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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_dYNJRlzvQlzhe7XpPvOYEg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The hardest birds to photograph well are the ones with dark-eyes on dark faces such as Boreal and Black-capped Chickadee and Dark-eyed Junco. If the eye is not reflecting light and in focus the bird appears lifeless and so sadly does the resulting photograph, no matter how competent the photograph may be in other respects. Often the best time to get the eye to reflect light is early in the morning or late in the day. I never resort to frontal flash or photoshop touch-ups to light the eyes. The trick to photographing birds is to focus on the eye and then while holding this focus moving the view to compose the shot. This is easier said than done since these critters seldom stay still for long. Try this technique with a Golden-crowned Kinglet or a Brown Creeper and you'll discover why 95 out of 100 photos are trashed. I've posted three photos of Boreal Chickadee and one of Black-capped Chickadee. I was able to photograph our young male Ring-necked Pheasant in the backyard snow yesterday. There is something about the facial features of this bird that is beguiling to my camera. This series of photos finishes off with a Hooded Merganser in Sambro Harbour, a Mourning Dove in our backyard and the last one is Sambro Harbour's Belted Kingfisher in folded wing dive. The wire he lept from is visible just above his body. He missed the target! This is the first winter that the local Mourning Doves have overwintered successfully in numbers. I have at times 40 of these birds mingling about my feeders. In previous years I've watched dozens of them sitting on wires in the freezing rain, and not surprisingly disappearing shortly thereafter but this year they are doing much better. Hans http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights27.html _______________________________________________________________ Hans Toom E-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca Migration Count: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html Nature Website: http://hanstoom.com _____________________________________________________________ --Boundary_(ID_dYNJRlzvQlzhe7XpPvOYEg) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The hardest birds to photograph well are the ones with dark-eyes on dark faces such as Boreal and Black-capped Chickadee and Dark-eyed Junco. If the eye is not reflecting light and in focus the bird appears lifeless and so sadly does the resulting photograph, no matter how competent the photograph may be in other respects. Often the best time to get the eye to reflect light is early in the morning or late in the day. I never resort to frontal flash or photoshop touch-ups to light the eyes. The trick to photographing birds is to focus on the eye and then while holding this focus moving the view to compose the shot. This is easier said than done since these critters seldom stay still for long. Try this technique with a Golden-crowned Kinglet or a Brown Creeper and you'll discover why 95 out of 100 photos are trashed. I've posted three photos of Boreal Chickadee and one of Black-capped Chickadee.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was able to photograph our young male Ring-necked Pheasant in the backyard snow yesterday. There is something about the facial features of this bird that is beguiling to my camera. This series of photos finishes off with a Hooded Merganser in Sambro Harbour, a Mourning Dove in our backyard and the last one is Sambro Harbour's Belted Kingfisher in folded wing dive. The wire he lept from is visible just above his body. He missed the target!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is the first winter that the local Mourning Doves have overwintered successfully in numbers. I have at times 40 of these birds mingling about my feeders. In previous years I've watched dozens of them sitting on wires in the freezing rain, and not surprisingly disappearing shortly thereafter but this year they are doing much better.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hans</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights27.html">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights27.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>_______________________________________________________________<BR>Hans Toom<BR>E-mail: <A href="mailto:htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca">htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca</A><BR>Migration Count: <A href="http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html">http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html</A><BR>Nature Website: http://hanstoom.com <BR>_____________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_dYNJRlzvQlzhe7XpPvOYEg)--
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