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Went for a walk with a few friends last week and spotted this "Karate Kid Heron" on a rooftop.

It behaved downright imperial, strutting around and surveying all it's minions (us)...was a big laugh actually

These are 15% crops





Both:
Nikon D40, 55-200VR.
Focal Length: 200mm
F5.6
ISO 200
1/800sec exposure
Exposure Bias Value: -0.67eV

Cheers

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15% crops of this quality from your lens/body-combo?
That proves just how good this combo is!
Nice catch

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really nice!

did you use a tripod?

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Looks like it's been gorging on the fermented barley. A tipsy heron!

Bob.

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LOL..hey,

thanks for the kind words

Paukl - it was hand held. The high shutter speed and the VR worked together well on this occasion.

Hey Thomas - in respect of your sense of precision
Originals = 3008 * 2000 = 100%
First one is 1144 * 916 = 17.40%
Second one is 1107 948 = 17.46 %

The 15% was just an estimate. Even so - yes I'm quite happy with the D40!

Hey Bob - you're right. At first I thought Karate Kid - but with your comment I now more see W.C. Fields - Heron Style.


(1066*686=12.13% crop)

Cheers

I keep hearing that Phil Collins, Genisis tune....'''I can't dance".
Fancy footwork on the feathered friend.

good-good...


patti

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Sweet shots Lah!!

Love the first shot, like Bob said I thought he was going to fall off after having had a few heron drinks

great light as well

Thanks for sharing!

Quentin

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Some really nice shots indeed! that the first time i see sucha bird so its quite interestin!

looks that combos is really good as thomas stated! You cough him (the bird) at some very good angels, even tho i must say i mostly prefer the last one that you posted because of the sun rays on him

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very nice shots, these are all making me feel like my state is getting more boring every day.


On a different note, Is a "15% crop", cropping the picture 15% off the edges of the photo and the picture we see here is 85% of the original.

Or is this only 15% of the Original photo and 85% is cut out?

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15%-crop means that 85% of the pixels are cut away and onyl 15% remain
As this (pixel-count that is) is measured in 2 dimensions, on a linear scale you'd cut off about 60% from the width and 60% from the height, or 80% of the width and 20% of the height, or...

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Hey Thomas,

maybe I'm not following you:

3008 * 2000 = 6016000 = 100%
1144 * 916 = 1047904 = 1047904/6016000 = 0.174 = 17.4%

Do I need to take remedial math? (too late for me, this old dawg can't learn any new tricks..lol)

Cheers

What the... erhm duck? Is that bird supposed to look like that?

Anyway, nice shots.

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Very cool expression and poses!

LOL..ROFL..

Hahaha.... karate kid Heron... spot on Lah !!


Hahaha.....

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