wildlife photography photos

[waxen moon]

I’m the first pic

In*

[uneven musk]

No, bad light, high ISO

I'm actually really unhappy with all these pictures

[quiet nexus]

coming along great i’m going to post some here in a little

[waxen moon]

Ah ok

[slender zenith]

awesome, im not even gonna be done with my 1200 frame day processing wise and a promising place with a local friend/guide is possibly on my agenda for tomorrow

and i might be going shooting soon today

[quiet nexus]

oh god 😂

how are you going to edit that all

[slender zenith]

by my mom constantly telling me she wants to see the photos i get

#1 motivation to get it done

[quiet nexus]

well, that’s good motivation

[covert dust]

My parents do the exact same

[slender zenith]

what im watching rn

[slender zenith]

i’ve gotta let the osprey beat me because i need water

[quiet nexus]

do they just sit there for. hours

[slender zenith]

right at noon. they are most active early morning and evening

i did get him in flight, but not diving

[quiet nexus]

ah ok

[slender zenith]

which is my goal

[quiet nexus]

good luck and if u get it show me

[quiet nexus]

@slender zenith this is all i really ended up keeping from yesterday, a lot of it was really noisy or blurry

[slender zenith]

2nd 5th and 6th are my favs

blur and noise pretty normal in the d3000 series

[quiet nexus]

the blur was because i forgot to adjust my shutter speed

[slender zenith]

yeah

[quiet nexus]

the noise was only because i had thw wrong metering on so everything was underexposed

otherwise the pics would still be usable

[quiet nexus]

this is all i kept

400 to like 15

[slender zenith]

how it goes

[quiet nexus]

yup

might go out again

[slender zenith]

gonna go out again probably around 6:30

[quiet nexus]

goodluck

idk where im going to go

actually

i might go to a big garden by my house, probably a ton of birds there, and flowers.

just wish i didnt have to go alone

[slender zenith]

less presence of people more birds

[hard osprey]

bird was a bit camera shy

fun walk out though with all the birds around

think i spotted a pileated woodpecker

[slender zenith]

ooooh

im starting to think people just hit species on ebird and say they saw it

[hard osprey]

i recognize them from past sightings, sometimes i use that to identify them though

there was this white woodpecker i seen too awhile ago

[paper delta]

that’s so pretty

[slender zenith]

also robin ❤️

one if my favorites

also the bird that started my addiction to this expensive hobby

[paper delta]

[hard osprey]

the bird that got me into it was the chickadees, i like robins too

[quiet nexus]

i have a ton of robins near me

[covert dust]

I hardly ever see robins

[hard osprey]

i got this one back in winter, i think its the best one i got of a robin

gotta sneak up on them

[covert dust]

That one’s nice

[hard osprey]

thanks, theyre one of the smarter birds kind of like a mourning dove

im still hoping to find a cardinal

[covert dust]

Wow we have the opposite problem then

You can literally go anywhere where I live and find a cardinal

I have at least 2 on my feeders at any time during the day

[hard osprey]

i have these bright yellow grosbeaks, and while i like them ive never seen a cardinal irl

[covert dust]

Evening grosbeaks?

[hard osprey]

yeah

[covert dust]

Oo nice they’re cool

[slender zenith]

i think best i got was the one i did on my canon powershot when i first dod photography

[slender zenith]

osprey already eating once i got here, will see if anything happens

offering me the best views

[vivid moon]

wish i'd had a longer lens for this one, i think it's a flycatcher but i'm not sure

[slender zenith]

thats a flycatcher. cool catch

[vivid moon]

they're neat little birds, and easier to get on a branch than warblers

[slender zenith]

warblers are Grade A pain in the butt

[vivid moon]

beautiful little things, emphasis on "little"

good luck getting it in the lens and in focus in the half-second it stays still

[slender zenith]

they stay still a whole half second for you?

[vivid moon]

only on Tuesdays!

