MY FRIEND THE PIGEON

[Julian de'Courcy]

Pigeons our way tend to get shot. Even the nice white ones. For some reason this friendly pigeon liked me and followed me about for a while. I said thank you and said that I would make him/her famous by putting it's photo on RPF ( I might add I don't shoot pigeons)


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_B270113 by JuliandeCourcy, on Flickr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

The hard and the soft, the coloured and he white - beautifully balanced, Julian.

 

[Pete Askew]

Lovely shot and PP Julian but you should have realised. That was no ordinary pigeon. That was A Dodkin Surveillance Pigeon (DSP, relate to DSGs) and had probably been sent to try to work out the secrets of your wonderful technique!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Oh, that could well be true. But I'm not sure if Julian knows about DSPs. They seemed to be everywhere a while back. Now they're going covert. This one must have broke ranks.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I'm not allowed to say whether I know about DSPs I knowChris is more than capable.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I liked that photo as you took it Julian - that's all I'm sayin'

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I liked that photo as you took it Julian - that's all I'm sayin'

Chris the secret is to take the lens cap off, press that button which is usually on the top right.

 

[Pete Askew]

He eventually worked out the lens cap one - probably feedback from one of the DSPs.

 

[Paul Lange]

That is a fine pigeon if ever I saw one (and I have seen loads). Very healthy too, looks well fed to me. Nice and crisp and and when you consider the darkish background and the white pigeon well balance exposure too.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

He eventually worked out the lens cap one - probably feedback from one of the DSPs.

He worked out to keep the lens cap on, not from DSP's but from DPR.

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That is a fine pigeon if ever I saw one (and I have seen loads). Very healthy too, looks well fed to me. Nice and crisp and and when you consider the darkish background and the white pigeon well balance exposure too.

Swans are another one that is sooo difficult. Today's cameras it seems best to spot focus on the white and bring up the dark's. The pigeons all had a pinky muddy backside. Me thinks there is another pigeon who has access to some cling film.

 

[Ahmad Bhai]

Dastardly & Muttley would very much liked to stop this pigeon

Swans are another one that is sooo difficult. Today's cameras it seems best to spot focus on the white and bring up

Some lenses do better (i think), i had vivitar (komine) 28mm f2.8 on EP1 it did swans quite well.

 

[Steve Boykin]

Chris the secret is to take the lens cap off, press that button which is usually on the top right.

Now you tell me!!! Lens cap huh. Pete that would explain why no matter how hard I tried I couldn't recover anything from the shadows...

That is a beautiful photo Julian. I would say it's perfect.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Excellent exposure Julian. Also that pocket of light really makes the whole picture work.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Excellent exposure Julian. Also that pocket of light really makes the whole picture work.

I did of course cheat there, and I did myself think at the time it worked. Thanks for noticing.