image is lacking contrast I feel.
RR
Posted 09/05/2009 - 14:06 Link
I can't do a great job on a small compressed image, but I'd suggest you up the contrast a little & also try cropping tighter top & left (moving subjects are generally best framed with more space to move into)

I hope you don't mind but I've quickly knocked up an example, it can be removed if you wish.

[IMG]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q105/RR76/European-Rollercopy.jpg[/IMG]

Regards, Bob
scottthehat
Posted 09/05/2009 - 14:52 Link
hope you dont mind,
[IMG]http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww272/scottthehat/European-Roller.jpg[/IMG]
PentaxBabe
Posted 10/05/2009 - 09:59 Link
No of course I don't mind. I just don't know how to do what you have yet but I will have a go. I was just amazed that I even managed to get a fair clear Roller in the shot. They were all over the place. By the time I had managed to get them in frame on the camera it was just a matter of shotting and hoping for the best. I took over 100 shots and most are blurred or don't even have a bird in the picture!

Thanks again for your suggestions wil practise in Paintshop Pro.

Jeanette
PentaxBabe
Posted 12/05/2009 - 19:57 Link
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Second attempt at trying to post a picture on he gallery!

Jeanette
shim
Posted 12/05/2009 - 20:10 Link
Choose Image from bar below and paste the flickr details you have above
between the centre brackets ][ Press enter for line feed to leave space above picture

It's not worked here because the link you have given above is to your webpage...... you need the link/url of the actual photograph.

shim
PentaxBabe
Posted 12/05/2009 - 20:28 Link
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Thanks Shim,

if this hasn't wrked I give up

As u can tell I am nt very techie
shim
Posted 12/05/2009 - 20:37 Link
It's not worked because you are still just posting the website address

For a photo it has to be an address with .jpg on the end.

The one you did above finished with "European-Roller.jpg" on the end i.e. the name of the file. You need to logon to your page and it should let you copy the link to the photo with .jpg on the end.

Better luck next time.

shim
PentaxBabe
Posted 14/05/2009 - 19:36 Link
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Final attempt!
paulyrichard
Posted 14/05/2009 - 19:41 Link
Hooray!

Have you got a bigger version, it looks a nice photo.
"All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice." - Elliott Erwitt

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scottthehat
Posted 14/05/2009 - 19:42 Link
you got there, like the shot a little p and p, would make this better,but i still like it well taken, nice feeling of speed,
just keep snapping,

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http://s727.photobucket.com/albums/ww272/scottthehat/


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PentaxBabe
Posted 14/05/2009 - 19:53 Link
See I told you I wasn't very techie! It only took me ......

Sorry, no that is the original photo, so its as large as it gets.

I know I am really thick but what is p and p?
paulyrichard
Posted 14/05/2009 - 20:00 Link
PentaxBabe wrote:


I know I am really thick but what is p and p?
PP for me means 'post-processing'. Get the image on your comp' and go to work on it like tweakin' the contrast, saturation and curve levels, and maybe some croppin' etc.
"All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice." - Elliott Erwitt

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Edited by paulyrichard: 14/05/2009 - 20:02
shim
Posted 14/05/2009 - 20:02 Link
It's a nice shot... the thorns and background are perfect.

I think Scott meant PP which stands for post processing or editing
to you and me. Like RR and Scott did on your earlier post.

shim

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