Daily piccies vol 366

I like the framing of the Chipping Sparrow.

Several Pine Warblers were here.

One of my rarer visitors, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.

And my last one for now, a Tufted Titmouse. Sweet little things.

Hack

You are right, they are flitting around here with Chickadees, they love landing for just a sec or two and then they are gone, but they don't stay gone for long. By the way, is Starlings mean to other birds? I didn't see any indications that they were scaring the other birds. They were all eating together, and the Starling is pretty with the sun shining on his back, he was almost shining. The sun hits him just right and he is almost incandescent with his coloring. I think that is the first time I have seen them here, I put him down as a lifer because that was the first picture I have taken of him. Is that the way you said it was done? When you take a picture that is a lifer?

love all the pics! Burd... I am a photographer & am curious when you mentioned 1/2000.... I've never heard of that..but then again I am a "die hard" film person so you probably have a digital camera...right??
I would have to put mine on a tripod then "push" the film to a higher speed for that to happen.

A great idea though with the fill in flash!!

Cute one of the Titmouse Hack!

In a little while:

***2dCousinDave will be starting the new Daily Bird Pics thread****

And... For me , at least, film development takes far too long. I gave up film in the '80's when I got tired of waiting a week to get the prints or slides back and having to pay for throw away's. Now I have a delete button.
And we used to think ASA 400 was fast film. Now they make cameras with ISO settings above 10,000.

But best of all, there's nothing like posting a picture here less than 5 minutes after you shoot it.

At my age it's all about instant gratification.

This message was edited Dec 28, 2010 12:29 AM

Just sitting here playing around, waiting for this thread to hit 135.
I had two bluebirds perched close together yesterday and I was determined to get both of them in focus, so I spun the f stop to f/32, which brought the shutter speed down to 1/100. Well, they sat still and they are almost in focus but in the bargain I have a very distacting background. Like so:

What did I do? Well, first I created two copies. With one I removed the background. I blurred the second using gaussian blur, then created a kaleidoscope effect. Then I laid the first one on top of the blurred one and here is the result:

Nice shots all!! Well Dave I'll get it to 135 posts for you...lol. More messing with the flash today.

Tried for some action today.

Sorry Dave thought you may be done...nice editing...and both birds in focus to me.

an odd capture...lol

House Sparrow...

Got 2 in focus..lucky...lol

Brown Creeper...bird is so hard to get a clean shot of...I have to post what I get...lol

male Downy woodpecker...

Thanks Burd. Let's tie a knot in this one and start a new thread. Then I'll be back with a link once it is set up.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1146616/

This message was edited Dec 28, 2010 1:51 AM

wanted this shot to be better...Northern Cardinal

Ok Dave...last shot...sun tomorrow...Blue Jay

Beautiful shots Dave and Burd!!!!!


Now onto the NEW THREAD http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1146616/