First email
_mg_0120c.jpg Red Collared Lorikeet (Trichoglossus rubritorquis)
_mg_1367c.jpg Baby Red Backed Fairy Wren (Malurus melanocephalus)
_mg_4138c.jpg Blue Winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii)
_mg_4637c.jpg Whistling Kite (Milvus sphenurus)
_mg_5799c.jpg Green Tree Frog
_mg_7395c.jpg Lemon Bellied Fly Catcher (Microeca flavigaster)
_mg_7527c.jpg Galah (Cacatua roseicapilla)
_mg_8559c.jpg Red Tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
[Gaggadju]
Second email
_mg_1291c.jpg Blue Faced Honey Eater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
_mg_3882c.jpg Rainbow Bee Eater (Merops ornatus)
_mg_6069c.jpg Some flower (with a bee)
_mg_6418c.jpg Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata) [good eating on
one of them]
_mg_6464c.jpg Fig Bird (Sphecotheres viridis)
_mg_7505c.jpg Bar Shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis)
_mg_7534c.jpg Butterfly
_mg_7615c.jpg Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
Just a little info on the photography for anyone that's interested:
The camera was a Canon 400D, the cheap kit that came with the 75-300 mm
F5.6 lens which was used for most of these pictures. All the shots are
taken with the camera "hand held" because the stupid birds won't stay
still. All of the best shots are the opportunistic ones, not the ones
where I sat still as a stone for hours on end.
Some of the photos were taken with a Rubinar 500 mm Macro F5.6 lens that
I had made in 2009. Using that Hand Held is a challenge. The 400D camera
was before we had image stabilization so there was a bit of skill
involved, the Rubinar lens was designed in the 1930's and requires a lot
of skill even with a tripod. Beautiful lens when you get it right though.
And a tip for young players - make a folder to work from for each new
task and put copies of the pictures you want to work with in there.
Never edit your originals, that always ends in tears.
If you use a Canon camera and Linux you'll soon notice that Canon have
created their own unique format for RAW images. Most programs will tell
you that the image is 48 bits per pixel, technology we don't have yet.
Their RAW files are actually 4 layers @ 12 bits per pixel, Red Blue
Green and Transparency. This causes problems when you convert from raw
to jpg. So I use an old stand alone WinXP system to run the Canon
software and do the initial conversion, then back to Linux and the
latest version of Gimp to edit using GreyCstoration for the noise removal.
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