CeasarsDad

No it's not FairY...

Ahh.... Well, I'm the fastest at getting my hair done... The routine I layed out above is truely the whole story.. Literally minutes... Pony Tails are GREAT... :P You woman have had it made for YEARS... Lucky you.. but I do use up all the shampoo.... <br><br>Post edited by: CeasarsDad, at: 2007/06/02 15:20

xxbeccyxx wrote: Beccy... Don't like long hair on men?

judygram wrote: Yep.. I spend TONS of time on my hair.. Here goes.. Out of the shower.. towel it somewhat.. A small amount of gel is spread out in my left hand.. I rub my hands together.. then I rub the gel all over my hair... Next comes the brush.. The hair gets brushed back... Out out comes the rubber band... and presto.. complete.. All of about 2 minutes..

Now now Talon.. where did you get that clip from?

I LOVE that... Thank you Talon...

Amazons are NOTHING like Greys... Don't mix them... I owned an Amazon and it was a nightmare.. I want you to imagine you spend your entire day doing your hair... I really mean the entire day... Then all of a sudden someone comes in and messes your hair up.. How's that make you feel? Now think of birds.. What are they doing most of the day? Grooming themselves? Yes.. so does it make sense that they don't want you to touch them? It does.. Respect them for that... That being said.. If you work with the bird everyday you will be able to touch them.. I do with Ceasar. But again.. it's within reason... Birds are not puppies.. When you understand this you will have a much easier time dealing with the NO TOUCH policy.... I know you want to cuddle them.. and you can... try this. Get them in a blanket at night.. Cover them up.. They go into a trance.. You can do whatever you want to to them at this point... Try it... You'll see..... Welcome to the family.. I would call it a forum but that's not what this is......

What do you want to spend... Did you know we have a photography thread just for this kind of question.. I can certainly recommend something in your budget...

YIKES.. :unsure: I was just kidding....

Now now FairY.. Where's you mind at? Want my address? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

That's when you go out naked at night.. always results in better picture quality.... better quality for those that are shooting YOU... Not what your shooting....:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Sorry, I just had to.... No, shooting in RAW is shooting in a format that comes directly off the imaging sensor.. No in camera processing is done. Using this mode results in the ability of the photographer to do things to the photos he/she couldn't do in other formats... The files never lose quality like JPG's do.. It is the prefered format of many professional and advanced armatures alike.....<br><br>Post edited by: CeasarsDad, at: 2007/06/01 01:05

Talon, Ceasar comes with us for coffee in the morning.. It's really funny to watch... He will wait and wait for the coffee lid... He knows he gets the coffee lid to play with.. How smart they are....

Me too... I'm glad you joined too Gawie...

You could make one yourself...

Harrison's Adult Lifetime Fine High Potency... Now that's a mouthful...

Sounds like good advice from judy....

That's the silliest think I ever read.. There is no reason to be afraid. Think of RAW as you digital negative. It is there so you can edited you photos without losing quailty. JPG losing quality everytime you edit and save a photo.. What you want to do is shoot in raw.. Edit you photos in photoshop or the camera's own raw software then save to jpg.. This is what I have always done.. Plus RAW gives you the ability to change things like white balance you can't change with other formats...<br><br>Post edited by: CeasarsDad, at: 2007/05/30 03:07

Heather. I'm seeing much better results with the background.. The problem with your focus is you need to focus on his head... keep the shutter pressed halfway, recompose your shot and shoot... You would be focus locking on his head.. which is what you want to do.. I like these shots.. Start shooting in RAW.. its a much better format with higher quality... I'm here to help you heather... Use me..

HeatherStrella wrote: Good on the external flash.. Good on the "bouncing board" Regarding the f stop.. Yes, there is a point that will achieve what you are looking for.. which is all of your bird in focus.. That would occure way before you needed F11.. Something like 5.6 should do it.. If you move your bird further away from the background you can further blur it.. Which is what you want to do... Are you shooting in RAW? or just JPG? When you say the pictures were dark.. Perhaps you had backlight and your cameras meter was locked on to that? You might have needed some exposure compensation.. Remember the formular.. Light background = Lighter exposure or positive. Dark Background = Darker exposure or Negative..<br><br>Post edited by: CeasarsDad, at: 2007/05/30 02:43

Heather, First off you photos don't look bad.. So don't be so worried about them.. Before we go any further trying to tweek your photos understand that everything depends on the lens you are using.... Can you tell me what lens you have on your camera? Was this the lens that came with the camera? Most "kit" lenses are not of the best quality the manufacturer has.. Pro level lenses are available that will show increased resolution and contrast. I think this is what you see in some of my shots. Higher then normal contrast will cause the resolution to look better.. Again, this is a function of the lens first... then the camera.. Now sometimes there are settings in your camera's menu that allow you to change the contrast settings.. You might want to look at that and see if you can go with more contrast settings... Now, things can be done to your photos to improve upon what you have now.. No question.. Let start with the first image.. 11harrison.jpg. There you used an aperture too small.. You used F11.. No good because you do not want to see much of the background. By using F11 you are causing the depth of field to be too deep.. It's distracting to see so much of the backgound.. Add to that you have very high back light as a further distraction... Try stopping down your lens to say 3.5 or smaller. You will notice a remarkable difference.... Also don't use ISO 400 in daylight. It is not your cameras best mode.. It adds noise you don't need. The next photo 11harrison2.jpg suffers from flat flash. Did you use an on camera flash for this? If you did this is why it look flat.. Correctly exposted but flat.... Bounce flash would have been much better.. Now, bounce flash outside it difficult becasue there are no walls or ceilings to bounce off.. They sell something called a Lumiquest for this.. If you have an external flash Lumiquest will help here.. If you don't you need an external flash unit.. Otherwise you can't correct what you see.. Once again you have an F stop too small for this subject.. you want to isolate the subject from the background.. Open up the lense to your smallest number and you will see a difference... The other thing you need to always remember is there is only 2 times a day when you have good light outdoors.. Early morning and late afternoon.. If you are shooting outside these times you will not get the best looking photos no matter what you are shooting with... You want LOW LIGHT.. Not light that is high overhead... These photos show the light coming from the side.. MUCH BETTER then overhead light.. To get slightly better resolution you need to be shooting in RAW format.. Are you??? Thank you for asking these questions. I appreciate you confidence in me.. Hopefully I won't let you down.. <br><br>Post edited by: CeasarsDad, at: 2007/05/30 02:26

Ahhhh what a waste of a good sex toy.. Gee, I could have used that... :P :P

Talon wrote: NO NO.. I never want you to stop laughing.. I was just kidding...

Caspersmum.. I can remember the time when I took ceasar out of his cage for his morning poop and saw BRIGHT RED poop.. Oh my god Ceasar was dying.. What was wrong with him. He's bleeding.. and on and on my mind went.. I was ready to get him to the Vet when Anna said.. The kids gave him a Twizzler... :angry: So when I say poop color is effected by what they eat.. I mean that from experience..

Yeah, I started to let Ceasars wings grow out. He has 2 flight feathers on the outsides of his wings fully grown.. Just a few more and he'll be flying..

I'm with the others on this.. Ceasars poop has been almost every possible color in the rainbow.. It always is caused by what he eats...