[quiet nexus]

what a... nice angle

i just got done with a ton of pics ill be posting here

[slender zenith]

must be some good snacks down there

[quiet nexus]

lmao

it stayed down for a while too

[slender zenith]

my phone doesn’t know what a duck is

ill have to find my favorite duck pic later then

[quiet nexus]

how is duck a car

silly phone

i didnt know you did automotive

[slender zenith]

“duck”

[quiet nexus]

bro what

[vivid moon]

speaking of snacks

[slender zenith]

not mine, its for an online game in another server where we crop and guess the car. i didn’t take those, just google images haha

[quiet nexus]

oh ok

[slender zenith]

ive never actually seen a goose with a fish

that’s cool

[slender zenith]

aww

❤️

[vivid moon]

this was in winter below a dam, i think they were eating anything they could get

not much plant life to eat

[slender zenith]

true

[quiet nexus]

cropped

@slender zenith remember when i was talking about the "shot" thats going to get me hooked

yeah... i got it today

[uneven musk]

Fun story, I was recently on a trip to the east coast where we get drift ice, but it was quite late in the season so most of it was gone. But one morning I saw a bunch of what I thought was drift ice on a river. And I shout at my partner "Look! Drift ice!" And they're all "What? Where?" And I point at the river. And then they say "That's not drift ice, those are swan butts."

[slender zenith]

yeah

[slender zenith]

🤣🤣

[quiet nexus]

lmfao 😂

[slender zenith]

this made my night

yo can we get a pin on that

[quiet nexus]

what do you think of the picture

[slender zenith]

i love this

[uneven musk]

Not from me. 😛

[slender zenith]

who shall i ping

[quiet nexus]

@mild needle pin this

sir

[quiet nexus]

dw i got it

[slender zenith]

[quiet nexus]

ced will pin it

[quiet nexus]

ty

[slender zenith]

screenshot forever

[quiet nexus]

thr wing was out of focus because it was on single point focus but otherwise... good pic

should i not use single point

[slender zenith]

not for several subjects

[quiet nexus]

or a big subject?

because the whole wing was out of focus

[slender zenith]

can you remind me what modes the d3200 has

[quiet nexus]

or is my aperture too wide

not sure

[slender zenith]

aperture helps but a single weighted focus point like that isnt much either unless its dead center

@quiet nexus i meant AF modes MB

[quiet nexus]

yeah lol

[uneven musk]

You know I can delete your messages right? >.>

[mild needle]

[quiet nexus]

whos

[uneven musk]

I'm not gonna, but I could.

[mild needle]

anyones

[quiet nexus]

yes ced pin this

[slender zenith]

mod abuse uWu

[quiet nexus]

yes, what message would u delete

[uneven musk]

This one 😛
#984588380681687090 message

[quiet nexus]

oh

[slender zenith]

doesn’t mean i dont have it

[quiet nexus]

still has the ss

[mild needle]

they have the screencap that's the thing yeah

the hard drive of souvenirs

I do that all the time

[uneven musk]

That's a good point

[slender zenith]

yep

[quiet nexus]

screencap

[uneven musk]

Still not pinning it 😛

[mild needle]

no I am not

[quiet nexus]

why

oh

either noisy or not sharp

had to crop a ton

probably wont keep this pic

[mild needle]

let's find that idiotic deer from tonight

[slender zenith]

i will insert derpy deer for this occasion

[quiet nexus]

bokeh

[slender zenith]

yes

[mild needle]

you were pretty close I see

[uneven musk]

I took a derpy deer picture yesterday, but it was at dusk and so noisy I don't want to post it.

[slender zenith]

they are hella easy when they freeze at the sight of any car in a 69 mile radius

[mild needle]

maybe if I don't move I will be left alone

[slender zenith]

all my successes with deer have been through my car window

i mean if i start moving they jump in fromt of the the car

[mild needle]

idiots

[uneven musk]

Driving around Hokkaido is how I got into wildlife photography

[slender zenith]

they dont win intelligence awards

lol

[quiet nexus]

whats Hokkaido

[uneven musk]

I literally had a deer walk, very slowly, in front of my car and just staaaaaaaaaare at me

[mild needle]

deers are idiotic and we need to help natural selection

[uneven musk]

Northernmost island of Japan

[quiet nexus]

oh

[slender zenith]

now take that and do it at 65 moh

mph

[quiet nexus]

wait a min u live in japan?

[mild needle]

we need to run em over until natural selection keeps the intelligent ones

[slender zenith]

summary of driving in Virginia, USA

[quiet nexus]

rip your cap

car*

[slender zenith]

they breed to fast

[uneven musk]

Yeah, fortunately this was right in after I had pulled out of a parking lot so I was still going slow.

[mild needle]

that's why driving tanks will become mandatory

[uneven musk]

Because at the time, my car's zero to 60 was "Yes."

