I have been away from this forum for a little while as life intervened. But I had early July penciled in for a bird photography tour to Ecuador. I stayed in 3 ecolodges on the Andean mountain slopes in Quito, Tandayapa and Milpe and also visited the Antisana Volcano. I saw more than 200 species of birds there and was fortunate enough to photograph 120+ species including the most colorful tanagers, hummingbirds, toucans, antpittas etc.
Even after 2 weeks back from the trip, I am still slowly working through my pictures and processing them.
I thought I could share a few that are ready and hope you like them.
birdied wrote:
Amit these are truly beautiful. Looking forward to seeing more.
Birdie
Thanks, Birdie. I hope I can get through all my pictures fast enough
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surfnron wrote:
These are all top notch Amit ~ Ron
Thanks so much, Ron.
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AGeoJO wrote:
Wonderful images, Amit! My favorite is the sword-billed hummingbird because I have yet to photograph one /
Joshua
So kind of you, Joshua. I was amazed when I saw the sword-billed myself. The Violet-tailed sylph and the Trainbearer were the other 2 that were equally striking.
kdacharya wrote:
Amit bhau, amazing. I was waiting to get the full trip report.Bravo. Voted.
Thanks for the compliment and the vote, KD. Wish you could have joined me. It looks like you had a great time too in India with the tigers.
Lovely pictures!!
arbitrage wrote:
Beautiful shots Amit. Did you find you needed to use TCs with that combo or was the bare lens usually enough with the pixel dense D500?
TFS
Geoff
Thanks, Geoff. Bare 500 was good enough for these shots with slight cropping, mainly for composition. In a few other places on my trip, I did use a 1.4x tele. But most of the time, I kept the lens bare for a wider aperture.
Tony Admana wrote:
Beautiful set of birds! Thank you for sharing.
Very kind of you, Tony.
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bobbytan wrote:
These are really beautiful but they are cropped a little too tight IMO.
Thanks, Bobby. With regard to the cropping, sometimes the birds were much to close for the 700mm effective focal length and I couldn't move my tripod setup lest I scare the bird away. There were other photographers too who might have gotten mad at me if I did.
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KCollett wrote:
Amazing photographs of the amazing birds of Equador. Simple, and beautiful presentations. Super effort Amit.
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