nigelblake
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Hi
I had a fantastic session with the Barn Owls at Welney again yesterday, in some respects this is picking up on issues raised in other threads, the whole art of bird photography is much more dependent on you being as inconspicuous as possible so that the birds come close to you, this is so much more effective than you trying to get close to the bird, they are naturally wary but if you are not perceived as a threat to them, then they will carry on with their habits unaware of your presence.
This shot was taken with a 100-400mm IS lens on my D60, the bird hovered for possibly 15 to 20 seconds about 12-15 feet away allowing me to get about 25 images, all are quite stunning and I will post a page of them on my web site later, 1/250th-1/320th at f9.5 set on AV, underexposed by 1/2 stop and then brightened in photoshop, why? this means that the highlights do not burn out so I retain detail which would be lost if overexposed.
Nigel
I had a fantastic session with the Barn Owls at Welney again yesterday, in some respects this is picking up on issues raised in other threads, the whole art of bird photography is much more dependent on you being as inconspicuous as possible so that the birds come close to you, this is so much more effective than you trying to get close to the bird, they are naturally wary but if you are not perceived as a threat to them, then they will carry on with their habits unaware of your presence.
This shot was taken with a 100-400mm IS lens on my D60, the bird hovered for possibly 15 to 20 seconds about 12-15 feet away allowing me to get about 25 images, all are quite stunning and I will post a page of them on my web site later, 1/250th-1/320th at f9.5 set on AV, underexposed by 1/2 stop and then brightened in photoshop, why? this means that the highlights do not burn out so I retain detail which would be lost if overexposed.
Nigel