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FastStone: Cockatoos with Frames and Bump Map effect
Birds, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge

Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Cockatoos

I know, I know – I’ve already posted today and I did Sally D’s challenge just the other day. I’m trying to stay on top of things (in other words I’m putting off my editing until later).

4th Monday Challenger’s Choice (Pick One: Abstraction, Animals, Architecture, Food Photography, Night Photography, Objects, Panorama, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, and Travel).

5th Monday: Editing and Processing with Various Apps Using Themes from the Fourth Week.

 

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This is the original photo, I thought the sharp contrasts could prove interesting (Nokia Lumia 530, cropped in IrfanView)

I’ve played about with the effects one can get with IrfanView on the PC before. I don’t use phone apps, except for cropping and sending direct to the blog sometimes, or to Instagram now and then.

I decided to have a play with the FastStone Image Viewer (free) and am rapt with the results.

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Butterflies & Moths

Skipper Butterfly,and purple-tipped stamena

Using the Nikon D3000, on auto, but I set the lens on 55 mm.

 

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Yellow banded Dart, on mint blossom, by my back door.

 

Isn’t the mint blossom gorgeous with all those little purple tips on the stamena.

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Yellow-Banded Dart (a skipper butterfly)

 

Have good day.   🙂

 

 

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Birds

Clouds, cockatoos, and a whistling kite

All images:  19 Feb 2016, Nikon D3000, on auto, cropped

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sulphur-crested cockatoos

 

 

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I think the bird of prey in the featured photo (above)  might be a whistling kite … but I could be wrong

 

 

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soaring

I’ve heavily cropped the images to show off the clouds. I love the layers.

Wikipedia says …

The whistling kite is a medium-sized diurnal raptor found throughout Australia, New Caledonia and much of New Guinea. Also called the whistling eagle or whistling hawk, it is named for its loud whistling call, which it often gives in flight.

 

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the kite is just above the power line, by that small cloud lower right

 

These are some of the first photos I took with my new-to-me Nikon D3000. I was pleased with the results,considering I was just using it as a point-and-shoot, on auto, and with the settings as it arrived.

I’ve since reset something and nearly jumped out of my skin when the shutter went off as I touched it. I reckon it must have been on a 2sec delay before. I’ve also discovered the fast multiple shoot mode – where I can take consecutive shots with one push. That might come in handy for birds, though I have to get the focus right. LOL. I took two photos of the cockies on the fence and each time one of them had a really blurry head as they moved.

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hey, what’s happened to you – your head is all blurry

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help! it’s happening to me now, what did she put in the seed?

 

I downloaded a manual, but haven’t read it yet. Might help, I’m sure.

Have a good day.   😀

 

 

 

 

 

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