Rainbow Lorikeets

[David Stallard]

Had a 'flying' visit to Colchester Zoo today and they have a new area set up inside for the flock of Rainbow Lorikeets, stunning plumage and even inside they are bright and beautiful.
Handheld with 1DX 300mm 2.8mkii

#1 1/500, f/3.2, iso 500 ready for my close up!


#2 1/500, f/3.2, iso 1000 really shallow DoF


#3 1/500, f/2.8, iso 3200 must have been shifting when it hit that wall lol (like to burrow into the soft walls)


.DAVID.

[Stan]

Re: Rainbow Lorikeets

The first is by far the best of the three David, great colours and detail but you need to get rid of the oof bar in the background

Two would be good if you cloned out the oof bird and again the bar

Three is good for a behaviour shot

Stan

[the black fox]

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super colours .,agree with stan the bar is distracting

[David Stallard]

Re: Rainbow Lorikeets

Thanks guys - as for the cloning . . . . knock yourselves out! I look at the birds as the main subject point especially #1 and the background really doesn't bother me, #2 - yeah the bar is annoying but it was there, it was in a zoo and I'm not pretending otherwise - the out of focus bird in the foreground is there to show the shallow depth of field (and yes it was intentional being a body / lens test)

Please don't get me wrong - I'm not being funny it's just I shoot what I see, if I can lose the background i.e. fences / mesh then I will but at the end of the day it's the main subject that matters and life is too short to sit in front of PhotoShop creating fakes for hours

.DAVID. xx

[DaveG001]

Re: Rainbow Lorikeets

Great sharp images David
I am with others on the cloning - looks like someone is trying to club the birds
Cheers
Dave

[Stan]

Re: Rainbow Lorikeets

I'm not being funny it's just I shoot what I see, if I can lose the background i.e. fences / mesh then I will but at the end of the day it's the main subject that matters and life is too short to sit in front of PhotoShop creating fakes for hours

My approach to photography is to take the best pictures that I can and if that means a bit of cloning will make an average shot a great one then the extra time spent is well worth it - you certainly don't need to sit in front of photoshop for hours - if a shot needs that much attention, then it just goes in the bin

Stan

[Bill53]

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Nice shots David. The bar in the first one is fine for me but agree with the other comments on the second shot.

Bill.

[tesarver]

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Beautiful colors on those 1st 2 images David

Tom

[Tigger]

Re: Rainbow Lorikeets

My approach to photography is to take the best pictures that I can and if that means a bit of cloning will make an average shot a great one then the extra time spent is well worth it - you certainly don't need to sit in front of photoshop for hours - if a shot needs that much attention, then it just goes in the bin

Stan

I'm with Stan and the others, I enjoy taking photos of animals in the zoos but will do my best to make it as natural as possible, if that means sitting in front of the Mac doing some tweaking I'm more than happy

I do like the first & 3rd for the fun of it ;o)

[David Stallard]

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Ian and co - agree completely and 99% of the time I move around to 'lose' the fence / post / bar etc etc but #2 was a close ish shot intended to show the real shallow depth of field and to see how well the AF stayed locked on my subject of choice without jumping to the foreground - which it did superbly by the way.

.DAVID.

[Brian Sugden]

Re: Rainbow Lorikeets

The 1DX and 300mm f2.8 L IS II is a great combination. Superb colours, detail and sharpness.

Brian