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Finally Figured It Out...with help

bonanza bucko - 10-23-2010 at 08:52 AM

With all kindsa help I finally figured out how to post a photo here from Photobucket with my iMac. So here goes, I hope...two shots of Sea Birds at Gonzaga Bay:
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pacside - 10-23-2010 at 09:01 AM

WOW very very cool. Those birds are beautiful. Nice photography. What type of birds are they?

bonanza bucko - 10-23-2010 at 09:03 AM

Top one is a Brown (I think) Pelican in winter plumage and bottom one is a Blue Herron...his name is Old Sneaky because he sneaks up our beach at low tide most evenings.

bonanza bucko - 10-23-2010 at 09:11 AM

The First One is Charlie...he drops clams on my roof every morning about 0500 to wake me up. The Second One is Darth Vader..he and his buddies steal fish in flight all day long from Sea Gulls. The Last One is of a bunch of Gulls thinking about stealing fish from a Panguero at first light.
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DENNIS - 10-23-2010 at 09:12 AM

That was well worth waiting for. Thanks.

bajalearner - 10-23-2010 at 09:16 AM

Beautiful photography. Thanks

vandenberg - 10-23-2010 at 09:17 AM

Great pics. Glad you got it.:biggrin:

woody with a view - 10-23-2010 at 09:29 AM

about time! and great shots are really worth waiting for...... what kind of camera are you using?

shari - 10-23-2010 at 09:36 AM

oh goodie...now we are going to be treated to more great photos!!! i LOVE the cool white circles in the water below that pelican with his attractive breeding red colour on his pouch...way cool!

bonanza bucko - 10-23-2010 at 09:56 AM

For Woody:

I use both a Canon EOS 7D and a Canon EOS 50D camera. The lens for these shots was a Canon EOS 100-400 f4-5.6L, IS...with the 1.6:1 crop on these cameras that makes a lens of 160 to 640 MM....you can really reach out a touch the birdies.

DianaT - 10-23-2010 at 10:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bonanza bucko
For Woody:

I use both a Canon EOS 7D and a Canon EOS 50D camera. The lens for these shots was a Canon EOS 100-400 f4-5.6L, IS...with the 1.6:1 crop on these cameras that makes a lens of 160 to 640 MM....you can really reach out a touch the birdies.


Wow and wow! Those are great!

That lens is a really nice one. The longest I have is the 70-200 f2.8 with one extender--and it just is not a long as I would like. But how heavy is that 100-400 lens?

Those are really great----My favorite is looking down on the pelican and I imagine you were using a polarizer?

Sure glad you figured out how to post the photos!

DENNIS - 10-23-2010 at 10:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bonanza bucko
For Woody and DENNIS:

I use both a Canon EOS 7D and a Canon EOS 50D camera. The lens for these shots was a Canon EOS 100-400 f4-5.6L, IS...with the 1.6:1 crop on these cameras that makes a lens of 160 to 640 MM....you can really reach out a touch the birdies.



Not to mention that you were shooting bullet fast as well.
I recently bought a 50D with one lens and found out all my Canon FD lenses can be put to use with a ten dollar converter, which I got.

DENNIS - 10-23-2010 at 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by DianaT
My favorite is looking down on the pelican and I imagine you were using a polarizer?




Maybe not. A Polarizer will cut out water reflection and he has plenty of that.
Just my guess.

That particular shot should be January in his upcoming calendar. Eleven more to go.

DianaT - 10-23-2010 at 10:17 AM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
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Originally posted by DianaT
My favorite is looking down on the pelican and I imagine you were using a polarizer?




Maybe not. A Polarizer will cut out water reflection and he has plenty of that.
Just my guess.



Will be interesting to know. :yes:

bonanza bucko - 10-23-2010 at 10:31 AM

The Canon 100-400 IS is pretty heavy..but worth it, I think.

I also have the Canon EOS 70-200 f4L IS which is tack sharp and not heavy at all....I know it's lighter than the 70-200 f2.8L that you have but it ain't a 2.8 lens either! I make up for the lack of speed with ISO...see below.

I made a mistake about the Pelican in the water...that was shot with a Canon EOS 24-105 f:4L IS and I was not using a polarizer...just got lucky with the lighting. The 24-105 is my general walking around lens. I love it.

I also use the following Canon lenes, FYI:

10-22 f:4..this is not and "L" (professional) lens like the others but it's just as good...a superb lens for wide shots.

16-35 f:2.8L..one of the best.

18-200 f:4-5.6 IS..this is not in the same league as the others but the range of focal lengths is VERY useful...and the shots are almost as good as with an L lens if you mind your manners with it.

