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iceman
09-10-2007, 07:21 AM
We went to my parents house at Bellingen (near Coffs Harbour) over the weekend..

Here's a couple of quick shots.. of course I forgot to reset the ISO after imaging NGC253, so they were all taken at ISO1600.

Canon 350D + stock 75-300mm lens, most at or near 300mm.

Thanks for looking.

Dennis
09-10-2007, 08:07 AM
A very nice portfolio Mike. I love the informal, relaxed composition of the two princesses in the last photo, an extremely high "cuteness" quotient!

Back to the parrots; what model are they? I can’t recollect seeing these colourful blighters up here in Brissie?

Cheers

Dennis

jjjnettie
09-10-2007, 08:22 AM
The first pair of birdies are Scaly Crested Lorikeets. We get them out where I am.

Mike, the girls are gorgeous.

RB
09-10-2007, 10:22 AM
A lovely collection Mike !
The little Princesses are growing up, they're so cute.


Try stacking them and apply some darks and flats.....:P

I think you're 350D is possessed, I can't set auto focus on it, you can't adjust the ISO, what's going on here? :lol:

Dujon
09-10-2007, 10:25 AM
Lovely images, Mike, thanks for sharing.

The fourth is a King Parrot, unless I'm going potty. We had a few through here a week or so ago, though I've seen none since. I normally expect them to visit in a month or so from now so they might have been the vanguard.

The princesses, Mike, as others have said, are gorgeous - if they are as impish as they seem then they must be a joy to you and yours.

*edit*

Sorry, forgot. The goannas look good. We used to get the odd one or two wandering around the place when I lived in Glenbrook (just up the road) but I haven't seen any where I now live. How big was that one, Mike? Most of those we saw in our old place were around the 5' to 6' mark.

davidpretorius
09-10-2007, 11:02 AM
lovely mike!

to a camera nooby, what does having a "too high" iso do to the image?

xstream
09-10-2007, 11:10 AM
Nice pics Mike.

The first two are Scaly Breasted Lorikeets. The third and fourth are juvenile King Parrots (Looks like his going through his first moult).

SkySearcher
09-10-2007, 11:26 AM
Nice Shots:thumbsup:. I particularly like the detail on the fisrt one. The 350D seems to handle ISO 1600 very well

Hi David, ISO is a measure of a films/sensor sensitivity to light. In this case 1600 is very high. The result is a much faster shutter speed so less chance of motion blur. However, the trade off is a more noisy or grainy picture.

davidpretorius
09-10-2007, 01:22 PM
Thanks Daniel

Dennis
09-10-2007, 04:30 PM
Thanks Jeanette! We get these cute fellas too, they love bathing in our water dish. They seem smarter than the rainbow Lorikeets and are quite feisty for their size.



Thanks Dujon! I’ve seen them in various bird and wildlife sanctuaries and even managed to see one recently, my first in the wild, in Toohey Forest (2kms from home), but I’ve never seen them in our back garden.

Cheers

Dennis

iceman
11-10-2007, 06:54 AM
Thanks all for your nice comments.


Yeh this was a baby one, probably about 70-80cm long (head to tail). He hung around for a while once he came down from the tree, wouldn't go away. My mum tried "shoo-ing" it off a few times but it kept coming back. Their dog found it and started chasing it while Mum was out in the gardens, and the goanna came running full sprint towards her! Luckily it found a tree to climb before it reached my Mum :) Suffice to say, my Mum was very scared at that moment :)


Thanks, and I agree - even though ISO1600 is noisy, it's not too objectionable and it cleans up very well. I used Noise reduction in Photoshop and it got rid of most of it.

Thanks again.

ving
11-10-2007, 02:38 PM
such vibrant pics mike! :) lovely!

they almost look like they were taken with anikon :P
just kidding, good job :)