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jamach
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p.1 #1 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

Went looking for eagles but they must have left since the daffodils came up. But there were Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans plenty, here are some. It seems it was a great day for fishing! Comments welcome.

D300, 70-300vr Nikkor, D2x ColorMode2, ISO 400
picture selection by View NX and processing by NX, filtration by NIK

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Mar 22, 2008 at 02:28 PM

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p.1 #2 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

Some great shots here jamach, but the #1 takes the cake for me. Very cool...

Mar 22, 2008 at 03:11 PM

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p.1 #3 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

I like the spacing of the herons in the first shot, you must give great directions!

Tim

Mar 22, 2008 at 03:14 PM

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p.1 #4 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

All good, but I like #1, too. Two very different approaches to the same problem. How to catch a fish!

Frank

Mar 22, 2008 at 03:20 PM

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p.1 #5 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

Number 1 is very amusing with the spacing & the "different" fishermen.

Which f/stop did you shoot these at? And which pp'ing program did you use for these shots?

Looks like you had a nice selection of birds to shoot that day. I like # 6 & 11

Lil

Mar 22, 2008 at 07:13 PM

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p.1 #6 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

Thank you all for the kind comments, the 70-300vr only goes out so far and the cropping allows only so much leeway. But I got lucky in that the birds came by close enough to where the 300 end actually delivered some shots.

The picture selection was by Nikon View NX and processing by Nikon Capture NX, filtration by NIK

I left the exif information so it is accessible with tools in the browser such as Opanda. The fstop was 5.6 for #1.

Thanks very much again,

- Joe

Mar 22, 2008 at 08:30 PM

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p.1 #7 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

Great series. Like the action in #11. How is the AF in d300 working for you.
harsha

Mar 23, 2008 at 12:38 AM

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p.1 #8 · Herons, Egrets, and Pelicans

Thanks Harsha, the AF works very well, for the birds in open areas I use the 3d tracking and it incerases my workflow with more pictures to process. One good thing about the 3d tracking is that I just point th eviewfinder at the bird and teh camera finds it fast and focuses. It also tracks real well. Those flying birds were going by at a good clip and the wind was very gusty so they were moving fast at times.

With one of the 400-600 AFS vr lenses I can only imagine that the perfromance would be incredible.

- Joe

Mar 23, 2008 at 03:31 PM


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