Birds- 300/4, HD TC and K3

[Arijit Banerjee]

The combo is working out ok. Yet the hunting can at times be a bit irritating.


Indian Pond Heron in breeding plumage


Plum-headed Parakeets- male with red head


Great Tit


Chestnut-shouldered Petronia (aka Yellow-throated Sparrow)


Peahens


Juvenile Indian Courser- streching


Spotted Owlet


Yellow-wattled Lapwing


Baya Weaverbird (male in breeding plumage)

Hope you like them.

regards and thanks in advance.

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Arijit

 

[leopold]

Great shots as usual, i always like to lok at your birds shots, you have some very colorful and different birds. The Great tit loks almost identical to our Black-Capped Chickadee (tit) !

 

[PvC001]

Great sharp shots and interesting birds.

Thanks for posting Arijit.

Philip

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Thanks for viewing gentlemen. The tropics have the advantage of variety. The similarity between new world and old world birds are striking. Yes You Chickadee and our tits are same and some species we share! The Sparrow, Mallard, … in fact your Blue Heron (?) looks almost same as the Grey heron we have here!

 

[EHDesigns]

Well done! All fabulous! Love that owl.

 

[Jim Beverlin]

Excellent shots!

JRB

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Thanks you. That Owlet really is cute.

 

[robbo d]

Amazing crisp clear shots, Loving that Owl also. Stunning resolution from the K3.

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Thanks. Yes the K3 - resolves very, very well!

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Thanks Jim.

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Arijit

 

[MiguelD]

What a wonderful inventory of avian life you have. What kind of post processing did you perform on these shots?

How does the combo work for BIFs?

M

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Thanks for those nice words Miguel.

Post processing varies. I tend to shoot under. So recovering shadow details becomes necessary. After tweaking in ACR, including cropping, the rest in PS CS6 - shadows and highlights, maybe a luminosity mask to selectively reduce brightness, resizing (I prefer multi step resizing which helps preserve sharpness), noise reduction if required on the background. Occasionally some sharpening (the K3 needs it rarely).

 

[Sharik0192]

Great photos of very interesting birds. Lovely bokeh in the last one (branches of a tree I assume?). And a surprise for me - all birds look exotic except one: the lapwing looks almost the same as those we have in Canberra, the only difference is that ours (masked lapwings) have white neck.

 

[miles green]

Super as always Arijit!!!!

Especially that owl! How close were you?

 

[ozdean]

Excellent Arijit

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Thanks Sharik.

Our Yellow-wattled lapwing and your Masked Lapwing could very well be cousins. I recall having shot these very polite birds in Ballina last year.









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Arijit

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Glad you liked them. That Owlet was cute as they come- 15 odd feet maybe. Close. There were around 15 of them on a neem tree. A friend was shooting them from top of an embankment. I was not upto climbing up 'cause of a gamey leg. One Owlet, disgusted with a Canon 5D Mk III and 300m2.8 + TC flew down and posed for Pentax :-D

 

[Arijit Banerjee]

Thanks Dean

 

[capturef22]

I can appreciate your frustration of the focus-hunting, but man oh man, these are a treat to look at! You have some great birds to share and your images are all well-done. No matter how you got there, the end results are great!

Thanks for posting.

 

[MightyMike]

Well done Arijit