A sitting with Blackie and Robin

[Treff]

A sitting with Blackie by treff, on Flickr



Robin by treff, on Flickr

[tesarver]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

wow

Tom

[fadetoblack]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

...they are almost 'surreal' shots Treff !
I like them

I see from exif data that the focal length was 400mm; are they cropped at all ?

Fred D.

[ST-EOS]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

Great clarity on those two

I've never seen a blackbird with a beak like that before.

[DeeGee]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

Great detail.

[Stan]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

Makes a change to see close ups of these small birds and you got lots of detail, however i think they are a tad oversharpened and the background looks a bit noisey possibly because you sharpened the whole shot rather than just the bird ?

Stan

[mikep]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

I've never seen a blackbird with a beak like that before.

That's what I thought... I thought it was a cross-breed between a Blackbird and a Crossbill! lol

Great shots, excellent clarity, very impressive. No EXIF posted with the shots, shame that, I too would like to know what crop these were.

Nice ones, well done. Mike.

[fadetoblack]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

You'll find the exif data on flickr. That where I got the focal length from Mike !

Fred D

[Treff]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

Many thanks for all the comments and for looking. All very much appreciated. I always try to look for a newish prospective when taking birds and I am still evaluating new 400mm lens which I have found excellent so far. The only draw back of course is the 5/6 aperture but in good light this lens sings and I am more than impressed. The 2 pics are crops the Robin being the biggest. The background noise comes from manipulating the background colour a tad to much to surpress a rather dire shade of something I did not like.
Just one thing which I hope someone can explain to me is, how do you transfere EXIF with pic from Flickr to this forum I keep forgetting to add it to the caption.
Again many thanks. The pics by the way were taken using a monopod which because of old age I really need. In saying that I have the ability to look back over 20 years to pics I took all that time ago and I shook just as much then as now. Something in the beer I think.
Cheers
Treff

[Hereford_EOS]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

Treff; I am totally envious of your birds, great detail

[oldbaldgit]

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[Tareq]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

Heavily cropped?

[AndyMackie]

Re: A sitting with Blackie and Robin

Excellent, Treff, especially the blackbird. I'm visited regularly by a pair of crows and really struggle with getting the detail - you have most definitely figured out how to do that. Very nice
Andy