Photos of our racing pigeons

[Devo1956]

I think this ia a topic that will have mixed views, so what are members thoughts. When they are putting up a photo of their birds, is it a natural photo or do you like photos enanced? I have been working on some photos on gloss print photo paper, I must say I do like the outcome.

[NeilA]

Natural photos of birds for sale I wouldn’t touch one that’s not natural anymore

If a fancier wants a touched up one of a champion for his own wall etc like people do pets then i understand that

[Buster121]

Natural every time for me

[MIL]

I've always been a bit half-soaked with photo's of my birds really

The only ones I had done (as a rule) were pigeons that had "won" something significant and were awarded the photograph as a consequence of the result.
Having said that there were plenty that I never bothered having done - "Champion Eddy" for instance. He never had his image done. I knew he wouldn't appreciate it so his wishes came before mine.

[Mark69]

Definitely a natural photo everytime for me ,these photo shopped images on auction sites are terrible

[Andy]

Definitely natural for me. Don’t like the photo shot or touched up ones. Not a true reflection of the pigeon.

[PeteDerby]

When I was in the sport before it was a badge of honour to have a picture on your wall of a fed topper by a chap called Anthony Bolton I seem to remember. I don’t suppose he’s still doing it?

[MIL]

Can't say I've seen any of Anthony's work for a while

I know Peter Bennett still does his

[king]

When I was in the sport before it was a badge of honour to have a picture on your wall of a fed topper by a chap called Anthony Bolton I seem to remember. I don’t suppose he’s still doing it?

Anthony Bolton photos were excellent in b&w but not that good in colour. He used to touch up them up. Louella used him a lot. His colour photos were false colours. I recall being at Louella many years ago at saw the picture of 'Shy Lass' in the photo it had a green ring. But the bird was bred in 1975 and should have had a BLUE ring. To this day when I see a colour photo of a bird I always use the ring colour as a reference point. If the ring is the right colour, the bird will be.

[Murray]

This is what my pingwings look like.
You may like them or not like them. They haven't been cut and modified.
I like them, anyway.