[uneven musk]

Yes.

[quiet nexus]

dude thats so cool

[uneven musk]

I mean... it's a place I live.

[slender zenith]

0-60 in 60 years

#BrickSUVOwner gang

[quiet nexus]

i know but to someone whos never been out of usa its cool

[uneven musk]

As soon as you can, travel. Totally worth it.

[quiet nexus]

i live in indiana lol

[vivid moon]

Get ye to Europe

The City Germans all speak English

[uneven musk]

Suzuki Every, aerodynamics and handling characteristics of a brick and the acceleration of a sloth on morphine.

[slender zenith]

idk. i wanna see canada and alaska

[vivid moon]

I live in Ohio, it’s doable

[slender zenith]

i have so many places i gotta see in the USA first

[slender zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/deer-scream-funny-gif-4408151

[vivid moon]

“Oh, deer”

[slender zenith]

run

[vivid moon]

Mulies are barely deer, they’re small elk

[quiet nexus]

is this keepable?

[vivid moon]

Oh yeah

[quiet nexus]

because i got many more sharp and better ones

today i realized i 100% want to stick with wildlife photography

[slender zenith]

get those highlights turned down and definitely

[quiet nexus]

theyre down all the way

ill turn whites down

[slender zenith]

it takes a lot of learning but once you get it tou get it

could try masking subject and doing it or selective brush the face and further adjust

[quiet nexus]

i cant imaging the level of photo i could get when i get a longer lens

[slender zenith]

a super telephoto is a game changer

i woulda quit if i kept on going with a 70-300 any longer than i did

[vivid moon]

How long a focal length do you use?

[slender zenith]

me?

sigma 150-600 on aps-c

[quiet nexus]

55-200

ik its horrible

[vivid moon]

Nah

[quiet nexus]

im going to invest in a 150-600 like smoky probably

[vivid moon]

I use a 70-210 it’s limiting but the images can be nice

Just have to get closer to the bird

Will be looking at a prime 300 though

[slender zenith]

on a 70-300 this bird would have been a dirt spec

closest could physically get

and room for nice crop

[slender zenith]

getting something wigh a wide focal range like 200-500 or 150-600 is my recommendation for anyone looking to take wildlife and/or birding (especially birding) serious

[uneven musk]

300mm is the bare-minimum and still very challenging.

[slender zenith]

yeah

ever since i got my sigma i have used my 70-300 once. ONCE

only because i was doing sea scapes when i spotted a sea turtle so i didn’t bring the sigma that day

[uneven musk]

When a 600 becomes available on X-mount, I will likely sell my 100-400 and never look back

Maybe

[slender zenith]

bow sigma comes everywhere even a portrait session

[uneven musk]

Because the 100-400 is hot

[quiet nexus]

im using eval metering and my pics of black birds keep coming out so underexposed i cant save it

i would use spot here but i dont want to change my metering every single photo

[slender zenith]

mind shooting me the raw

[quiet nexus]

sure

[vivid moon]

I also shoot aircraft, so anything I buy works for both ideally

A 600 would be nice for stuff up at 35K feet

[quiet nexus]

you can kinda save the bird but it turns purple

[slender zenith]

yeah ill get on my laptop in a few

[vivid moon]

Redwings are a pain tbh

[quiet nexus]

they let me get so close

raw ofc but i dont think swans like them either

[uneven musk]

Swans are angrier, larger geese

[slender zenith]

any solid black or solid white bird is automatically a pain

does exposure comp effect raw in camera

idk i still do it by instinct

[quiet nexus]

yea but it shouldnt bc im using eval metering

[vivid moon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/940588039837720626/986793446989770812/eriebird1.jpg

anyone have an idea what this is?

[quiet nexus]

a cute bird

[vivid moon]

i don't have my copy of Sibley handy

[slender zenith]

i know and i always forget its name

umm

some finch i think

house finch?

[vivid moon]

could've been, yeah

it was large, was the main thing i found odd

[slender zenith]

google image not mine

[quiet nexus]

thats so cute

love birds

[vivid moon]

oh it's a female redwing

not mine

[slender zenith]

aww

yeah was a bit big

[quiet nexus]

no wonder i see so many of them

[uneven musk]

Possibly a female red-winged blackbird?

