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here's a few birbs on film from the end of last year
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>>4492813this one just needs a little bit of dodging and burning, but that's about the only thing from making this a 5/5 photograph
>>4494867just a quick edit
off topic just for my tamron anonmacro shots single shot f 11 ss 1/30 iso 100distance aprox 2cm
around 30 pics stacked in cracked version of zerene stackerf 8ss 1/6iso 160used desk lamp with 1800lumens led light and a4 paper as diffuserleaf almost touching front of lenscamera on tripod using focus bracketingprevious pics handheld, no flash, as i'm still waiting sales
Chickens in the snow this morning on a Polaroid Now.
My favorite bird is the McDonnel Douglas MD-80 but the white throated sparrows have been nothing but kind to me
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>>4494972damn thing got rotated 90°
big lake swans
>>4495320Pretty vintage postcard look
in a sea of dogshit on this site, /bpd/ is one of the few gems on 4chan. thank you, anons, for posting the great content. i look forward to viewing more birds, and perhaps giving you all some birds of my own one day.
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>>4495948I wasn’t going to post, but your thoughtful comment inspired mePlease, take my birds.
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>>4496056Locations:New Delhi, India Baños, ecuador Taipei, TaiwanRishikesh, indiaQuito, Ecuador Athens, Greece And finally, mishualli, Ecuador
>>4496060Lemmie know if you’d like more. Ok one more. Iquitos, peru
>>4496604Shot a similar photo last summer
>>4495163this one is very beautiful, are there any more you have?
>>4496915Yours is better Here’s another
>>4497031They really love showing their asses
Why is bird photography so common and popular? Is it basically a non-violent substitute for hunting them? I would imagine that it would be fulfilling in many of the same ways.
>>4497089Is photography similar to hunting general?
>>4497089I can only speak for myself, but that's exactly why I'm bird photographer. It's fun going out on hikes with a light weight setup and finding birds. There's a lot of cross over with the hunting/outdoor community where I live. It's a good way to pass the time in between hunting seasons. Stereotypes aside, hunters/sportsmen are often the biggest advocates of ecological preservation.>>4497093Hunting skills are very useful for nature photography. Especially if your subject is mostly wild animals. It's lower stakes just because if I fail to see something I can go to the local park and photograph sparrows or something.
The new Sean bean birding podcast is utter shite. It just needs to be Sean simply talking about birds. 30 min podcast with 10 mins of ads and shilling shit. Then 15 mins of some zoomer who doesn't know how to speak properly talking about wellbeing bollocks and 5 mins of Sean bean just introducing these gormless cunts.
Check out this sweet roadrunner I saw earlier
>>4497241RoadrunnerShort legsShort neckMy whole life is a lie
>>4497244They can extend a bit lolThey also sometimes puff up and become spherical
>>4497089I would imagine a part of it comes from the same feelings you get from gambling. Imagine that feeling you get from seeing something that is somewhat rare for you or the area.Also there is a level of work put in to go out looking for birds, and then to get a good photo not just a photo.Birds also either look really pretty or really cool and sometimes both. I don't know shit about them but I like to look at them. I can predict that for some people its just train autism.
>>4497287Bird autist are sometimes called Listers. Their main objective is sighting/identification. Getting a photo is strictly for documentation, image quality is rarely a focus for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAoInteresting documentary about them.
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Posting half of my session today. Lot to process, will post second half tomorrow.
Second half
Fin. Might process some of the lesser desired B roll later if I'm bored.
>>4497629wonderful photos. where did you take these? quite the variety of birds for what appears to be a single location.
>>4497643La Jolla Coves in San Diego. We boast to having one of the largest diverse biomes in the country for birds. The cove has a Brant's cormorant colony which is what I primarily went for. There were also significant amounts of brown pelicans and royal terns.
Weather continues to be grey and miserable in the UK but the goldfinches and greenfinches were out and about nearby.
>>4497769they made a fish a bird science has gone too far
>>4496055Best photo I've ever seen, holy shit that's beautiful
>>4498078 Thank you, I truly appreciate it
watcha lookin at dog CUNT
BeholdThe roadrunner in sphere mode
>>4498739accidentally did the sideways thingsorry these aren't that great, I'm not a photographer
>>4498748you took a picture. you are now a photographer
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>>4498771What setup and how close did you had to get to take this shot?
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>>4498837There you have it folks, what we’re all here to seeHot bird fuck pics
>>4498840The same bird only moments before
>>4498841To shreds you say
>>4498821Canon EOS R7 + RF 100-500Bird was about 6 meters away, the lens is exceptionally sharp.
Bought a Canon 135 f2.5 the other day, some magpies obligingly landed on my lawn while I was sat outside fucking around with it and trying to get a feel for it. Nice piece of glass and I'm really liking it so far, if only it wasn't so fucking heavy.
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sorry for the noob question, but what kind of setting(s) do I need to consider to make good pictures from flying birds that are sorta further away?Do I need a certain lens too? i have a 14-150mm one.Pic related is from a zoo visit, pretty easy to get a good picture. But when i'm outside it becomes tough to get a good picture from flying birds in the moment
>>4499045The eye on your image a little soft, so you might have had your shutter speed set a bit too low. For stationary birds, I generally work with 1/500. I'll go less if they're absolutely still in shaded conditions to help reduce noise, or more if they're real fidgety/flighty. Your picture is good, but you want to do some post processing to bring out the best. Consider shooting in RAW or JPG+RAW so you can process the raw file and tweak things a little bit. Remember to move around and find the best angle for your composition. The image should highlight your subject while trying to minimize competing highlights. The bird is a little low in frame. When you first look at the image, your eyes are immediately drawn to the tree in the background first and the bird second. Following the rule of thirds and help make it stand out more.For birds in flight, you want a high shutter speed around 1/2500 and greater. 1/2500 for larger birds and scale up perhaps to 1/5000 for smaller, quicker birds. Your lens is a little too short for BIF. A general recommendation is that you want a lens that is 300mm minimum, but ideally something like a 100-500, 200-600 or 200-800. With birds in flight, you also want to practice panning, or physically moving your body with the bird, following it while in flight. Good posture takes practice as you have to lock your arms in place and move with your waist.You'll want to setup back button focus if you haven't already, and use a focus type like servo or af-c depending on your type of camera. This focus is meant for moving subjects and needed for BIF.
