Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/21

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tufted Titmouse
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Wed Feb 21 18:02:57 2007
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If the tufted Titmouse is anything like the Oak Titmouse here in  
California you did well just keeping the bird in the viewfinder.  The  
nest thing to try for is some light on the bird's eye.

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

On Feb 21, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Leonard Taupier wrote:

> Hi Hoppy,
>
> Yes I noted the purple fringe. I did get rid of it in a version  
> before this but I didn't like what it did to other areas of the  
> photo. So I kept the original. The image itself was shot RAW with a  
> Canon 20D which I don't have a lot of experience with. It was  
> cropped quite a bit as well. I think that adds to it although I  
> don't see the fringing with my Nikon gear.
>
> Now this bird. He's so hard to follow. He flits all over the place  
> while I'm trying to focus and follow him with a 3 foot lens. I  
> don't know how Doug does it. Out of the 13 shots I took of this  
> bird, 12 were failures.
>
> Thanks for looking,
> Len
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:34 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> Len, you've caught your subject in a good attitude/pose. A  
>> difficult setting to frame the bird in, too. Veering maybe  
>> dangerously
>> off the original subject here, did you note the purple fringe in  
>> the (backlit) highlight and other highlight spots? We were
>> discussing this a little while back with bird shots by Bob  
>> Palmieri, I think. My current thinking is that it may be a sensor  
>> product
>> (camera or scanner) rather than from your, no doubt superb, Telyt.  
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Hoppy
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tufted Titmouse
>>
>>
>>
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Pennypack+Preserve/ 
>> Titmouse.jpg.html>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3a75pm
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>>
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