[quiet nexus]

ye

s

[slender zenith]

yeah

[uneven musk]

Oh, oops, way behind

[quiet nexus]

lol\

[slender zenith]

i suck at small bird identification

but i love them all so much

[uneven musk]

Google lens is my savior

[quiet nexus]

i suck at bird id

[slender zenith]

i think this is a house finch

idk. such a common color across species

[vivid moon]

finches are about that size, ja

[slender zenith]

yeah

this is a type of swallow i forgot what

only small bird to let me get close

but unfortunately it was thick woods

as seen

[uneven musk]

Not to be too braggy, but I had to step back from this lil' fella to get focus.

[slender zenith]

awww

not to brag but i caught a wild sea turtle and it wasn’t total garbage

[uneven musk]

The birds at that park were reeeeeeeally friendly

[slender zenith]

this moment was the highlight of my year last year

[uneven musk]

Hmmm

That is pretty cute

[slender zenith]

this is the one where i aaid only time i’ve touched my 70-300 since i got the sigma

[uneven musk]

This is an unedited version of my highlight of the year

[slender zenith]

@quiet nexus i think you were asking about the quality of my 70-300, that was it on my d3400

if i get an osprey diving before heading back home it will be highlight of my year

[slender zenith]

edited?

[uneven musk]

I'm out and about so I only have the original SOOC jpeg right now

[slender zenith]

ok

im going after blackbears once im back in va

[uneven musk]

Basically I just cropped it into portrait orientation because the colors were perfect.

[slender zenith]

i want something special on my portfolio

i think blackbears are good for that

i will be building a website soon so

yeah

im also gonna find experts to talk about as i want to do a native virginia wildlife series

i also want to do a photo research and article on the invasive nutria

so much i want to do

also want to do a series on virginia snake species

like right now i mainly do birds but my scope will be expanding significantly in the near future

[quiet nexus]

if u need help lmk i know a lot about coding

like a lot

[slender zenith]

[vivid moon]

a n g e r

quite a shot

[slender zenith]

the facial crop is even better

[vivid moon]

it's the eyes that make the humor

[slender zenith]

yeah

i love it

[slender zenith]

this is the largest gator i ever saw

i think. it looked huge from my perspective

on my d3400

and this gator honestly scared the living shit outta me, which is funny because down the walking path there were gators on both side.

at night with a 50mm prime

gopher tortoise

[waxen moon]

Dude I think this post has become one of the most active on the server

That’s lit

[quiet nexus]

yes

[slender zenith]

heck yeah

[covert dust]

Willets are so photogenic

[slender zenith]

awww

[hard osprey]

I got a good one of one of those blackbird today

hard to get the colour but I did this time

also encountered a new target

waxwing

[slender zenith]

aww

any time you are looking straight up it is hard to have good light

thoughts on this?

[hard osprey]

its nice, maybe it could have been angled slightly better but i know how hard birds can be for that stuff lol

baby birds are the hardest

i think im done editing this, i barely changed anything

[slender zenith]

i was just grabbing holes through trees i could get lol

[hard osprey]

thats what i figured, leaves might get in the way otherwise

[slender zenith]

there is one somewhere where i have all three have not gotten to it yet

the nest got in the way

[hard osprey]

i usually get the small birds when they just fly down but that also takes patience too

plus by then they have feathers

that one i like too

some day im hoping to get some swan photos

i think I may have herons around too

[slender zenith]

if you ever in sumter i think it is, south carolina they have a lake with the most types of swans in north america or something like that

[hard osprey]

pretty far from me lol, im in nova scotia in canada

[slender zenith]

oh wow

lol

[hard osprey]

some day i want to travel and photograph new animals

[slender zenith]

same

[hard osprey]

our herons are the grey and white kind

I dont think we have ergets from what I know

[slender zenith]

waterfowl in my home area are very few and far between

i was so excited to see one great blue heron

[hard osprey]

we have eagles, ducks, swans, geese, ospreys, swans and herons

[slender zenith]

nah i aint jealous

well i am

actually lol

[hard osprey]

i am on an island so it makes sense, lots of water

[slender zenith]

i have not seen an osprey reported in my area, eagles have been though in the cooler months

i am yet to see an eagle but my brother did

[hard osprey]

i only have this for my osprey photos

was pretty close

they look big in person

[slender zenith]

they are between hawks and bald eagles

[hard osprey]

yeah

[slender zenith]

i have some shots but they are in backlog for processing

[hard osprey]

they sound like a mouse with the chirp

[slender zenith]

still working on stuff from june 12

yeah its adorable

this guy was part of a nest and all three were chirping but i dont have a good nest shot

