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Siberian Jay (Lavskrika)


Siberian Jay (Lavskrika)
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Copyright: Gert Ellstrom (ellis49) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3386 W: 343 N: 9461] (30757)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-03-18
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 40 D, Canon EF 300mm / F2.8 L USM, Digital RAW 400
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/400 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): CeltickRanger's favorite Bird photos -4- [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2009-03-19 7:55
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First I will thank all for the nice comments and words of my last post.

Todays post is one of my absolute favorites, the Siberian Jay, Lavskrika.
It’s not so common bird on TN and it’s not so common in reality either.
We were four friends to visit them yesterday, including Micke (tamrock) as you already know.
It normally lives far north in our country but small population live not far from me,
We have to travel around 70km north to find the first group, a small family group with 5 birds. All are ringed because it’s a very unique bird.
As I told before it’s a social bird not shy of people, they will come to you when visit the habitat and if you bribe them with “Falun Sausage” they will pose nicely for you.
It’s a quite bird how flying on very quite wings.
I think I took 500 shot of them, so I have plenty of jobs to do in the weekend.:-)
I hope like the beautiful bird.

Siberian Jays are rather comical birds, fluttering around in the branches of pine trees or hopping about on the ground like overgrown tits. They are often silent and tend to bunch together in small parties so they can be tricky to find, but if you do see them they can be very approachable and will often fly right up to you. They are unmistakable birds about Mistle Thrush-size but with rusty red tails and wing panels.

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Canon 300mm/F2.8 LTripod
ISO 400, Raw-format, AV-mode, spot metering +2/3 Ev
Converted in Canon DPP, Levels, Contrast, Crop, resized to 800 pixels, Smart Sharpen ,PP in PS CS4.
Well calibrated Eizo monitor

Argus, Morigann, zulfu, nasokoun, Heaven, crs, iris, eng55, maurydv, oldferret, siggi, Noisette, CeltickRanger, Luis52, boreocypriensis, Alex99 has marked this note useful
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Hello Gert

This bird is giving you quite the friendly look. Nice eye contact,with excellent details.
Caught nicely in a natural environment.
Nicely done on the DOF.
TFS

Marx

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3750 W: 187 N: 11171] (34499)
  • [2009-03-19 8:42]

Hej Gert,
A delightful capture of Lavskrikan a wonderful bird that I had the pleasure of photographing last summer in the mountains. I can't fault this image and I especially like the lighting from below coming from the reflection of the snow.
Thanks for sharing this fine choice from your 500 shots!
Hälsningar,
Ivan

Det har varit mestadels soligt idag och igår men det blåser snålt. Vi fick några bilder på lappugglan i Falsterbo men den satt djupt in i tallen och det fanns alldeles för många kvistar och grenar för att kunna vara nöjd med resultaten.

Hello Gert,
I didn't know this specie of Jay. He is very beautiful.
Your capture is wonderful with superb details.
Well done
Regards
Pierre

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  • zulfu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1021 W: 0 N: 162] (858)
  • [2009-03-19 9:06]

Superb shot of this pretty bird with excellent quality.
TFS and G's,
Mehmet

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  • PeterZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2348 W: 92 N: 5361] (17140)
  • [2009-03-19 9:13]

Hello Gert,
What a beauty! Everything in this photo is gorgeous. Sharpness, details, light, pose, DOF, branch and BG are all splendid. Superb!
Regards,
Peter

Hi, Gert.

You have composed this image very well. I love the pose of the bird. The warm lighting is excellent, and your exposure is right on the mark. I like the sharp focus on the bird as well as the tree, which seems to have a character of its own. I also like the empty space on the left side of the frame. It seems to work very well in this image.

Regards,
Randy

Hi Gert,
A nice capture of this beautiful Jay. Superb sharp details and a very good composition. Thanks a lot for sharing.

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  • Arjun Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 357 W: 7 N: 1092] (5292)
  • [2009-03-19 9:52]

hi gert,
Amazing picture of this beautiful jay. fantastic composition and excellent details
TFS

beautiful photo as always
best regards
Nasos

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  • Heaven Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 779 W: 105 N: 1675] (5850)
  • [2009-03-19 10:25]

Hi Gert!

I can understand that this beauty is one of your favourites. You also express this with this very neat image. It's crystal clear and the sharpness reveals great details. The lighting and colour management is superb and creates a very pleasant impression. Moreover, I like the bird's pose very much. I also appreciate the interesting and instructive notes and I'm glad that you are able to present a rather rare picture.

Kind regards

Markus

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  • crs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 524 W: 0 N: 920] (3543)
  • [2009-03-19 10:29]

Hello gert,

This is a very fine photo of the bird. The light you havecaptured is very nice. Moreover the quality of the image is high shwoing the bird in great details. The colors of the plumage and those of the background matches nicely.

