Baltimore Orioles

Posted by kml7090 on Wed Sep 21, 2016 1:01 pm

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Laguna Seca Ranch in South Texas is seeing fall migrants. Here are a couple of female Baltimore orioles arguing over perch space near an orange in September. I have a knee-jerk tendency to resist cut off wing tips though it doesn't bother me in this particular shot. Opinions?

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by Gaurav Mittal on Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:14 am

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Good action here. Personally, I would have liked to see this as a horizontal frame without the wings being cut off. The birds
are a bit tight in the frame.

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by kml7090 on Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:19 pm

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Gaurav Mittal wrote:Good action here. Personally, I would have liked to see this as a horizontal frame without the wings being cut off. The birds
are a bit tight in the frame.

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1/1000 sec f/11, ISO 640, no flash

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by Gary Briney on Thu Sep 22, 2016 11:52 pm

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Really nice action -- I agree with Gaurav about the clipped wing.

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by Dorian Anderson on Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:13 am

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This is a nice interaction shot but as it the incomplete flying bird is more distracting than anything else. If you've got the wing tip, I'd use/keep it.

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