Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Focal Length: 400.0mm
Exposure Time: 0.0001 s (1/8000)
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO equiv: 800
Exposure Bias: 0.67
White Balance: Auto
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
PetKal wrote:
Today I shot something I could live with.
A duck caught in a sunlight beam under the bridge.
That's one happy duck. Been away from this thread for a while due to going overseas (didn't bring the 400, just the 24-105), so have some catching up to do!
I need some bird ID... not a good shot (middle of day) but would like to know what it is. I am guessing laughing gull?
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Focal Length: 400.0mm
Exposure Time: 0.0001 s (1/8000)
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO equiv: 800
Exposure Bias: 0.67
White Balance: Auto
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
Hey Arun! Looks pretty good. Now you just have to get up a bit closer!
pingflood wrote:
That's one happy duck. Been away from this thread for a while due to going overseas (didn't bring the 400, just the 24-105), so have some catching up to do!
I need some bird ID... not a good shot (middle of day) but would like to know what it is. I am guessing laughing gull?
Conrad Tan wrote:
Hey Arun! Looks pretty good. Now you just have to get up a bit closer!
Conrad....you seem to be spending too much time on the N&W Board perhaps
I feel the Arun's image concept works very well the way it is.
This kind of a close up duck capture is yet another concept, obviously a very different one. Shot with the 70-200 f/2.8 IS zoom. Which also goes to show that "getting closer" to airborne birds, or buying a 1200mm lens, is not the only way. Gotta position yourself on/near their flight path.
Conrad Tan wrote:
Hey Arun! Looks pretty good. Now you just have to get up a bit closer!
Thanks, Conrad! I don't know how y'all do it, the birds I find are all pretty sedentary. That morning there was a white swan determinedly asleep with its head tucked under its wing some fifteen feet away, refusing to wake up and provide some action.
Is this a cormorant? Damn thing went underwater for a LOOOONG time while I was watching it. No wonder I always see them sitting on the side of the lagoons trying to dry out!
Is this a cormorant? Damn thing went underwater for a LOOOONG time while I was watching it. No wonder I always see them sitting on the side of the lagoons trying to dry out!
Ping, I think that's an Anhinga, well photographed too.
Looks like you are from Florida or somewhere around the Gulf coast.
The gulls look like Laughing ones, however, I can not readily tell them from Bonapartes because neither are native to Ontario so I don't see them often at all.
I think Conrad has taken a repreive after he has pulverized the competition and reached the apex of bird photography with his eagles.
You are right, it does look like an Anhinga. Once I realized Cormorants have different beaks I googled "cormorant pointed beak" and it popped up.
I'm on Hilton Head Island, pretty far down on the South Carolina coast. These guys tend to not cooperate when it comes to pictures (they like to sit in the bright glaring sun most of the time), so got lucky with this one...
Before I push the button to order a Jobu Junior gimbal mount, any reason not to? I will most likely only ever use it with the 400 and TC and just want something decently stable for when the light's low and I'm shooting mostly static stuff. Seems like a hell of a deal for $249, and I suppose that it'd work OK with a 500/4 should the gods ever smile upon me... I do have a good tripod (Slik Pro 700DX -- nothing at all like the low end Slik stuff, their Pro line is decent stuff) with a ballhead (not the right plate for using the Sidekick however...) that I was going to use with it.
OK, $249 + the lens foot plate, but still not bad...
I can hand hold the 400+1.4x as low as 1/160 at times (for static stuff) but below that it pretty much doesn't pan out. Sometimes the light is too low even for those speeds and I don't want to go to ISO 1600....
edit: ended up doing some more research and ordered a Bogen 393. $179 + shipping and has gotten a lot of favorable reviews.
Been away from this thread for a while due to going overseas (didn't bring the 400, just the 24-105), so have some catching up to do!
