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Title: My Bird Picture
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 18, 2008, 11:54:54 PM
 Here's a picture of one of the birds on our feeder. I was trying to get some pictures of the birds flying, as they make very good action shots. (I didn't get any)

I did have to crop and enlarge the picture a little to get it the right size.

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Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: shutterbugmom on June 19, 2008, 12:07:47 AM
Oh, Scottyboy,

He's adorable!  That's a House Finch.  Aren't they fun?  I'm working on post processing some new bird pics I took today, right now.
Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: larryboy07 on June 19, 2008, 01:09:13 PM
I put up a canary feeder, and the little stinkers went through it in about two weeks, I put two more up yeasterday....God bless em

LarryBoy
Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 19, 2008, 01:48:29 PM
Good close up, Larryboy!

Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 19, 2008, 01:49:17 PM
Quote from: shutterbugmom on June 19, 2008, 12:07:47 AM
Oh, Scottyboy,

He's adorable!  That's a House Finch.  Aren't they fun?  I'm working on post processing some new bird pics I took today, right now.


Looking forward to seeing them.
Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: shutterbugmom on June 19, 2008, 02:47:28 PM
Quote from: larryboy07 on June 19, 2008, 01:09:13 PM
I put up a canary feeder, and the little stinkers went through it in about two weeks, I put two more up yeasterday....God bless em

LarryBoy

I could be wrong but your canaries, looking at their markings and such, look just like what I've identified in my yard as American Goldfinches.    :thinking:
Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 19, 2008, 03:03:47 PM
I looked at a picture of the American Goldfinch in our encyclopedia, and shutterbugmom is right. They are not Canaries, they are American Goldfinches. They are also our Washington state bird.
Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: shutterbugmom on June 19, 2008, 03:12:48 PM
Okay, Scottyboy, here are a few from yesterday.  I didn't bother to crop the first one.  These were fast processing.  Didn't want to spend too much time on them.  After all, I took these through the window...which needs cleaning.  Oh, and I have another of one little guy that's just endearing.  I don't have it as a jpeg yet, though.

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Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 19, 2008, 03:20:01 PM
Great bird pictures! I really like the one of the bird in the tree.

What photo editing program do you use? I use Digital Photo Professional.
Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: shutterbugmom on June 19, 2008, 03:47:51 PM
Thanks.  The one in the tree I've been practicing to get for a while.  They are still for such a short time and with the light and the shadow, many times I get silhouettes cause they moved or something. 

For initial weeding out, I use Zoombrowser because it's easy to put several pictures up at once and see which is best, especially when I have shot several frames in a row and they are similar.  You can sync them and enlarge them and choose the best focused one or whatever.

I use Photoshop CS2 for the rest of my processing.  I was going to upgrade to CS3, but I think I will get Lightroom instead because it was made by and for photographers and works along with CS2.

I have used DPP a couple of times, too, but it's been a while.  I think that's the one I was using for index printing.
Title: Re: My Bird Picture
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 19, 2008, 06:26:45 PM
I've been trying to get GIMP for my image editing, but I need to upgrade my Mac program to X11.