[hard osprey]

they build their nests up high i noticed

the one in my picture had a nest nearby above a powerline

no baby ospreys though, but you could kinda see them if they were there

[slender zenith]

ive seen nests at tops of tall cell towers

and one on top of a massive powerline at a dam

this one was the biggest most extensive nest ive seen but on an actual tree

[hard osprey]

just looked up what baby ospreys look like, now i have to see one some day lol

[slender zenith]

i love their eyes, both baby and adult

[hard osprey]

these ones are my favorite though

these are actually geese but ducks look the same

[slender zenith]

baby roseated spoonbill

the parents

roseate spoonbills are my personal favorite waterfowlss

[slender zenith]

i have not seen geese that young, did not know they started off as rubber duckies too

[hard osprey]

they look a bit funny with their beak, i dont think we have those around here but i recognize the pink

some geese are a grey fluff but canadian geese are yellow with some grey

[slender zenith]

a decent profile shot of one. some are more vibrant than others, this one actually quite pale

[hard osprey]

recently i got a photo of a baby blackbird, theyre one of the uglier birds when they are babies lol

normally they have this metallic color

bird i posted earlier with the blue head was an adult

[slender zenith]

metallic? Sounds interesting

[hard osprey]

this is the one i mean

its either this type of blackbird which was all over the place or this second type which is just a common blackbird

only see the blue in the light i find

cant think of another bird with this kind of colour, maybe a ruby throated hummingbird

[covert dust]

Could it have been a grackle?

[quiet nexus]

some day i dream to have a better setup

hopefully that day will come

[quiet nexus]

dude i love this

the colors are amazing

any pink bird is beautiful

[hard osprey]

yeah, the common grackle

[quiet nexus]

grackle

[uneven musk]

Every time someone mentions grackles I think of that one episode of Brooklyn 99 where Gina has to distract a nerdy guy by talking about birds and she compares grackles to Rihanna.

[vivid moon]

found this from, like, 6 months ago

hadn't meant for one to be flying, he just decided to leave

[rose spoke]

What lens you usually use

[vivid moon]

for this? Tokina 70-210/4.5

older manual model

[waxen moon]

Thoughts on this?

It’s unedited btw

[vivid moon]

Wish I got more ravens here, they’re expressive subjects

[proper sonnet]

come to my place, we got enough crows

[slender zenith]

crows? hit the nearest walmart parking lot

[slender zenith]

hi wildlife peeps

[covert dust]

hey

[slender zenith]

on the road rn

well actually in a parking lot at moment but will be hopping on interstate shortly

[quiet nexus]

to where

from florida?

[tardy pawn]

Did this right now

with my Fujinon 100-400mm and TC

[slender zenith]

down to Clearwater

for the weekend

its so humid

[uneven musk]

Saw some reindeer

Not really "wild" since they're on a farm...

[slender zenith]

local news did an article about a wildlife photographer locally and his work. he uses a speaker with bird sounds to re attract specific species that fly by. yall think this is cool or nah? kinda debated in ky head for awhile

[uneven musk]

I have zero problem with doing anything to attract animals

[slender zenith]

i mean it works, gets some cool stuff because of it

[hard osprey]

its not really an issue if one person does it ocasionally, becomes a problem when everyone does and it throws off their migration schedule or seperates them from more natural environments

then you get guys who hunt them in known areas and it becomes a mess

[uneven musk]

That's a good point, assuming that's actually possible

[hard osprey]

well just look at pigeons, seaguls and lots of other birds just roaming around people

sometimes people do it to regular wildlife and somoene ends up dead with the animal no longer fearing people, and usually they have to be shot or something

[uneven musk]

Yeah, that would suck

I was thinking bird calls

And dropping some acorns and walnuts in squirrel town

[hard osprey]

i think its actually prohibited to feed wildlife as in wild wildlife

not bird feeder bird

not so sure with making sounds to attract them though

[uneven musk]

We never feed directly

[hard osprey]

i think it is pretty frowned upon ethically though to bait animals just in general, but legality wise im not sure with the sounds, i know they sell deer whistles for hunters

say like an eagle sound for example, it wont hurt an eagle much being distracted, but what about a small songbird that would be prey to an eagle, may cause them to relocate or leave their babies, plus then there is a real eagle if it works

[slender zenith]

i mean if it’s ethical to use a bird feeder to attract birds is it any less ethical to use a sound to attract a specific bird on a one time occasion that you know is there, but wont pop out of the leaves?

