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Hi all,

Took these yesterday......a winters day.....so not much light......I cheated a bit by nailing a bun to the post......but what can a chap do......if one needs to be as close as possible.......anyway I hope you dont mind me sharing these.....And anyway, the birds were very hungry....lol.........."A" mode..100iso...settings all low....Taken outside my backdoor...





I cheated a little more with this one...and cloned out the bun...do you think it works?????



C/C welcome of course....
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Rik
 
are tough in NZ. You gotta put a nail through it before eating the thing. LOL. Hope your wide did not cook them. When mine tried to make bread rolls they were so hard I suggested we could use it to drive nails in, she threw some at me and they hurt.

I really like the first one, you could almost title it king of the castle. Not sure I am 100% happy with the placement, but without playing with different crops not sure if any suggestions would be any better. Are these silver-eyes?
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Very pretty little birds, Rik. Even though they are not in the most natural of settings sometimes that's the easiest way to get close to them as you so aptly illustrate. Love the sharpness and detail in these and the clone job was masterfully done.

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Hi Raf
rafinmelb said:
Even the Buns are tough in NZ. You gotta put a nail through it before eating the
thing. LOL. Hope your wife did not cook them.
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No no....I bought them as yesterdays bread...feel sorry for the birds in winter..
rafinmelb said:
When mine tried to make bread rolls they were so hard I suggested we could use it to drive nails in, she threw some at me and they hurt.
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I'm sure they weren't hard as nails.....you are naughty...
rafinmelb said:
I really like the first one, you could almost title it king of the
castle.
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Hey thats a good name for it...
rafinmelb said:
Not sure I am 100% happy with the placement, but without
playing with different crops not sure if any suggestions would be any
better.
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Your right...I did try to make it off centre..but somehow I didn't get it to work...never mind..
rafinmelb said:
Are these silver-eyes?
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We call them waxeyes in NZ....but your name may be more correct...

Thanks for looking and commenting Raf....Its appreciated......hope your winter is going ok?
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Cheers

Rik
 
Very nice work here Rik, on the sharpness of the images and the PP work..well done..feel sorry for the sparrows, they are out numbered so they look like they are just waiting their turn at the bun, enjoyable post..Bill ~
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tylerken said:
Very pretty little birds, Rik. Even though they are not in the most
natural of settings sometimes that's the easiest way to get close to
them as you so aptly illustrate. Love the sharpness and detail in
these and the clone job was masterfully done.
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Hi Ken,

Thanks for looking, and for your kind comments.....I'm still learning about doing the cloning stuff...so thanks...Trouble in this case is that I should have cloned something natural in place of the bun, perhaps another bird or a bug....lol
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Cheers

Rik
 
B_Algood said:
Very nice work here Rik, on the sharpness of the images and the PP
work..well done..feel sorry for the sparrows, they are out numbered
so they look like they are just waiting their turn at the bun,
enjoyable post..Bill ~
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Hi Bill,

Thanks for dropping by.....and thanks for the positive comments...your right about the sparrows.....they are just waiting for the right moment to pounce...and they sure do....

One thing I've noticed about birds....is that some of them spend more time and energy defending the food than they do actually eating it...bit like some of us more deprived and desparate humans.....

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Rik
 
Lovely creatures, Rik! Loved the shots. They seemed starving...
Kiwi Rik said:
I cheated a little more with this one...and cloned out the bun...do you think it works?????
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More or less... I would try to make the top part of the post different, darker for example. And with sharped edges.

I do this kind of things many times...

Thanks!
L.

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Tell me if this cloning works for you:



L.

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I love the picture and the PPing works well. Getting a flat surface pn the post is a good job.
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Trevor Carpenter said:
I love the picture and the PPing works well. Getting a flat surface
pn the post is a good job.
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Hi Trevor,

I'm so glad you liked the picture, cos you are a tough man to match....Thanks for your input and encouragement...I appreciate it very much....

Thought I would include a shot I was going to reject because of the blurs....and wondered if it actually had some merit........got any thoughts???



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Cheers

Rik
 
aftab said:
One, two, three
Four, five, six
Got it bun free
Like the fix?
Blame Ken for this Rik
He gave me ideas
but no words to pick

Liked them very much, BTW
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Hi aftab,

Hey....you becoming a poet eh?....thats a good verse you know!

Glad you liked the pic....

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Cheers

Rik
 
KIWI Rik said:
Thought I would include a shot I was going to reject because of the
blurs....and wondered if it actually had some merit........got any
thoughts???
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Funnily enough I like the blurs, but the bird being wacked in the head and that loose tail are what would relegate it for me.

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KIWI Rik said:
Hi Luis,

Hey!...that's just brilliant.....much, much better than mine....where
did you get the material from.....
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From the pole itself, but from several different parts. And I changed the brightness. You have to dedicate some time to the cloning and be careful, otherwise it will be apparent. You have to permanently zoom in and out between 50% and 500%.

Cheers,
L.

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aftab said:
One, two, three
Four, five, six
Got it bun free
Like the fix?
Blame Ken for this Rik
He gave me ideas
but no words to pick
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Wow!!! Very good!! You're a man with multiple talents!

:o)

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