Finally a pubished pic online with Olympus

[Niloc]

I finally got a photo published online with Olympus just click the link below then click on the month of MAY and then count over from left to right 13 pics and you will see mine..if you slide the cursor up to the top of the pic you will see a little blurb that I had to write, I have been trying for a year to get a pic on the Olympus site...
 
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_secti ... e_form.asp

[Kin Lau]

Very cool. Nice job on the woody.

[Niloc]

Thanks Kin, I know it's not really that big of a deal but for me since I bought the E3 over a year ago I have been trying to get something on that site lol!

[mr.sharp-photo]

the high park wood ducks are cheatin' photos!
those things are so tame that you can probably convince them to go to a home studio and pose for 30 min or so.

its a great shot.
you see the male wood duck on the Don River yet? there's a female as well, i think, and some ducklings. but they do not like human contact.

[Niloc]

Actually those pics were taken not at the Duck pond but a seperate little pond way past the big Dock past where the Swan was nesting in other words a much more difficukt pic to capture which is why the ISO is so high as the lighting was pretty dark...Soon as all this rain lets up I will venture out to the place you mentioned I really appreciate it I will try and post some great pics - cheer!

[Anonymous]

Great job Colin, happy for ya!

[Niloc]

Thanks Attila just one of those little things I wanted to accomplish as I am really happy with my E3....

[mr.sharp-photo]

Actually those pics were taken not at the Duck pond but a seperate little pond way past the big Dock past where the Swan was nesting in other words a much more difficukt pic to capture which is why the ISO is so high as the lighting was pretty dark...Soon as all this rain lets up I will venture out to the place you mentioned I really appreciate it I will try and post some great pics - cheer!

been to High Park once this year. Grenadier Pond has the swans and wood ducks, if i remember correctly. taking pictures near the zoo is 100% cheating!!

but seriously, the wood ducks at high park are good subjects because (sadly) people keep on feeding them bread. so usually they come pretty close to the shore. in the right lighting, you can get great captures (like yours were)

[Niloc]

That's interesting because everyone I encountered at High Park in regards to the Wood Ducks do not feed them and secondly everyone said it is extremely hard to get good pics as they are very elusive, right now is the exception as there are 18 baby Wood Ducks and they practically walked right over my boot last time I was there but they do not have the amazing colours yet....

[David Shilman]

Nice pic, congrats!

[mr.sharp-photo]

That's interesting because everyone I encountered at High Park in regards to the Wood Ducks do not feed them and secondly everyone said it is extremely hard to get good pics as they are very elusive, right now is the exception as there are 18 baby Wood Ducks and they practically walked right over my boot last time I was there but they do not have the amazing colours yet....

really?
again, i may be making a sweeping generalization, since i've only been by the Grenadier pond once.
but some dumbdumbs had bags of bread and, before they even opened them up, the ducks (including 2-3 wood ducks) were by the shoreline.

was also told by a photographer who i met at the Brickworks in April that he loves High Park because the wood ducks are so tame.

bottom line: who cares? as long as you aren't doing anything that would negatively effect the birds (like feeding them bread, IMO) and you can either luck into a tame bird or luck into a great shot, its all good.