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Water rail

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Posted by John Robinson on November 4, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Water rail
Water Rail
These guys never seem to stop. If it was film days the bin would be full up. !
D300 Sigma 100-300
500ISO
250th @f8
70%of full frame
CS3 Levels
Sharpen czm
Bright leaf cloned out.
Cheers
JR
Posted by Geoffrey Baker on November 4, 2010 at 6:18 PM
The lighting looks perfect to me John :smile:
What a beautiful bird, never seen one myself :frown:
Well captured.

Geoff.
Posted by John Robinson on November 4, 2010 at 6:25 PM
Thanks Geoff
They are one of the birds that respond to feeding very easily( strangely this one wasn't )Maggots, chrysalis, mealworms. If you make a specific noise every time you visit the site they will end up almost coming out to meet you.
Because they are so secretive, they are much commoner than people think.
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Ron McCombe on November 4, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Nice one
Posted by Maggie Campbell on November 4, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Nice one John. Good to see one so close. :wavey:
Posted by Neil Burton on November 5, 2010 at 4:07 AM
Pretty damn excellent!
Posted by Mike Smith on November 5, 2010 at 5:36 AM
Yup this one does it for me as well, I love the angled stick and grass stem which reproduces the rail's neck line keeping the image flowing left to right.

Posted by PhilH on November 5, 2010 at 6:02 AM
Good one John....
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Posted by Matt Cole on November 5, 2010 at 6:14 AM
that is a nice one John, I like the bird's pose and colours.

Matt :toast:
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on November 5, 2010 at 6:17 AM
Hi John a very nice image, but D300 ?.

Phil.

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Posted by John Robinson on November 5, 2010 at 8:37 AM
Thanks all.
Phil- well spotted ! No its your D200 - got side tracked with the Sigma 300 :biggrin:
Good job the wife didn't see it !
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by David Sewell on November 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Great image, John. Like the fieldcraft as well. Water rails that come when you call? That's impressive.

David
Posted by Kim Connolly on November 5, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Fabulous shot!! :toast:
Posted by eric weight on November 5, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Nicely done John. We had a lot of them around here last year, I gather there was something of an influx. I'm hoping for something similar this year as these are a favourite of mine.
:wavey: :toast: eric
Posted by Heath McDonald on November 5, 2010 at 4:13 PM
Like this John, a very natural setting with good detail.

Heath :toast:
Posted by Tom_W on November 5, 2010 at 4:54 PM
Very nicely done and a hard bird to get - Frederic will be calling :wink:

T
Posted by David Kjaer on November 5, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Very nice John - great setting.

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on November 6, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Thanks all.Your comments are appreciated.
Didn,t do it with this one but, often when you are feeding , if you make the same distinctive noise they soon learn. An old photographer friend of mine used a stone in an empty tin he kept in the hide. Some say its cheating but its no different from peanuts in the garden in my view,
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Barry Southon on November 7, 2010 at 10:59 AM
John

A first class image of an elusive species. I'll try the tin.
:wink: