Hey Sweetie

[bfjr]

Follow me
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To the Dance Floor
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Now let's eat :food
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[4labs]

Ben your captures get better and better. I really see an improvement in your exposures, WB, compositions.. the whole deal. great job. Are ya getting birded out yet? http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/yelrotflmao.gif

[jwear]

nice dance but what a cheap --- dinner for one --last dance :cry i only got one dancing dam muskat :dunno rrreally nice:thumb

[Harryb]

Hey Ben,

:clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap

I think these are your best ever. :thumb

[Trish323]

WOHOOOO! Beautiful Ben:clap Wishing I had at least another 100mm!! Super shots, probably some of the best I have seen in the air!

[Dixie]

Great shots, Ben. I'm lucky to get a good one with them sitting still, much less doing synchronized flying.

[rutt]

Beautiful water color and great captures. To my eye the birds don't look as sharp as the surface of the water, especially their eyes.

These shots show the other side of the coin compared to Ginger's shot here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=17602). You have exposed to show feather detail but the birds aren't as white as they look to the eye. As I wrote to Ginger, I think this is a hard problem and I'm interested in solving it.

[Steve Cavigliano]

Outstanding Ben :thumb :thumb A real interesting series of shots. It even looks like they are dancing on the water :clap

As Eric mentions, you are really getting very good results lately :D Nice work!


Steve

[bfjr]

Ben your captures get better and better. I really see an improvement in your exposures, WB, compositions.. the whole deal. great job. Are ya getting birded out yet? http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/yelrotflmao.gif
Heck no Buddy, comments like yours just fire me up some more :clap
You know how much I appreciate your support from the very beginning, just had to tell you again :D

[bfjr]

nice dance but what a cheap --- dinner for one --last dance :cry i only got one dancing dam muskat :dunno rrreally nice:thumb You know I said this last week when we did this, but I just seem to shoot better when I'm shootin with you!! Thank you for your freindship :bow

[Osprey Whisperer]

Pheeeewwwwwww **wipes brow**


I'm glad you were NOT tallking to me. :uhoh

Very nice set of shots you have here, Ben. Well done Machin Gun A :thumb

BMP

[bfjr]

Hey Ben,

:clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap

I think these are your best ever. :thumb
Man that's some sweet sounding words :D
Thanks for your support Harry :thumb

[bfjr]

WOHOOOO! Beautiful Ben:clap Wishing I had at least another 100mm!! Super shots, probably some of the best I have seen in the air!
Many thanks Trish
You know though how it is with us birdie folks always want more reach!!
I can get out to 420mm but soooooooo wishing for 500mm ++ :D

[bfjr]

Great shots, Ben. I'm lucky to get a good one with them sitting still, much less doing synchronized flying.

Evening Dixie
Sure Sure, can't fool me I've seen your work !!! :D
Ya just got to pay them birds a fair wage :rofl and they will perform :D

[bfjr]

Beautiful water color and great captures. To my eye the birds don't look as sharp as the surface of the water, especially their eyes.

These shots show the other side of the coin compared to Ginger's shot here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=17602). You have exposed to show feather detail but the birds aren't as white as they look to the eye. As I wrote to Ginger, I think this is a hard problem and I'm interested in solving it.

Hi Rutt
Can't say much about the Digital Darkroom work. Except I can if you want tell you my workflow. Time of day was late afternoon, birds traveling west into setting sun

I might be able help on the camera end. You will notice that my F-stop was 6.3 this is usually good for a single bird in flight, but not for duals. I should of upped the F-Stop to 8 or even 11, but that would have killed my shutter speed without upping ISO. However this kind of shot happens in the blink of an eye and I was unable to make the necessary changes. So the softness in the birds could come from lack of DOF.

If you would care to work on one of the raws from this set just let me know and I'll put it up. Very interested in what you find, could only help me improve my work.

Thank you for your comment and interest.

[Sandy]

Georgeous :clap

[bfjr]

Outstanding Ben :thumb :thumb A real interesting series of shots. It even looks like they are dancing on the water :clap

As Eric mentions, you are really getting very good results lately :D Nice work!


Steve

Morning Steve
Thanks Steve, yeah them Snowys are just so animated especially when dinner time stirs it head :D

[ginger_55]

I really like those, Ben. Wish I had that clear water. Are you in an ocean situation? What keeps your water so clear?

Good captures. I always have liked dancing birds, and those are good ones.

ginger

[bfjr]

Pheeeewwwwwww **wipes brow**


I'm glad you were NOT tallking to me. :uhoh

Very nice set of shots you have here, Ben. Well done Machin Gun A :thumb

BMP

:huh I'm talkin to you Mike ?? :dunno :D

[bfjr]

Georgeous :clap

One word reply that makes my Heart soar like an Eagle !!!!
:wink

Thank you

[Rohirrim]

Truly excellent captures!! :clap:thumb:clap:thumb

[rutt]

Ben emailed me the raw version of the first image and I played around with it. This prompted me to write a fairly long post about color balance for sunset lit shots, including a couple of alternate treatments of this shot. You may be interested: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=17706

[ginger_55]

I wonder where my reply is, it is where ever that link directed me to.

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[bfjr]

I really like those, Ben. Wish I had that clear water. Are you in an ocean situation? What keeps your water so clear?

Good captures. I always have liked dancing birds, and those are good ones.

ginger
Hi Ginger
Yes near but not at the ocean. The marsh here has a strong flow and I think that helps keep it pretty clear. The rest comes from my Post work. I set WB by picking a gray point in the image (something that was 128) on the curves palette and bang that made the blue really pop!! In fact had to manually tone it down a bit :D

Snowys are great dancers :lol

[bfjr]

Truly excellent captures!! :clap:thumb:clap:thumb

Hi Steve
and a Truly excellent comment thank you for your time and support :thumb