Any critic of my work to help me improve it? Thanks for dropping some knowledge.

2 comments come to mind.

First, in the first shot it would be preferable to try to avoid having some birds cut off on the right side. That can be difficult in camera but you can crop afterwards.

Second, ducks?! Actually I'm jealous. We've got a small water feature pond a couple of blocks from my home and it's populated by ducks. In fact my suburb seems to have a heavy duck population and we even have street signs at one intersection to warn people that ducks cross the road there. You see whole families walking the streets, and even begging for food from householders. I've spent more than my share of time over the past 9 months photographing these locals and I've managed only one or two shots I like. I think you're doing fine and I would really love to have gotten your shots of the ducks in flight. The ones round here seem only to take to the air to move 10 metres or so across the water, at a height of a metre or so. Perhaps mine are too well fed and fat to even contemplate true flight.

Keep shooting.

A couple hummingbird shots from the 4th at my in-laws house. Wasn't planning on these but they have a feeder and as I was standing by the window one came in for a quick lunch break

Note: these are cropped way down to remove extraneous stuff from the frame.

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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” -- Dorothea Lange

This morning with my Panny GH2 & Takumar 500mm screwmount. This Juvenile Bald Eagle was about 200 to 300 feet away & extreme crop.



...Jerry

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I took some more pics today of the ducks next door. Em-5 45-200mm. Please feel free to critique them. I want to get better at this. Thanks.

I watched this swallow feeding its chick on the fence at Edinburgh Airport, it had several tries at feeding on the wing, then resorted to landing....not the greatest pics but a snapshot of avian life.

Yesterday walk around botanical garden snap this exotic looking birds...with OM-D + mZD 40-150



and not so exotic looking...:-)

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My Gear : EM-5, E-1, EPL-1, + Lumix 20, 14; Fujinon 55; OM 35, 135; mZD 45, 12-50, 14-42, 40-150R; ZD 35, 14-54 mkI, 40-150 mkI

These little birds intrigue me. They seem to relate to people. This guy landed near a feeder I was watching among a bunch of other seed eating birds. He and his compatriots usually sit on low branches but not near the raucous house finches and others flitting and squabbling around the feeder.

It was as if he wanted to show me his bug.

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Au contrair. I think those are fantastic pics.

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EP-3, EM-5, 12/50, 12mm, 17mm, 14/42mm, 40/150, 75/300, Nikon 400mm f/3.5 AIS IF ED, HLD6, FL 600R

Well, thanks very much