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Sunday morning I visited the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area on Long Island, New York. I walked all of the trails on the park and it was a very quiet day. I did take some flower and insect photos before calling it quits for the day. I packed my gear into the car and was about to depart when I spotted this great egret on the top of a sign. I decided to have some fun so I mounted my 800mm mirror lens on my camera and set up my tripod to support it. I then moved it as close as I could and discovered I was too close and had to back up to focus. He was watching me and I moved to get directly in front of him. When I got home I discovered he blinked when I was directly in front.

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All: D200 + 800mm cat @ ISO 400, 1/1600, f8, fill flash (SB910)

Processing started in ACR with adjustments to contrast, saturation, and vibrance. Then I moved to Photoshop made a duplicate layer, applied a small liner burn, flattened and then adjusted levels and curves. Last I sharpened each image.

I had a ball taking these photos and spent about an hour working this tricky subject. From 4 feet there was not a lot of DOF to work with as I manually focused this powerful lens. I’ll be posting more from this shoot in the future.

Comments and suggestions welcome,

Morris



Sep 18, 2013 at 07:19 PM
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Dang, I wish my 800 had a 4 foot mfd. It's 20 feet. Nice eyeball shots.


Sep 18, 2013 at 07:26 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · He Blinked!


Were you using your cloak of invisibility again Morris? Four feet...that's crazy talk!
Eric



Sep 18, 2013 at 07:45 PM
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Excellent job getting and keeping the eyes in focus Morris

Tim



Sep 18, 2013 at 08:35 PM
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A great job o these Morris. All the eyes, or lids, ( ), are tack sharp ~ Ron


Sep 19, 2013 at 06:15 AM
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Fantastic Morris!!

Birdie



Sep 19, 2013 at 08:14 AM
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excellent close-ups Morris


Sep 19, 2013 at 10:15 AM
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can't get any closer than these! sweet!


Sep 20, 2013 at 06:30 PM
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Wow! Great stuff.
And views most of us have never seen- even in pictures.
That lens at that distance- with a dof of what? less than one inch?
Nice work, Morris.
Charlie



Sep 20, 2013 at 08:16 PM
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Herb Houghton wrote:
Dang, I wish my 800 had a 4 foot mfd. It's 20 feet. Nice eyeball shots.


Thank you Herb,

I looked it up and it's 5.7 feet MFD, still very close

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:09 AM
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eyelaser wrote:
Were you using your cloak of invisibility again Morris? Four feet...that's crazy talk!
Eric


Thank you Eric,

I believe I did get to 4 feet, the photos are from MFD of 5.7 feet

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:10 AM
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Tim Kuhn wrote:
Excellent job getting and keeping the eyes in focus Morris

Tim


Thank you Tim

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:10 AM
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surfnron wrote:
A great job o these Morris. All the eyes, or lids, ( ), are tack sharp ~ Ron


Thank you Ron,

I'm glad that I remembered how to turn the focus ring :-}

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:11 AM
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birdied wrote:
Fantastic Morris!!

Birdie


Thank you Roberta

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:11 AM
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kmunroe wrote:
excellent close-ups Morris


Thank you Kenny

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:11 AM
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Thang wrote:
can't get any closer than these! sweet!


Oh, I could use a tube :-}

Thank you Thang

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:12 AM
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Charlie Shugart wrote:
Wow! Great stuff.
And views most of us have never seen- even in pictures.
That lens at that distance- with a dof of what? less than one inch?
Nice work, Morris.
Charlie


Thank you Charlie,

I feel DOF at that distance is about 1/2 inch or less. Just brutal when focusing on a moving subject. One must work fast.

Morris



Sep 21, 2013 at 09:13 AM
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You sure worked your way close to your subject Morris! A nice set of images resulted.


Sep 22, 2013 at 08:17 AM
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. Super sequence Morris.
David



Sep 22, 2013 at 10:14 AM





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