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[Oversea] Christmas Island, Australia

Christmas Island, Australia

Christmas Island 31/08/07 - 06/09/07

White-tailed Tropicbird (golden morph) i.e. Golden Bosunbird







White-tailed Tropicbird (white morph)



Red-tailed Tropicbird i.e. Silver Bosunbird



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Re: Christmas Island, Australia

The second last from the bottom awesome. Perfect exposure, graceful gliding posture and razor sharp details.

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Thanks to lwingkay's comment.

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Brown Boobies

Male (blue beak & blue facial skin) and Female (greenish beak & blue facial skin)






Brown Booby chick

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Red-footed Boobies (Sexes are identical in plumage.)







Red- footed Booby chick

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Abbott's Boobies

Male (grey bill)


Female (pink bill)









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Cherry,

Great shots, I have always wanted to go to Christmas Island

Bob

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Christmas Island Frigatebirds

Female


Male


Great Frigatebirds

Female


Male


Lesser Frigatebirds

Female


Male


Juvenile frigatebirds - it is difficult for me to identify them, so I would like to leave this work for the experts.







More frigatebird photos - to be honest, I cannot identify them with confidence!




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Common Noddy



Reef Egret



Christmas Island Goshawks





Nankeen Kestrels



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Java Sparrows





Immature Java Sparrow



Emerald Doves



Immature Emerald Dove



Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon



Christmas Island White-eye



Island Thrush



Christmas Island Hawk-Owl




Thanks for viewing.

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Great photos! What a surprising season's greeting from the Island called Christmas.

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I agree. A real Christmas present. Great photos.

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A great series, Cherry!  8)
Especially those flight shots ...

My thought is that you could have done much better with exposure control though. Were you shooting RAW?
KK Hui FRPS
Personal Website

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Thanks to Bob, Alexander, Geoff and K.K..

I agree with K.K. that I should pay more attention to exposure control.  Would K.K. please advise me how to improve? I was still shooting JPEG.

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cherry, very nice pictures.  thanks for sharing.

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[quote:ec094dce25="wcherry"] ... I agree with K.K. that I should pay more attention to exposure control.  Would K.K. please advise me how to improve? I was still shooting JPEG.[/quote]

Cherry,

As a start, you may want to read the article, Bird Photography - The Basics, I wrote for HKBWS Bulletin 199 (Spring 2006) on Exposure Control; it's on page 9.

Again I'd urge you to start shooting RAW as it's your Digital Negative so to speak. Every bit of info you recorded is in there! By shooting JEPG you're throwing away valuable info on the image unknowingly ...
KK Hui FRPS
Personal Website

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Thank a lot for K.K.' s expert advice.

Thanks also for Eling's comment.

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