[slender zenith]

hunters use calls. basically depend on them in some cases

[hard osprey]

difference is ones in a yard always

it could be considered baiting to pop one up in random spots, wouldnt say one time is a problem, just if everyone did it

[quiet nexus]

love clearwater

[slender zenith]

same. sadly only for a day

my fam loves the aquarium so yeah

then we headed back to JAX

one of these days im headed to winter garden. i have a friend down there that’s gonna guide me to some cool wildlife along the lake

[covert dust]

Those are pretty good!

I especially like the last two

[hard osprey]

seen a green frog today

[quiet nexus]

thank you!

[hard osprey]

I figured id crop the image I just posted in nature better, this small raccoon got spooked up a tree when I was taking its photo

was doing a bird feeder raid

[slender zenith]

i like all of these

and the cardinal

[slender zenith]

im convinced im cursed with not catching ospreys in flight

i was about to capture an older juvenile (almost full grown) dive off a pole for an attempted catch when my mom called with car trouble’s

ultimate fml moment

[robust burrow]

I see you lol

[quiet nexus]

thank you

[covert dust]

Is that a fledgling great horned owl?

Ohh wait yes it is

Didn't see the parent in the background

[slender zenith]

hes so cute

[slender zenith]

just wish the whole head was in frame 😦

[tardy pawn]

caught

[slender zenith]

[slender zenith]

dinner

unfortnately, my only other option for a better angle would have been illegally walking through a mosquito breeding clinic

i do sorta like it with his tongue sticking out

my three fav from that otherwise pretty failed day of shooting

[covert dust]

Ospreys are cool

@slender zenith I'm actually going to florida in a couple of weeks

Can't wait to visit the beaches and everglades

[slender zenith]

lucky i wanna go more south

i am yet to catch my dream osprey shot this time round

gonna get it

[covert dust]

It'll happen eventually

I also haven't been able to get my dream osprey shot

Something always gets in the way or my autofocus messes up

[slender zenith]

the osprey dont do anything when i actually have time to be there

almost adult juvenile

[covert dust]

Ah yeah that's a pain

[waxen moon]

Dayum.

Yall h ave so much interesting wildlife where you are.

[quiet nexus]

obviously not mine but what a shot

[slender zenith]

goals

[vivid moon]

a warbler sat still today

he was far away and in shadow, but he actually let me take his picture

this little chipping (?) sparrow was a lot more polite

[slender zenith]

you even getting to see it for over a half second is pure luck in and of itself

[vivid moon]

i don't know why, but they were very active today

little groups of three or four chasing each other

[slender zenith]

territorial

or fighting for a female

could be both or either

[vivid moon]

likely, yeah

they'd join up and split off in turns

[slender zenith]

ive seen male ducks basically almost drown the female while fighting each other to do the duty

[vivid moon]

ducks are frightening, them and their corkscrews

[slender zenith]

also wasnt worth a mile back to my car but muscovy duck

its huge

[vivid moon]

never seen one IRL, looks like an aquatic turkey vulture

[slender zenith]

they are a florida exclusive as far as the north america continent goes i believe

i wish my phone knew what duck was would make life easier. everything here is from google not my work btw

[vivid moon]

"a Ford Mustang is a duck"

thanks phone

[slender zenith]

yep

bagel

leica

double decker bus

modern art

duck

all the same thing

[uneven musk]

Bagel fox

[slender zenith]

doesn’t make a bad wallpaper ngl

[quiet nexus]

looks underexposed

[slender zenith]

very overcast

it might be slightly

its not like that when i open in photo app

idk why it did that

actual on top

[quiet nexus]

weird

[slender zenith]

yeah

still does when i reset it

whack

its addicted to darkening it when set as wallpaper

weird

[willow thistle]

What color profile is the image saved as? sRGB or adobeRGB?

[slender zenith]

sRGB i believe

[willow thistle]

humm I'm not sure then.

[slender zenith]

hmm

[slender zenith]

contestant for my best vertical. sry for shit quality im on a dock rn

[covert dust]

oo looks nice

[quiet nexus]

i’m kinda sad

haven got to go out and shoot in a few days

because i have no whre to go

[waxen moon]

M e neither lol

[slender lava]

pls do

[slender zenith]

yeah never got it

[slender lava]

omg same for me. my first pic was of a young robin!

