Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] avian portrait
From: telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 17 15:36:41 2007

Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:

> I really don't know because this is not my speciality at all, but are  
> there any conventions in bird close-up photography concerning the  
> showing of one or both eyes?

Not that I know of.  Most often technical considerations rule, in
particular DOF.  Birds with a flatter face like owls can be kept mostly
within the DOF when both eyes are shown but for most birds, both eyes in
the photo results in a seriously OOF beak.  A profile view skirts around
this problem.  Thanks for looking and commenting.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


Op 18-jan-07, om 00:19 heeft telyt@earthlink.net het volgende  
geschreven:

> The California Hawking Club (falconers) held their annual field  
> meet last
> week in Sacramento; many of the birds that weren't out flying were  
> 'parked'
> in a makeshift weathering yard in a hotel's courtyard.  One of the  
> birds in
> the weathering yard was this immature Northern Goshawk who hadn't  
> cleaned
> up after breakfast:
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/nogo04.html
>
> technical stuff: R8/DMR @ ISO 400 -1 stop, 560mm f/6.8 Telyt, tripod,
> mirror pre-release & cable shutter release.  Exposure about 1/60 sec @
> f/whatever.  Air temperature was in the mid-20s.
>
> All comments welcome.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
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