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Nov 30th, 2008 at 12:25 PM
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~Tina
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What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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He's got his hair all slicked back for you too, Dodge!
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nice. looks like you had the kind of day we had here.
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The Bird Man
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Hey, that's NOT Dodge's Cardinal! He's been staying in MY yard......SEE!
Kingdoms RAGE and go to war...but the PEasants plant potatoes..
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Oh my gosh........Thanks Sheri/Thorn,
Those are beautiful.
I have a red sweat on to greet him too..
Don't you see a lady with him/
Or is yours single?
Lol
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Arrrgh, Thar be a lady sez I. But she be not allowed on me ship. 'Tis bad luck ye ken.
Kingdoms RAGE and go to war...but the PEasants plant potatoes..
EARTH FIRST! (we'll strip-mine the OTHER planets later.)
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he's looking for you again dodge.
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That is so pretty ......
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they show up here but they are so skiddish. One movement and they're gone. I think they're chicken birds.
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After he left Sheri's house, he stopped by here...
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After he left Sheri's house, he stopped by here...
Must be using sunflowers?
I arent .. Yet>>>>>>
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My feeders have benn empty for a month but STILL they come!
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EARTH FIRST! (we'll strip-mine the OTHER planets later.)
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Another Cardinal stopped by the other day......
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EARTH FIRST! (we'll strip-mine the OTHER planets later.)
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oH MY GOD THORN........Congrats are in order..
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Why, I didn't EVEN notice!!! How 'bout that!
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Of course this Starling came and drove the Cardinal out of the tree so that it could eat all the berries itself......
So I gues the Cardinal went down to a hospital pond near my house to relax......
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holy
No conceit in tennessee...........
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why are your feeders empty?
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The Bird Man
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CHristmas shopping on a limited income takes ALL your money.
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Takes Brains too.........
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Duhhhh.......BRAINS?......more brains!
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take my present back Thorn and get the starving birds some
seed . I really don't need that camera lens.
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They ain't starving. I gots a tree FULL of pears and put out the food scraps they like everyday. Just not in the feeders.
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ok good then I'll be looking for my new lens.
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he's waiting in the rain again dodge.
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Thats cute .. Is that tree pretty close to the house?
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No dodge. That shrub is about 40 feet from the house.
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What settings do you use to get it that far away.......I cant.
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I had it on auto and used the zoom.
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AUTO is the best to use at first, even for DSLR cameras like mine, until you begin to learn your camera in more detail.
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Isnt he the cutest Informat??????
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I think auto is the setting that focuses the easiest. I took that through the window and needed instant focus. What setting would you have used Thorn? Dodge? I just used the zoom to bring it in.
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My best setting is probably on a chair.LOL
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me too dodge. If we can zoom everything from our chair we'll be ok.
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Use a tripod. It is a NECESSITY for SLR photography, especially with the big lenses like I use. I usually shoot in SHUTTER PRIORITY mode with automatic WHITE BALANCE and an ISO of from 400 to 1600. I set my shutter speed to about 1/200, and use a flash, even in the daylight. It brings out color clarity and detail MUCH better. I use EVALUATIVE METERING and centered Automatic Focusing.
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What really makes your photos POP is after processing, through your computer, using a good photo processing program. I use Adobe Photoshop CS4 with a Noise Ninja Plug-in. I took your Cardinal picture, Sheri. First I sharpened it using the SHARPEN Filter, then I removed the fuzzy graininess that ALL DIGITAL cameras produce by using the NOISE > Despeckle Filter. Then I ran it through Noise Ninja TO CLEAR AND SHARPEN IT EVEN MORE.
Now, on to the IMAGE > ADJUST phase where I optimized the TONE, then Optimized the LEVELS of dark and light. I increased the color SATURATION to make the colors ZING! Finally, I went to the SHADOWS AND HIGHLIGHTS section to brighten and or darken the shadows and highlights in the picture. The results are......
Ta - DAAAAHHHH!
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did you download Adobe Photoshop CS4 from the internet? I use Iranview and it doesn't have all those filters. It does have the sharpen choice.
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