Re shooting fast....for the birdies I normally use ISO400 and about 1/2500 of a second. That stops them in flight and gives me all kinds of non noisy pictures. Also the 7D shoots 8 frames per second so I shoot the birds with bursts and pick out the best ones. The 50 D shoots about 6 FPS so it's just as good. These cameras also make it easy because they can "lock on" to a bird in flight and keep focus while I'm shooting despite the changes that take place...kinda cheating.

I have to fess up that I'm a camera and lens nut and that I buy good stuff whenever The Boss (wife) ain't looking

BB :-)

:bounce::bounce:

DENNIS - 10-23-2010 at 11:06 AM

My most severe dilema at this time is what to do with my film cameras. I've spent so much time with them it just doesn't seem right to put them out to pasture which should be no problem with the demise of Kodachrome.
I guess if Velvia disappears, so will my cameras. I still like film.

DianaT - 10-23-2010 at 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by bonanza bucko
The Canon 100-400 IS is pretty heavy..but worth it, I think.

I also have the Canon EOS 70-200 f4L IS which is tack sharp and not heavy at all....I know it's lighter than the 70-200 f2.8L that you have but it ain't a 2.8 lens either! I make up for the lack of speed with ISO...see below.

I made a mistake about the Pelican in the water...that was shot with a Canon EOS 24-105 f:4L IS and I was not using a polarizer...just got lucky with the lighting. The 24-105 is my general walking around lens. I love it.

I also use the following Canon lenes, FYI:

10-22 f:4..this is not and "L" (professional) lens like the others but it's just as good...a superb lens for wide shots.

16-35 f:2.8L..one of the best.

18-200 f:4-5.6 IS..this is not in the same league as the others but the range of focal lengths is VERY useful...and the shots are almost as good as with an L lens if you mind your manners with it.

Re shooting fast....for the birdies I normally use ISO400 and about 1/2500 of a second. That stops them in flight and gives me all kinds of non noisy pictures. Also the 7D shoots 8 frames per second so I shoot the birds with bursts and pick out the best ones. The 50 D shoots about 6 FPS so it's just as good. These cameras also make it easy because they can "lock on" to a bird in flight and keep focus while I'm shooting despite the changes that take place...kinda cheating.

I have to fess up that I'm a camera and lens nut and that I buy good stuff whenever The Boss (wife) ain't looking

BB :-)

:bounce::bounce:


EXPENSIVE---I just took up this hobby when we retired and I may need to go back to work to support the habit!

Thank you for ALL the information---I really appreciate people sharing what and how they shoot photos.

My Canon is the 40D and at 400ISO, in some cases, I seem to pick up quite a bit of noise---more than I should, so I must not be setting something else correctly.

The eye on that seagull is really sharp!

And you do have quite a collection of lens---and you like the 24-105 as a walk around---interesting. Right now I am using the 18-55 f/2.8 that only works on crop cameras, but I would like a little more distance.

Still paying off my macro lens, however. :lol:

bonanza bucko - 10-23-2010 at 02:50 PM

Diana:
It's my impression that the 40D is a very fine camera and that the only advantage the new ones have over it is more pixels on the chip and bells and whistles. DPReview has all kinds of input about that.

The Canon lens lineup..here: http://usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/ef_lens_...

Has the stuff to drool over. I only look at it about once a month when The Boss ain't watching:-)

bonanza bucko - 10-23-2010 at 02:58 PM

For Dennis:

I had two really good Canon film cameras and some superb lenses that just wouldn't match the digital cameras I bought a few years ago...no IS or USM focus etc. I tried to sell them or trade them at the photo store but they only offered peanuts so I gave them to my son who has digital cameras but is also a pack rat...he'll sell them about ten years after I'm dead for megabucks as antiques. "-)

I could not think of any use for them and I still wonder how I got along all those years without the digital miracles we have now.

Russ - 10-23-2010 at 05:18 PM

bonanza bucko Oh my! I'm drooling for a long lens. You've really done a spectacular job with you neighborhood birds. I'm looking forward to more from you now that you have Photobucket worked out.
Dennis, why aren't we seeing your stuff? Maybe a shot of your watering hole? A lot of us just have to imaging what kind of place you hang at.
Here's a trigger fish I caught today. Shot with a Nikon D60


captkw - 10-23-2010 at 05:24 PM

nice shots,thanks and about that fileskin trigger lb for lb one of the toughest fish in the water....p.s. sea of cortez pilican=mexican air force lol

David K - 10-23-2010 at 05:37 PM

I am so happy you got it figured out... Please keep posting your wonderful photos... they are a big joy, and your quality of photos is so good too... I hope to keep improving thanks to being inspired by Nomads like you, Ken Bondy, Diana T, Natalie Ann, and many other great photographers who share their skills here!!!

castaway$ - 10-25-2010 at 02:09 PM

Love all the pics especially the pelican, the water in the shot is very interesting, looks almost unusually thick but fluid.