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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tufted Titmouse
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Wed Feb 21 18:14:05 2007
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Thanks, Doug.

The more I do this the more I appreciate your photos. You're the man.

Len


On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Doug Herr wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>>> Titmouse.jpg.html>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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