Birds anybody ???

[Miguel Coquis]

...this one came back after two days (I thought he was gone for ever),
so we work a portrait !
speed grafic 3x4, 125 mm f:2
dev +1
scan neg

[KenM]

I don't photograph birds, but here's a fellow who does:

http://www.keithlogan.org/pages/frames.html

For those who want to know, he uses an Arca Swiss 4x5, and has photographed *in* trees :-) I'm not sure of the exact setup, but he has a triggered lighting system that he sets up, along with his camera (on, I assume, a well secured tripod!) - bird flies back to the next, triggers the sensor, and a photograph is made.

He has some truly amazing shots, which are, unfortunately, not all up on his web site.

[David A. Goldfarb]

The Keith Logan shots are pretty remarkable. It's interesting to see someone who is still trying to do bird photography with LF using modern lighting and triggers.

It's very challenging to get any kind of interesting non-captive bird photo in a natural setting with anything larger than 35mm and a long lens. I've tried with the Tech V, 360mm lens, and a 6x7 rollfilm back with larger birds in settings where they were somewhat approachable within 25 feet (I'm usually trying for 15 feet), and the biggest limitation I've found is the top shutter speed of the lens (1/125 sec.). So that means using strobes, which I can do, but I prefer the look of natural light for bird photos.

I suppose there's always Big Bertha, if the shutter thwack doesn't scare off the bird.

[Michael Wynd]

I read once that Elliott Porter used to shoot hummingbirds with a LF camera and a flash unit he built from scratch. I've never seen any of them in print though.
Mike

[vinny]

wehman, 4x5 back, fp4, fujinon 600mm. I think these are herons or egrets?
Somewhere west of Solvang, CA a few months ago.

vinny

[David A. Goldfarb]

I think these are herons or egrets?
Somewhere west of Solvang, CA a few months ago.

vinny

Hard to indentify on the basis of appearance, but cattle egrets congregate in this way in this kind of terrain, and I suspect they're not too unusual in this part of the country.

[Vaughn]

wehman, 4x5 back, fp4, fujinon 600mm. I think these are herons or egrets?
Somewhere west of Solvang, CA a few months ago.

vinny

I'd give them a 97% chance of being egrets...

Vaughn

[Colin Graham]

Don't make me dig up my chicken series...

[domenico Foschi]

210 tessar 3.5

[Miguel Coquis]

[QUOTE=domenico Foschi;355917]210 tessar 3.5
... great framing moment !