>>4499060I appreciate the response!>The eye on your image a little soft, so you might have had your shutter speed set a bit too low. For stationary birds, I generally work with 1/500. I'll go less if they're absolutely still in shaded conditions to help reduce noise, or more if they're real fidgety/flighty.That's a really good mental guideline for me. I think this is why this picture of a sleepy grey parrot came out way better.>Your picture is good, but you want to do some post processing to bring out the best. Consider shooting in RAW or JPG+RAW so you can process the raw file and tweak things a little bit. Remember to move around and find the best angle for your composition. The image should highlight your subject while trying to minimize competing highlights. The bird is a little low in frame. When you first look at the image, your eyes are immediately drawn to the tree in the background first and the bird second. Following the rule of thirds and help make it stand out more.That was a rookie mistake from me, at the beginning my camera was set to JPG only and now it's JPG+RAW. For the angles I definitely gotta be more aware of it, it was a busy day at the zoo and didn't wanna block peoples view for too long so I took the first best shots avaliable>For birds in flight, you want a high shutter speed around 1/2500 and greater. 1/2500 for larger birds and scale up perhaps to 1/5000 for smaller, quicker birds. Your lens is a little too short for BIF. A general recommendation is that you want a lens that is 300mm minimum, but ideally something like a 100-500, 200-600 or 200-800. With birds in flight, you also want to practice panning, or physically moving your body with the bird, following it while in flight. Good posture takes practice as you have to lock your arms in place and move with your waist.This is awesome advice. I'll def check out the store I went to and see if they have options for the camera they sold me. And i'll def have to setup back button focus.
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>>4499074Your grey parrot came out much better. Everything is in focus and low noise. The contrast between the bird and the background makes your subject the first thing a person sees when they do their first pass of the image. When people look at an image, they often do multiple passes and its something you want to keep in mind.>First pass, very quick>eyes drawn to bright end of contrast>people look at foreground subject before moving on to background subject>Second pass, takes more time looking large details>edge structures (cage opposite to the bird)>other contrast points (again, cage)>midground subject (the bird house)>color opposition (eyes move from highlights to midtone and shadows)>third pass, more intricate details>shadow detail>gestalt>emotional response>compositionYour grey parrot tells a story—a sleepy parrot that couldn't make it to the bird house, or is now to big to get into a house it once used to sleep in when it was smaller. Its a very good image. You should be very happy with it.
>>4499082Thank you! One final question. In this image, the sky is crazy bright.. and I have no idea if this is something that I could mitigate with a camera setting or editing in post. I'd say it's a pretty bad picture because it just hurts to look at and the Parrot is barely visible. I really don't want to use a flash to potentially annoy or disturb the animals.Someone recommended me RawTherapee but that thing comes with it's own learning process because to be frank, I have no idea what i'm doing. Or rather what's it even capable of.Again I appreciate the help. I can't wait to go out and apply this newly gained knowledge to try to take some better pictures
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>>4499088The subject is backlit, so it will always come out darker in this composition. If that's not your intention, then you want to position yourself so the sun is on the front of the subject in order to light it better. That doesn't necessarily mean that this image is a loss. In post, you can raise shadows to make the subject more visible, and even change the tint on the background to give it some color. Or, when dealing with high contrast images like this, you can sometimes make it look better by converting it to a black and white, then play with the sliders to make more of an artistic image. If you ever come across an image you think isn't good, take some artistic liberties with it, as it may could turn into something more impactful. I don't shoot with flash either and position myself to the sun in order to light the subject as I desire. In a setting like the Zoo it's a little more difficult to achieve as you're following a set path. Explore different positions when you're in the wild and have more range of motion to maneuver yourself in relation to the subject.Regarding post processing, if you're looking for free applications, there's RawTherapee and and Darktable—there's are two of the most recommended free platforms, but the learning curve is steep. I don't like subscription models like lightroom or photoshop myself, so I use Gimp as a photoshop replacement (free), and I did a one-time purchase for ACDSee Ultimate 2026. ACDSee often goes on sale and you can nab it for $100. It comes with its own ai denoise model so you don't have to buy an extra one like Topaz.Here's two examples of your image in post; one with shadows raised and background tint, and another black and white.
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>>4499090>>4499091Again thank you for all the advice. These look so much better, so definitely gonna have to learn not just how to take pictures but also how to handle them in post.Here's a picture of a freeroaming Peacock at the zoo, as a treat.
>>4499090>>4499091These look way too fake. Better to expose for the subject and let the highlights blow if they must, than to have nasty halos all over.
>>4499090>>4499091disgusting>>4499208much better
>>4499208>>4499233Those were example, not finished products. Im not going to spend much time processing a conceptual point only meant to exchange an idea.
Critique please. Already know it's a bit blurry from low shutter speed, that's my fault for using 100 iso film. What else can I improve?
>>4499497Why the fuck is it sideways. Hopefully this shy fella posts properly.