[slender zenith]

the osprey i was after didn’t show himself yesterday and it was probably my last chance

however i did get a heron and an egret eating fish

[slender lava]

dm me them?

[slender zenith]

i have not edited them

[slender zenith]

cant wait to edit these

hehe

[covert dust]

that looks so cool!

I've never been able to get a good shot of an egret with a fish

[slender zenith]

this was a first for me

also have some sort of heron eating fidh

fish

[covert dust]

nice

I'll be looking forward to the final product 👀

[slender zenith]

i might go for another shoot before i edit them might be a minute

[slender zenith]

tasty golden hour

[slender zenith]

stalking a fisherman

[covert dust]

lol egrets have some weird but funny poses

[slender zenith]

lol

[slender zenith]

@covert dust what do you think of this last one, 1/1250. despite the backlight i kinda like it ngl

[covert dust]

I also dig it. The detail is quite nice, but the wing is a little too close to the top of the frame

[slender zenith]

i can see that

[covert dust]

ooo that's really nice!

[slender zenith]

thx!

[quiet nexus]

i wish i could take pics like this

i just can’t zoom in enough and have to crop a ton so it’s horrible

and the noise on my camera sucks

[tardy pawn]

I won’t zoom anymore 😅 A Canon 600 mm is on the way.

[waxen moon]

Same here.

[covert dust]

That’s going to help out a lot

I don’t know what I would do without my 150-600

[green phoenix]

Hey, is anyone into Wildlife cameras or camera traps i plan to include these in my next trip for the jungle again last time forget to buy one but not to sure whats good and not good

[reef stream]

Zion National Park

I had one where both were looking at me but it came out a little blurry

[quiet nexus]

could someone tell me what to do because sometimes when i’m trying to focus on a bird far away it doesn’t focus cus the bird is too small

[hard osprey]

i use single point af or manual focus for that

then just adjust it if needed

might be named something different on nikon

[quiet nexus]

it is single point

huh

[quiet nexus]

oh yeah

it’s on the center

[waxen moon]

Yo yo

[quiet nexus]

hold on

[tardy pawn]

First photos with Canon 600mm fixed-aperture lens@ R6

[covert dust]

Those are nice!

How are you liking the 600 so far?

[tardy pawn]

It fits for my applications. Having only F11 is not such a big drawback. But I expected this regarding a R6 as a complimentary Camera Body.

minimal focus distance is quite long.

estimated from the experience today 5-6 meters.

[hard osprey]

i was pretty close to buying that lens for my r6 myself, seems pretty nice

i got the rf macro first

teleprimes seem fun

[spiral falcon]

nikonp520

[waxen moon]

Nice pics

[hard osprey]

not quite what i was going after but it waved at me

[waxen moon]

Nice!

[woeful stag]

I've been feeling like I'm not improving in my photography lately, in part because I don't get harsh feedback so please, tear me to shreds, any improvements you think I could make would be really helpful

[waxen moon]

Lmao I’m a amateur but I’ll try

[waxen moon]

Well there’s lens flare top right unless it’s something else

[woeful stag]

the biggest thing for this shot is I didn't have proper diffused lighting

oh, you're right

HM

[waxen moon]

Would you be able to criticise some of mine?

[woeful stag]

sure

[woeful stag]

so hold on, let me get you a video

[waxen moon]

Those are two recent ones

[waxen moon]

This one’s cropped I can send the original if you wish

[woeful stag]

ugh I hope i saved this video lol

found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxGwNVNrB64

[waxen moon]

Ooo looks useful. I’ll have a watch

[woeful stag]

so speaking very generally, those are great shots, though you're not sending them in full res

for the second one, and generally as a rule of thumb for nature photography, you want to accentuate your edits so that the eye pops

the second one also makes a common mistake let me find the term

[waxen moon]

Alrighty

[woeful stag]

terms to familiarize yourself with:

dynamic tension
photography distraction zone, and zone systems https://fstoppers.com/education/how-use-ansel-adams-zone-system-digital-world-417047
photographic edge merger https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/tips-techniques/photo-tip-of-week/composition-avoid-mergers/

the zone system is especially relevant when you're putting something in black and white

or otherwise doing heavy editing, or have a lot of control over how the light is hitting the shot

less often in wildlife photography

front and center is good for portrait style shots but otherwise you want an element of dynamic tension

because in a sense you're telling a story, not just taking a photo

it's not a hard and fast rule though ofc

especially when you're trying to lead the eye in a shot with movement, it's a helpful tool

[waxen moon]

I was doing some stuff I’m Back now

[waxen moon]

What was that term?

