Bird Reflections On The Water
Jan 8, 2013 19:13:25 #
I enjoy making images of birds and their reflections on water. I actually get a rush from it ... what can I say, it's just me....
One thing that I have learned about catching a good, maybe great reflection is that while I normally try and get down to eye level as often as possible, a reflection works much better when I am above "birds eye" level
Here are few of my Bird Reflection images. Please post reflection images of your own.
One thing that I have learned about catching a good, maybe great reflection is that while I normally try and get down to eye level as often as possible, a reflection works much better when I am above "birds eye" level
Here are few of my Bird Reflection images. Please post reflection images of your own.
Wood Duck (male)
Wood Duck (female)
Florida Mottled Duck
Mute Swan
Common Moorhen
Pied-billed Grebe (not a reflection)
Jan 8, 2013 19:25:36 #
Jan 8, 2013 21:01:01 #
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula).
Photographed in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve (through a chain-link fence), Huntington Beach CA.
Tripod-mounted Nikon D90 at ISO 200 with Nikkor 500-mm Reflex lens, 1/200-sec at f/10, late afternoon sun.
Photographed in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve (through a chain-link fence), Huntington Beach CA.
Tripod-mounted Nikon D90 at ISO 200 with Nikkor 500-mm Reflex lens, 1/200-sec at f/10, late afternoon sun.
A Snowy Egret Contemplating His Own Reflection
Jan 8, 2013 21:36:35 #
Well Done Bob! It is always nice to see the entire reflection included in the picture. So many people cut that off and lose a beautiful part of the composition.
Horned Grebe, diving
Horned Grebe
Black-necked Stilt
Great Egret
Jan 9, 2013 03:49:17 #
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Jan 11, 2013 17:27:10 #
lighthouse wrote:
Superb composition.Australian Pelican - Pelecanus conspicillatus
Jan 11, 2013 18:12:32 #
Jan 12, 2013 00:40:47 #
lighthouse
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Nikonian72 wrote:
Thank you Douglass.Superb composition.
I was a bit lucky in how simple I could keep it. The pelican was in full sun but the reflected background was in deep shade.
Jan 12, 2013 00:46:27 #
lighthouse
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BHowdy - love that male wood duck and that is such and exquisite background reflection.
Douglass - the way that squiggly beak is pointing back at his head is great, and the single-mindedness of the egret and what he is doing. A study in concentration.
Birdpix - just love the abstract qualities of that diving grebe.
Douglass - the way that squiggly beak is pointing back at his head is great, and the single-mindedness of the egret and what he is doing. A study in concentration.
Birdpix - just love the abstract qualities of that diving grebe.
Jan 12, 2013 00:50:41 #
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Jan 12, 2013 14:21:05 #
NikonLad - I really like your unique capture of Great Egret dipping wingtip.
Jan 12, 2013 15:28:50 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Thanks. That is one of my favorites, too.NikonLad - I really like your unique capture of Great Egret dipping wingtip.
Jan 12, 2013 16:22:57 #
lighthouse
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Nikonian72 wrote:
I like that one too - but I don't understand how the reflection of the wingtip doesn't meet the splash properly. NikonLad - I really like your unique capture of Great Egret dipping wingtip.
There are two or three feathers fully in the water that don't meet the water in the reflection.
Has this meeting of the wingtip and water been done in postwork?
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