Ah yes nothing like being at Home Sweet Home Iowa
I spent a few hours at a State Park about 10 minutes down the road > Came up with a lot of shots, but I left my Good PC in California because I forgot how OLD my PC here in Iowa is.............. So PP is at a snails pace to say the least. To view the photo at 100 % I have to click on 100 % and wait about 3 minutes or longer............ Unbelievable. So needless to say I'm not processing many photos til I get back to California.
Here are a few that I suffered through, Hope you find them Worthy of such hard work More like tediously boring !!!
This is only the third time I've tried to use fill flash. There was heavy cloud cover and spitting rain. So thought I'd give the fill and better beamer a shot.
Also used my CHAD BAG and shot from the Truck.
Mark III
EF 500 IS with 1.4x = FL 700mm
ISO 1600
Shutter speeds were 300 - 500
Aperture f/8ish
Take it easy > I'm still trying to learn fill flash and I tried to pick out the photos with no Red Eye as I have no idea yet how to fix that.
Hey Anthony I know slow pc's think of it as fate...3 min. for a 100% view means you have to take it easy, live the Iowa rhythm brother
Amazing shots Anthony, wonderful smooth bgs and great details
Then again it's pretty hard to go wrong w a MKIII and a 500mm F4 IS
Problably a bit more saturation on the greens would help..your monitor is so old it lost all the colours
Hey Anthony I know slow pc's think of it as fate...3 min. for a 100% view means you have to take it easy, live the Iowa rhythm brother
Amazing shots Anthony, wonderful smooth bgs and great details
Then again it's pretty hard to go wrong w a MKIII and a 500mm F4 IS
Problably a bit more saturation on the greens would help..your monitor is so old it lost all the colours
Thanks Nello > Slow PC = time not taking photos > Just processing them
I added some global saturation at about 6 or 8 in PP and that was it. Maybe I should try a little extra green saturation. Nice idea. Monitor is fine > Operator is OLD
Hey Anthony,
I'm with Nello here, this means you're to take it easy & relax. You're to chill is what the world & Universe is telling you.
Nice shots - - Flicker is just too funny.
Thanks Lil > The first bird isn't a Flicker it's a Red Bellied Wood Pecker. But he was being cute and a little hard to photograph. He would only spend a few seconds in one spot.
Appreciate the comment Lil
Wow never saw anything like this when I lived in Iowa Anthony!!! Born in DesMoines and lived in Ft Dodge. What park Anthony??
Excellant detail in the feathering. Beautiful colors...sharp!
Dan
the first is a female red-bellied woodpecker. the male's red on the top of the head extends all the way down to the beak.
The other bird is a rose-breasted grosbeak.
Yo Anthony, sounds like you're havin a relaxing time... now if you can coax the sun out You are certainly getting up close and personal with em, so be careful with that Better Beamer... you don't want squab ...
Good stuff... we'll wait for the final cut from Ca. ........... roll em!
I believe you did a good job with that fill flash, Anthony. It hardly shows in you pictures. About the red eye: don't touch it! That's the color of the RB''s eyes. (JK)
My favorite is the RBG, but they all have nice detail and very good lighting. Well done.
Socrate
Nice ones there Anthony, did you have the woodies pose on that red board....so they would be true Red Bellies Super detail in these. I hope you brought some warm weather with you!
I......O......W......A.............what's the hurry buddy, got the same problem with my 'good' computer but ordering parts for a new one as we speak!
I think the flash looks excellent, I do think you have a 'coolish' color cast as the reds are palish and more orange or pinkish in the case of the grosbeak. Other than that, the flash sure works well with eye detail.
How do we know these birds are actually from Iowa? They are probably more of your holdouts like that eagle!! Too bad you have rain, you should move to Seattle, bright sunny day here.
Nice shots Anthony, nice detail in these. I am a bit partial to the grosbeak.
Now just sit back and chill, stop harping on the computer, you are on vacation relax, slow down.
Very nice Anthony! Love the red-bellied. FWIW, I find fill flash more useful on sunny days to lift the shadow areas. Overcast days let's me use available light with less worry about shadows. When you get back, let's talk about bringing some of those images over to my place for a PP session!
Wow never saw anything like this when I lived in Iowa Anthony!!! Born in DesMoines and lived in Ft Dodge. What park Anthony??
Excellant detail in the feathering. Beautiful colors...sharp!
Dan
Hey Dan. My wife and I live near Marengo, IA on a little 10 acre plot, and we own 150 acres south of Washington, IA > Plan on building a new house and moving there sometime in the future. We are currently living North of San Fransisco and come back home on occasion to play around on the farm. The Park was Lake Iowa > They drained the lake a few years ago and cleaned and added new fish habitat. It's a great place and they've done a lot to improve it.
Thanks for commenting and glad you liked the shots
the first is a female red-bellied woodpecker. the male's red on the top of the head extends all the way down to the beak.
The other bird is a rose-breasted grosbeak.
Nice shots.
Gerald
Thanks Gerald > I knew the ID's > I guess I should post them with the shots. I never do and probably should. Thanks for commenting
So they got birds in Iowa, too... huh
Yo Anthony, sounds like you're havin a relaxing time... now if you can coax the sun out You are certainly getting up close and personal with em, so be careful with that Better Beamer... you don't want squab ...
Good stuff... we'll wait for the final cut from Ca. ........... roll em!
I think I lit a few Chickadees on fire with the better beamer I was a little to close
Thanks Mr D
More like tediously boring !!! 