[woeful stag]

oh, edge merger and clutter on the border (distraction zone)

[waxen moon]

Ah okay

I thought that added depth

I was wrong

Alrighty thanks for the feedback

I think I took one that didn’t have clutter

I didn’t edit it though

@woeful stag any photos you want feedback on?

[woeful stag]

mostly the thing lacking in your shot is lack of a story

lemme show you some shots from a friend of mine

[waxen moon]

Sheesh

Wait so how long have you been doing photography?

[woeful stag]

see how it leads the viewer to ask questions

uh maybe 2 years

[woeful stag]

these aren't mine, I'm showing examples of how you can prompt curiosity in the viewer

[waxen moon]

I’ve been doing it for probably a year to a year and a half

So since I was 12

[waxen moon]

Nice

[woeful stag]

awesome from a technical perspective there's nothing wrong with them

a lot of photography is considering why something you're shooting appeals to a viewer

[waxen moon]

Ima start focusing more on composition

[woeful stag]

also the feedback that I'm giving you isn't stuff that I've fully incorporated into my own shots lol

im still learning too

[waxen moon]

Yh

[woeful stag]

here's one of mine

harsh critique welcome

[waxen moon]

Nice

This may just be personal opinion, but I feel the photos overwhelming Becuase of the amount of subjects flooding the image

[woeful stag]

that's true

i don't have good subject separation there either

[covert dust]

That detail is amazing!

Highlights on the sand/dirt are a little strong though

[woeful stag]

Yeah, it's really contrasty.. editing is probably where I can make the most gains in terms of improvement

[uneven musk]

Feral cats count as wildlife right?

[waxen moon]

Any living creature

So yep 👍

[waxen moon]

Except obviously humans

[uneven musk]

I know some pretty wild humans

[hard osprey]

found a few fledglings, pictures are hard to work with

[pure flume]

I mean it's an animal :).

[vivid moon]

many, in fact

[covert dust]

Not exactly photography but here’s a little video of a lost vulture fledgling that we’ve been trying to take care of. We don’t know if he just left his nest or was abandoned by parents.

[woeful hill]

These are two photos I found during a trip to an outer floridian island.

[raven nacelle]

Some of my recent favorites

[covert dust]

I love those! The squirrel is so cute

[uneven musk]

All of those are freaking epic

[reef stream]

I had some awesome squirrel pics on my home pc..
I'll try to remember when I get back

[raven nacelle]

Thanks guys! Wildlife is awesome 😆

Sadly seems like the low res versions got uploaded, but the general idea is there

[rustic dock]

Watching the other birds in the tree

[waxen moon]

That is crisp

[shrewd garnet]

That's such a great photo!

Birb photo

[vivid moon]

shot

chaser

[hard osprey]

had this in my yard, only picture i got

[willow thistle]

I love the bird pic!

[raven nacelle]

Thanks, one of my favorites!

[vivid moon]

found in the neighbor's yard

[hard osprey]

thought this was a dove duo, but not quite

[covert dust]

Haha definitely not a dove

[waxen moon]

Nice

[waxen moon]

Shit iPhone picture

[robust spear]

which nikon dslr?

but this pic is amazing

[covert dust]

If I remember correctly he uses a D500

[olive solar]

I'd be scared for life after once being attacked by one

[robust spear]

oo i see.. its an amazing camera..

[vivid moon]

I wonder where he went

[odd palm]

first post

[vivid moon]

some gulls in their natural habitat

[maiden berry]

don't worry, I got one for you!

[pure flume]

hello guys! Just got back from a trip to Africa. Got some nice pics which I will slowly share!

this one is my pride and joy

[covert dust]

Those are really nice!

The lion one is stunning

[vast echo]

Here are a few from a recent safari trip. let me know what you think!

[vast echo]

What lens were you using? Great shots!

[waxen moon]

Been on holiday by the beach, taken photos of all sorts of widlife, will post slowly, got a fuxk ton of manual exporting to so

[vivid moon]

a female American Redstart

odd name, as she's yellow