Yesterday in the backyard

Nothing exciting.....just a couple of shots of a Western Scrub-Jay, and a Costa's Hummingbird. I went to a friends house in the hopes of photographing several differnt birds that I don't have any pictures of. As things worked out, none of the species I had hoped to get shots of, showed up. I settled for a couple of the daily visitors, and I'll give it another try today.

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great shots mike i realy like the first althought the noise in the b/g does show .
i have just done a test on cs3 and if the b/g is highlited there is a tool call lens blur this realy works.
hope this helps

Nice shots Mike.

jpalmer wrote in post #3254593
.......althought the noise in the b/g does show .
i have just done a test on cs3 and if the b/g is highlited there is a tool call lens blur this realy works.
hope this helps

Thanks, jpalmer.....I do see it (noise) and agree definitely with you. I plan to get cs3 as soon as it's available to me. Thanks for the tip.

Nothing exciting? I would be thrilled to see let alone photograph these two species...mind you it would cost me a few dollars to fly to the West Coast Nice captures and the noise is an easy issue to fix.

I received an e-mail today from Adobe with the higlites of CS 3 . I am going to read it later to see what the big improvements are but I am quite certain I will be upgrading as well.

Nice catchlights on the Hummer. Solid shots.

Very nice shots of 2 very beautiful birds, I really like the b/g colours in the first 2 shots...I could be wrong, but I think the hummer may actually be an Anna's Hummingbird, not a Costa's?

jpalmer, canonloader, Gary Fairhead, Cooper911, downywp.....Thank you folks so much for the CC and all the kind words. It is all much appreciated.

downywp.....I think you're correct about the Anna's Hummingbird.....shows how much I know.

great work as usual mike and its an anna's!

Excellent captures with great details and beautiful colors.

Excellent shots. Very well done indeed.

Sweet ~

Very Nicely done Mike

terryger wrote in post #3261365
great work as usual mike and its an anna's!

I knew that Terry........just testing to see if you really knew it was an Anna's. .....and by the way.....you passed the test well.

Beautiful shots!