Saturday, September 11, 2010

Week 8 - Not a Bird of Prey

Birds of prey are birds that hunt for food primarily on the wing, using their keen senses, especially vision. They are known as birds that primarily hunt vertebrates, including other birds. Such birds are almost impossible to sight in the city. However, pigeons are not. I've decided to have a it as my Week 8.

I'm always fascinated of the beauty of birds specially at flight. I was also challenged to photograph birds at rest. I've had attempts before photographing birds as close as possible but always end up scaring them away.

Not the professional way of photographing birds where it uses "bazooka-like" lenses, I used my 35mm fixed lens so no zoom was available. I needed to get close as possible to my object. This pigeon was different and it looks like it was posing. It was not a scared bird at all.

Here goes the result.
 
Settings: Nikon D40, f5.6, 1/200sec., ISO 200
Post process: convert RAW to JPEG file and cropped with LR2, watermarked with Picmarkr

Settings: Nikon D40, f5.6, 1/200sec., ISO 200
Post process: convert RAW to JPEG file and cropped with LR2, watermarked with Picmarkr

13 comments:

  1. Nice capture on bird's eye.

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  2. I like the colors of the bird's feather. Was it post processed or all natural?

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  3. @Greg - Thanks! The bird was such a good model.

    @Jerome - Thanks to you too. Those were natural colors. The sun was too high and I guess that's the reason why it was so dominant.

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  4. Birds are one of the most challenging types of nature photography. Since the subject is usually small, may not stay still, moves rapidly from branch to branch, sits in less than favorable lighting conditions and is extremely aware of an approaching photographer. So bird photography can be frustrating as well as rewarding.

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  5. Do you mind sharing where is this location? I'm also in Abu Dhabi but found only common colored pigeons (Black, Grey and White).

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  6. amazing behaviour - cool shot!

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  7. I love birds and used to collect photographs of birds on the web. It's great you feature this in your weekly photo project.

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  8. Stunning, detailed shot.

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  9. Bird watching, bird ringing... good bird photography.

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  10. It seems to be enjoying it Paps. A feather detailed shot again.

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