Birds anybody ???

[Miguel Coquis]

This ones jumped from their nest three weeks ago. I have been feeding them and now they are ready for their first flight.
Graflex Anniversaire-Aero Ektar
100 asa, scanned neg.

[Miguel Coquis]

... after shower !!!
Graflex Anniversaire-Aero Ektar
100 asa, scanned neg.

[Colin Graham]

These are great Miguel. What specie of bird is it?

[Vaughn]

Bird in Hand, 2001
St. John's College, Sante Fe, New Mexico

Zone VI 8x10 with Fuji W 300/5.6
F11 at 1/60, with yellow filter
Ilford HP5

Scanned contact print -- Ilford multigrade fiber probably

Bird is on my hand. The difficult parts were 1) figuring out where to focus and 2) where exactly to stick my hand up as I tripped the shutter.

Vaughn

[Asher Kelman]

... after shower !!!
Graflex Anniversaire-Aero Ektar
100 asa, scanned neg.

These pictures are stunning. I love the effect of the lens. What aperture was it? what are you scanning with and how do you print? Inkjet or enlarger?

Asher

[Asher Kelman]

Bird in Hand, 2001
St. John's College, Sante Fe, New Mexico

Zone VI 8x10 with Fuji W 300/5.6
F11 at 1/60, with yellow filter
Ilford HP5

Scanned contact print -- Ilford multigrade fiber probably

Bird is on my hand. The difficult parts were 1) figuring out where to focus and 2) where exactly to stick my hand up as I tripped the shutter.

Vaughn

Why not scan the negative then the bird can be enlarged more? How do you get the bird to land on your hand? Bread crumbs?

Also why the yellow filter for the bird and which one? What filter holder do you use.

Thanks for sharing!

Asher

[Vaughn]

Why not scan the negative then the bird can be enlarged more? The image is composed as I originally conceived it...my arm and the juniper trees in the background are as much of a part of the image as the bird (or else I would have held the bird closer to the lens. Also I consider myself to be as much as a print-maker as I am an image-maker...thus I prefer to make a print and scan a print than just do neg scans.


How do you get the bird to land on your hand? Bread crumbs? No, sick bird, I believe. I found him/her on the ground...alive but doctile. I set him/her up in the tree after the shot -- hoping it would recover without a cat finding it first.

Also why the yellow filter for the bird and which one? What filter holder do you use. Screw-on filter...just a standard yellow filter (#8?)...one stop filter factor. The filter was used to darken the sky relative to the bird and arm. Not much color in the bird, but I did not want a white sky to compete with the white on the bird.

Vaughn

[Miguel Coquis]

[QUOTE=- hoping it would recover without a cat finding it first.
Hi Vaughn, me too !
I am waiting until they get stronger before letting them go. Right now, they are starting their first notes... future songs !
Miguel

[Miguel Coquis]

These are great Miguel. What specie of bird is it?

Hi Colin, glad you like my guests !
This are females "blackbirds".... almost sure.
Females are gray and males black color... will see.

[Vaughn]

Cute little guys...you might have a couple blackbirds permently hanging around!

Just for laughs, I cropped my bird image -- might not be very clear/large, as I did not save the orignal image as a very big file.