The eyes have it

[CountDavid]

A selection from the 21st birthday event at Tackley yesterday

[Dave s]

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Cracking set Dave

[CountDavid]

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Thanks Dave

[anderson.council]

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Nice set Count.

They were amazing birds to see close up. I posted my set under Events. I was there between about 11:30 and 13:30 so we might well have got in each other's way

Scott

[CountDavid]

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Nice set Count.

I was there between about 11:30 and 13:30

Scott

I was there at time too (Saturday) but did not spot anyone with blue glasses and green hair

David

[Stan]

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With captive birds always best to crop in close as with these but the depth of field is a bit too narrow and they all look a bit soft - that may of course be due to direct uploading from your computer which none times out od ten ruins an image. As i have said so many times now, get yourself a flickr account and link your shots from there, they will look much better

stan

[CountDavid]

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Thanks Stan - advice noted but probably will not be acted on - I have a "thing" about Flikr and similar sites

David

[Nathaniel]

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The "eyes" really have it here. Good set of pics with concentration on the "eyes"! An interesting aspect of photography.

[Stan]

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I have a "thing" about Flikr and similar sites

why ? - I have over 4000 shots on flickr without any problem. If you are worried, then do as i do, only upload a low res version ( I do 900px on the longest side), then at that size, even if you are unlucky enough to have problems with theft etc there is not a lot anyone can do with them

It is a quirk of this forum that uploading direct degrades shots, dont know why, so if you want your photos to be displayed at their best, then you need to consider another way of uploading

Stan

[CountDavid]

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why ?
Stan

I will give it some more thought

David

[tesarver]

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Nice set David

Tom

[Brian Sugden]

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Nice set David. Not sure what camera and lens you're using, but it may be worth stopping down to get more of the head sharp.

Brian

[CountDavid]

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Thanks for the comment Brian. I forgot to add the cmaera/lens detail
All shot on a 1D3 with a 100 mmm macro 2.8.
I wanted to keep the focus on the eyes so used a wide aperture (f3.5) but I think a little smaller would have been useful.
Some of the pix taken were dumped as the focus point sometimes caught the fine feathers around the eye - a smaller aperture would have saved a few of those.

David