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Subject: Two Small Birds and a Heron

Three days ago I walking in a park and I saw these two birds. I quickly snapped off a few photos. I waited around for them to return, but they did not. Then I heard the familiar sound of a "squawk" and looked and saw this heron. Small black birds were chasing and attacking it. It landed on the opposite side of the pond from where I was standing. I took again some quick photos. Usually once the heron lands there and is fishing for more food, you can take quite a few more photos of it. But since the birds were still attacking it, it flew off again. So I at least was happy that I got a few photos of it to share with you all. I liked the backgrounds that I got with the small birds and heron too.

Photo No. 1

Model - Canon EOS 800D
ExposureTime - 1/640 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISOSpeedRatings - 1250
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 600 mm
Lens Model - TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011

Photo No. 2

Model - Canon EOS 800D
ExposureTime - 1/640 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISOSpeedRatings - 2000
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 600 mm
Lens Model - TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011

Photo No. 3

Model - Canon EOS 800D
ExposureTime - 1/500 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 600 mm
Lens Model - TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011

Photo No. 4

Model - Canon EOS 800D
ExposureTime - 1/500 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISOSpeedRatings - 320
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 600 mm
Lens Model - TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011

David,

That's wonderful that you were able to use that Minolta camera and get such good quality photos of the music. Seeing such things make us appreciate the photography tools we had in those days that were indeed very nice!

That older Mi.Di A1 😆 still delivers nice shots David. 👍
Nice bird shots Digirame.

I was going for a high key affect here.
I used fill flash up against a white wall.
These are Gladiolus.

Originally, I had forgotten to take my camera out of monochrome mode.
Thought I'd kind of throw this in here anyway. It's a kind of interesting shot in its own right.

Steve Thomas

I prefer the black/white one Steve.

Photobygms,

Yes. Just for the heck of it, I blew that B&W picture up and heavily cropped to just show the flower, there are all kinds of angles and textures.

Steve

Photobygms,

Thanks. It's a been a while since I've been able to get close to herons or white egrets. Yesterday I saw some white egrets but they were quite far away.

Steve,

On my monitor the color version of the flower is too bright. Why did you use fill flash against a white wall? What were you trying to achieve? Fill flash works when something needs more lighting, but that does not appear to be the case here. The B&W version shows the flower & leaves better and the wood siding texture. If the B&W version was in color with the same details, I think it would have been best.

Dig,

Like I said, I was going for a high key affect. Read up on high key photography..It's a genre all its own.

Here's an example. This image is not mine. I copied it off a web site. The photographer's name is Jaymes Dempsey.

Steve Thomas

ArvoJ,

Thank you.

How's this? (I'm not the best editor in the world)

Steve Thomas

ArvoJ,

A border is nice.

Steve

Steve,

Thanks for explaining what you were trying to achieve. I did not know there was a separate genre for that. As a high key photo, seeing the lines removed from the wood siding does improve it for me. I like the border, but feel it should be thinner and maybe of a color matching the plant leaves or flower. That's great you are doing different things.