Nov 25th
Decided I really needed to practice some BIF shots, ohoo am I slow, so out to the Hatchery I went. There are enough Canada Geese and gulls out there to populate the whole state and they are spooky as can be. Exposure comp can be interesting when both take off at once and in some cases leaving the EC at 0 worked best and I went for a quite few that I should have just let alone. As a good friend and photog likes to remind me; there are time when it just isn't going to work so leave off. I like a challenge, also a great way to learn, so I often will ignore his advice:-) After taking a bunch of mass lift off shots, I'm bad a groups, I went for trying to lock on one bird and stay with it. I had also set the 400 switch to 8.5m to cut down on focus time, gulls being gulls just don't like to play by the rules so had to go back to the 3.5m. Blah! Nothing fancy just a nice time trying to improve my skill in one of the many areas I need to work on:-)
I also didn't bring any extra CF cards with me so dumped a few shots just before we left since there are EAGLES out there. Don kept running this wonderful scenario by me..Eagle comes in, perfect light and angle and YOU have a full CF card..Nice guy huh?
So here is one practice shot and a link to my personal best, but not great, King Fisher shot. Hah I'll take one of these guys anyway I can get them
http://thusie.smugmug.com/gallery/2028713/4/112752931/Large
Decided I really needed to practice some BIF shots, ohoo am I slow, so out to the Hatchery I went. There are enough Canada Geese and gulls out there to populate the whole state and they are spooky as can be. Exposure comp can be interesting when both take off at once and in some cases leaving the EC at 0 worked best and I went for a quite few that I should have just let alone. As a good friend and photog likes to remind me; there are time when it just isn't going to work so leave off. I like a challenge, also a great way to learn, so I often will ignore his advice:-) After taking a bunch of mass lift off shots, I'm bad a groups, I went for trying to lock on one bird and stay with it. I had also set the 400 switch to 8.5m to cut down on focus time, gulls being gulls just don't like to play by the rules so had to go back to the 3.5m. Blah! Nothing fancy just a nice time trying to improve my skill in one of the many areas I need to work on:-)
I also didn't bring any extra CF cards with me so dumped a few shots just before we left since there are EAGLES out there. Don kept running this wonderful scenario by me..Eagle comes in, perfect light and angle and YOU have a full CF card..Nice guy huh?
So here is one practice shot and a link to my personal best, but not great, King Fisher shot. Hah I'll take one of these guys anyway I can get them
http://thusie.smugmug.com/gallery/2028713/4/112752931/Large
Nov 25th
Decided I really needed to practice some BIF shots, ohoo am I slow, so out to the Hatchery I went. There are enough Canada Geese and gulls out there to populate the whole state and they are spooky as can be. Exposure comp can be interesting when both take off at once and in some cases leaving the EC at 0 worked best and I went for a quite few that I should have just let alone. As a good friend and photog likes to remind me; there are time when it just isn't going to work so leave off. I like a challenge, also a great way to learn, so I often will ignore his advice:-) After taking a bunch of mass lift off shots, I'm bad a groups, I went for trying to lock on one bird and stay with it. I had also set the 400 switch to 8.5m to cut down on focus time, gulls being gulls just don't like to play by the rules so had to go back to the 3.5m. Blah! Nothing fancy just a nice time trying to improve my skill in one of the many areas I need to work on:-)
I also didn't bring any extra CF cards with me so dumped a few shots just before we left since there are EAGLES out there. Don kept running this wonderful scenario by me..Eagle comes in, perfect light and angle and YOU have a full CF card..Nice guy huh?
So here is one practice shot and a link to my personal best, but not great, King Fisher shot. Hah I'll take one of these guys anyway I can get them
http://thusie.smugmug.com/gallery/2028713/4/112752931/Large
Decided I really needed to practice some BIF shots, ohoo am I slow, so out to the Hatchery I went. There are enough Canada Geese and gulls out there to populate the whole state and they are spooky as can be. Exposure comp can be interesting when both take off at once and in some cases leaving the EC at 0 worked best and I went for a quite few that I should have just let alone. As a good friend and photog likes to remind me; there are time when it just isn't going to work so leave off. I like a challenge, also a great way to learn, so I often will ignore his advice:-) After taking a bunch of mass lift off shots, I'm bad a groups, I went for trying to lock on one bird and stay with it. I had also set the 400 switch to 8.5m to cut down on focus time, gulls being gulls just don't like to play by the rules so had to go back to the 3.5m. Blah! Nothing fancy just a nice time trying to improve my skill in one of the many areas I need to work on:-)
I also didn't bring any extra CF cards with me so dumped a few shots just before we left since there are EAGLES out there. Don kept running this wonderful scenario by me..Eagle comes in, perfect light and angle and YOU have a full CF card..Nice guy huh?
So here is one practice shot and a link to my personal best, but not great, King Fisher shot. Hah I'll take one of these guys anyway I can get them
http://thusie.smugmug.com/gallery/2028713/4/112752931/Large
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