Thank you for sharing,
Cristian

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  • zetu Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 643 W: 15 N: 1562] (6091)
  • [2009-03-19 10:46]

Hello Gert
Excellent capture with great details and perfect focus.
Regards
Razvan

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  • eng55 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1074 W: 30 N: 1046] (3270)
  • [2009-03-19 11:07]

Hi Gert,
Magnificent capture.Details on plumage areamazing.POV,lighting,colors an d pose of bird are perfect.Very well done!
Thanks for posting.

Hello Gert,
a wonderful picture of Siberian Jay, i understand that this fantastic bird is one of your absolute favorites; POV, sharpness, lighting and colours are excellent in a very nice composition. Eccezionale, bravissimo.
TFS
Best regards
Maurizio

Hi Gert,
this bird is new for me, never saw it before.
I love the pose and the warm colours.
Sharpness cannot be better.
Very elegant one, thanks and greetings
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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  • cako Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 545 W: 0 N: 735] (3213)
  • [2009-03-19 11:57]

Hi Gert
exellent image
very good sharp and detail
very well done.

Hi Gert,
I love the way that this bird is illuminted from below, Great colours and sharpness of the bird. Like the composition, bird looking away from tree. TFS.
Regards
Bill

Ciao Gert, wonderful composition with splendid bird, great colors, fine details, perfect focus and beautiful blurry BG, very well done, ciao Silvio

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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1338 W: 56 N: 4515] (15556)
  • [2009-03-19 12:54]

Hello Gert,
Lovely captured of this beautiful Siberian Jay.
Perfect sharpness, vivid colour and so much details especailly the clarity on plummage, Superb!
Best regards Siggi

hello Gert
beautiful picture
great sharpness with good details
good composition
greeting lou

Hello Gert
outstanding capture of this siberian jay, his pose is wonderfull with his head turned, the sharpness on his face, the fine details on the feathers on his breast, his shiny eye and the beautiful grey BG are absolutely delicious, even th tree trunk makes this picture more attractive
Very well done
Jacquelne

hello Gert

what a beautiful close-up photo of the Siberian Jay,
fine frontal POV, fine framing with leaving a good
space where the bird is looking, beautiful warm luminosity,
great sharpness and details, TFS

Asbed

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  • Luis52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1109 W: 5 N: 3453] (12751)
  • [2009-03-19 15:24]

Hola Gert.
This is one of the most beautiful photos of birds I have ever seen here in TN.
Top quality lavels in all the image and super high sharpness and colours.
For those friends in TN who uses Pro lenses I always demand this kind of photos.
My best congratulation.
Luis52.

Hello Gert,
What a beautiful capture of the Siberian jay.
You've brought the subtle colours out very well here.
Sharpness and DOF are very good and its nicely composed.
A great shot all round.
Well done.
Steve

Ohhh... a masterpiece work absolutely Gert! Simply great shot in all around MF! By the way, i recorded a butterfly species as a first record for Izmir province yesterday -Polyconia c-album-:)
All the best! Have a great night MF!
Cheers,

Bayram

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3556 W: 143 N: 5626] (18415)
  • [2009-03-19 23:04]

Yes, Gret.
It is brilliance. It is one of the best shot I have ever seen. My heartfelt congratulations. I will no speak about beautifulness ness of the pictured scene. It is can see everybody who has eyes. However, it is fantastic. But quality of the image is unbelievable. First of all it is great DOF and details/sharpness of the amazing bird and so amazing trunk. BG is cannot be more suitable and more delicate for this colourful subject. Lights of the shot is terrific too. All in All it is fantastic. Bravo.
Alexei.

Excellent sharpness here and the colors are amazing. I liked the composition as well, but had to dig deep to find a nit :-) and could not, but the space on the right after the tree is bit distracting is what I feel, let me do a quick workshop :-).. oops where is the work shop link !

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  • jignasi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1240 W: 0 N: 1991] (14415)
  • [2009-03-19 23:45]

Hola Gert,

ya nos tienes acostumbrados a tus buenos trabajos y en este caso no es diferente.
Un buen encuadre y un enfoque yo diría que perfecto sobre todo el la parte superior de la fotografía.
No me canso de observar la zona de la cabeza del ave, de gran realismo.
Un saludo: Josep Ignasi.

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1169 W: 4 N: 3260] (14687)
  • [2009-03-20 8:33]

This is a beautiful shot with brilliant PoV. Great friendly look. Ganesh

Ciao Ellis,
foto di una bellezza commovente. Tutto è perfetto: luce, composizione, POV, DOF, nitidezza.
La ghiandaia siberiana è una delle specie più belle del paleartico.
TFS
Angelo

bonjour gert
je partage l'avis de goutham pour le cadrage mais pour le reste il n'y a rien a dire!!!
c'est splendide.
bravo.
laurent

Hello Gert.

Excellent image, nice composition and colors.
Beatiful Bird.

Regards.
Jose Luis.

Beautiful, jättebra, congratulations!

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