Sandy Vongries Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 A few Buzzards. Thought I had the 80-400 sorted out in terms of Auto Focus, but had to switch to Manual in mid stream. Went back for a second try with the 600, but as usual, they had left. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 First one is a hoot 1 Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted September 13, 2017 Author Share Posted September 13, 2017 Thanks. Edwin! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 This is probably in violation of a PN rule but this is only done in appreciation of Sandy's original. If a violation has occurred or if Sandy objects to this post please delete this. 2 additional versions of the undertakers' row come to mind. One in which the contrast and saturation (blood red..) are increased and then the image is cropped. The other is converted to BW and contrast increased reminiscent (to me) of classic (cheesy?) 1950's BW western films. Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted September 13, 2017 Author Share Posted September 13, 2017 only done in appreciation of Sandy's original. Many thanks, Edwin, I enjoy both of your interpretations. This photo is really based on the loss of 2 trees that were favorite photo spots. First was the Buzzard tree, which amusingly enough hung branches over a church. ( You may imagine I had great fun teasing the Minister about that). Any day at dusk, in warm weather they were there in large quantity the second just recently, was the eagle tree having been blown down. Have only had a single chance at an Eagle since the tree went down. These nice fellows were present only because of a very large roadkill porcupine. Imagine even they dine carefully on that meat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 With all due respect to the variations, I must say I prefer the original for its framing. In the variations, the vultures are the subject, but in the original, it's the vultures and their environment. Opinion only, of course, but I think the first shot gets it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted September 15, 2017 Author Share Posted September 15, 2017 Opinion only, of course, but I think the first shot gets it right. Thanks, Matthew -- what Edwin was doing was venturing into the '50's Cowboy to Spaghetti Western Genre -- Clint Eastwood in Fist Full of Dollars. The Director would have loved the shot and probably set it up similarly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 A Fistful of Dollars - excellent choice, Sandy. Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Jes' sayin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Don't get me wrong. I like the modifications too. You can practically hear Morricone twanging in the background. But I think in the movie it would have started with that shot and then moved to include whatever they're waiting for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 Jes' sayin' Local vernacular, Turkey Buzzard -- you're probably right.!:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Hey, in ma native dialek, it wolda been buzzard too.;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Jes' sayin' :-) UK "Buzzards" are "Hawks" in the USA. "Vulture" and "buzzard" are used interchangeably by most of the US population, to name vultures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 are used interchangeably by most of the US population Yeah, as I said, but you lose points with the "birders". It's like calling a bison, a buffalo, or a red-breasted thrush, a robin. This is the insidious, creeping "nomenclatural correctness" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 This is the insidious, creeping "nomenclatural correctness" Surely you mean 'Scientific Accuracy' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 (edited) 'Scientific Accuracy' Can you be serious in this time of "alternative facts"? (link) As a scientist I say one thing. as a pore boy from Kanzas I say another Edited September 18, 2017 by JDMvW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 I think this is part of the problem with common or vernacular names. I have been scolded for referring to Laetiporus sulphureus as chicken-of-the-woods as opposed to chicken mushroom. Give me a break! Not that there aren't arguments about the proper binomial name for an organism, or whether the yellow rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata) is a unitary species or not, but those are different issues. Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted September 18, 2017 Author Share Posted September 18, 2017 I keep flashing back in time "Tastes just like wild hickory nuts!" :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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