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Let's Eat!!

© Susan K. Snow

Let's Eat!!

Uploaded: November 30, 2011

Description

BP Monthly Theme: Let's Eat
PG 101 Friendship Theme.

Awaiting friends before they begin their feeding frenzy.

Reworked in 2011 with newly learned techniques and Color Efex Pro3 Complete.

Created 11-14-2009 @ 3:55:24 p.m.
Created in photoshop 11-28-2011
F4.0 @1/2000th sec.
partial metering
ISO 1600
Manual Exposure
Focal length 131.0 of 70-200mm f4L USM lens
Flash off
TRIPOD with 8# ballast
Captured from bathroom window with window glass up!

Exif: F Number: 4, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/2000 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 1600, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 131.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 50D

Comments

Jillian Danielson November 30, 2011

Nice job Susan! You captured the motion perfectly! #1426876

Donna La Mattino Pagakis November 30, 2011

Wow, very nice Bunny. Perfect for the theme, outstanding work. Good luck! #9839919

Nikki McDonald level-classic November 30, 2011

Very very nice, Bunny. I love mourning doves and usually find them very graceful, but I must admit they are very awkward and clumsy looking when they try to land on my feeder like this. Your tones and focus are very pleasing and I like this a lot. #9839920

Bunny Snow November 30, 2011

Thank you, Jillian. You captured my posting quickly. This came out so much better than the image posted yesterday. I knew if I took all day to work on this I'd get more true color and it worked. The image was captured almost three years ago, but reworked after taking a class from Lewis Kemper, in which I learned better techniques to bring up the tonality.

Thanks for you comment. #9839926

Chris Budny level-deluxe November 30, 2011

Nice work, Bunny! #9840007

Susan K. Snow November 30, 2011

Thank you all for your comments and good wishes. There's nothing like a freshly reworked image to awaken our senses. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Happy theme day everyone!!! #9840030

Dr Silly level-classic November 30, 2011

Wonderful capture. :O) #9840121

Michele Peterson level-classic November 30, 2011

Wow, Bunny, the details and whole capture of this is just incredible. I love these birds, but they don't pose for me like these did for you! This is wonderful, I love the one with it's wings out!! I hope to see this again at BP, Bunny. HTD!! #9840235

Susan K. Snow December 01, 2011

Thank you Doc and Michele for your comments. I love the one landing with its wings out, also, and chose to aim for this capture. I am so glad that I worked this image again, because this was so much better than the photoshop rendition done in 2009. This time, I used techniques learned with Lewis Kemper and it made all the difference in the world.

The capture was relatively easy, it only took time and patience. Time: observing the birds. Set up: correct custom white balance; multiple shots, AI Servo and awaiting for the right moments to press the shutter. And, of course for me the sharpness was needed on a tripod. My hands/body are not as steady as Katta's.

Thanks for the good wishes. HTD to you all also!!!

#9840973

Joy Rector December 01, 2011

awesome #9841049

Amanda D. Austwick level-classic December 04, 2011

Wonderful image of these doves Bunny! I wish I could have a feeder like this, because I know my squirrels would find a way to it:) #9847261

Linda A. Braddock December 04, 2011

Susan, Beautiful Capture! I love all birds, and I have a pet Dove, that I found as a baby in the yard, so I hand raised her, I named her Katie. She will be 7 years old this April. #9847866

Susan K. Snow December 05, 2011

Thank you for your comments, Amanda.
My husband has the feeder attached on a wire from the house to one of the tallest trees in the back yard. The wire is way over my head, so he created a long pole with a notch in one end to hold the wire up, and when I want to take the feeder down at night (because we have Norway rats who like to contaminate it), I release the pole, and the wire comes down to a level where I can remove the hanging square feeder, more easily. My husband is very ingenious in solving problems to save money.

There is one spot along the wire where it is furthest from the house and highest from the ground. In that one spot is where I hang this one feeder. Any other place, the squirrels have learned how far they can safely jump to get into the feeder. They are crafty like the rats!

Linda, I can tell you are a bird lover with all your beautiful captures. I never owned a bird before and really didn't know anything about photographing them. But after the baby raccoons grew up and left, I had no animals to photograph. Hence, by trial and error, I learned.

My favorite Blue Jay was killed by a Grackle in 2010 because (I assume) he was having way too much fun in the bird bath and the other birds couldn't get in. I was so sad to have seen his pecked and severed neck when I picked up his body from the garden. I hate grackles!!!!

Lately, the blue jays have not returned to the feeders. Some doves are beginning to return, and a cardinal mating pair, but the tens of cardinals that were here last summer have not returned, nor have most the other birds. It's lonely without hearing the sound of music in the backyard.

Thank you for your comments!!!! #9849700

Nancy (Peaches) Harker May 26, 2012

VERY nice capture Susan!!!!! #10154587

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