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24th June 2010, 01:57 AM #1
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24th June 2010, 03:11 AM #2
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Absolutely stunning....
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24th June 2010, 04:05 AM #3
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Excellent. Did you know how many beats per minute on the wings there are and adjust the speed - or was it pot luck?
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24th June 2010, 05:09 AM #4
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I don't normally get excited over animal shots but this is brilliant.
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24th June 2010, 07:28 AM #5
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Wow - absolutely stunning!!!
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24th June 2010, 07:57 AM #6
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Beautiful, jumps off the screen. My personal preference would be to include the flower he/she's hovering around for context, but that's just me. I always think BIF look strange without some kind of context. Besides I like flowers too
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24th June 2010, 08:21 AM #7
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Hmmmmmmmmm! Just perfect !!!!!!
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24th June 2010, 08:59 AM #8
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Very impressive.
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Yep, Steve. You're definitely starting to get it right!! Keep practicing.
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24th June 2010, 01:03 PM #10
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I have no words to describe your photos! Please just continue to post them so we can learn something with them!
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25th June 2010, 11:36 AM #11
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Rob, the light was perfect, but i didn't have much shutter speed. I said the heck with it and kept shooting till i nailed one. This one was 1/125s---f/5.6---ISO1250. To answer your question, the shutter was just about 2X faster than the wing beats and yes it was prob. pot luck
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25th June 2010, 11:41 AM #12
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Thanks wendy, the flower "he"(you can tell by the orange on the neck) is hovering around is a big chunk of plastic filled with sugar water. I don't want that in my shots. If i had a place to shoot over Real flowers, i would most definately include the flower. It is actually much harder to get a shot excluding the feeder. You only have a fraction of a second to get the shot off.
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25th June 2010, 11:42 AM #13
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Thanks everyone for the kind comments, most appreciated
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25th June 2010, 08:01 PM #14
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You have probably noticed that I do not usually comment on animal shots (unless the wear woolly coats) but I really must congratulate you on this image. Animal and bird photographers face a tough challenge since most of us laymen have become so accustomed to the subject matter that our eyes do not really see the image only what our minds expect us to see (if that makes sense). So when an animal or bird image takes me by the scruff and drags me into it.....well done indeed.
Steve
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