Do You Ever Just Totally Blow It? I Did.....Missed BIF Opportunity
i wasn\'t sure where to put this \'vent\'..so i hope this is ok.
i\'m wondering if i am the only one who occasionally blows a shooting opportunity. i\'m a bit aggravated at myself after what happened yesterday, am trying to figure out what i\'ve just learned. here\'s the story...
so i was running out late yesterday afternoon to meet my daughter at the giants playoff game. i get outside, and as i always do, as i\'m walking to the car i look at the top of our neighbor\'s big trees. as some of you have seen from my wildlife photo posts, we occasionally have hawks and/or owls that hang out up there as these are the best local vantage points if you are a big, predator bird. anyway, on top was a really big red tailed hawk. so i run back inside and quickly grab my new d4 and strap the 500 on....and run back outside. i took a couple of shots and then the bird flies off...right overhead! and he/she proceeds to do a few low level laps above our neighborhood. what a great opportunity to get some good bif pix of this beautiful raptor! so i quickly snap off several shots and put the camera away. after the game (giants were wiped out), i come home and take a quick peek....and yuck!! i think i had the shutter set high enough, but i forgot to spot meter (difficult but pretty late day light against a bright blue sky), didn\'t have the camera on continuous focus, and i am still not quite up to speed on moving the focus point around on the d4 (i had it set on single point). so the pix were lousy even by my meager standards.
i was pretty bummed, but i guess i also will take a few lessons learned. i need to play with the d4 more, and i need to have some settings become more second nature, especially for wildlife as you just can\'t take the time to get all set up. probably need to have a \'wildlife\' shooting bank set up, maybe that would save some time. sometimes you have to \'point and shoot\' and i blew that yesterday.
Do You Ever Just Totally Blow It? I Did.....Missed BIF Opportunity
i wasn\'t sure where to put this \'vent\'..so i hope this is ok.
i\'m wondering if i am the only one who occasionally blows a shooting opportunity. i\'m a bit aggravated at myself after what happened yesterday, am trying to figure out what i\'ve just learned. here\'s the story...
so i was running out late yesterday afternoon to meet my daughter at the giants playoff game. i get outside, and as i always do, as i\'m walking to the car i look at the top of our neighbor\'s big trees. as some of you have seen, we occasionally have hawks and/or owls that hang out up there as these are the best local vantage points if you are a big, predator bird. anyway, on top was a really big red tailed hawk. so i run back inside and quickly grab my new d4 and strap the 500 on....and run back outside. i took a couple of shots and then the bird flies off...right overhead! and he/she proceeds to do a few low level laps above our neighborhood. what a great opportunity to get some good bif pix of this beautiful raptor! so i quickly snap off several shots and put the camera away. after the game (giants were wiped out), i come home and take a quick peek....and yuck!! i think i had the shutter set high enough, but i forgot to spot meter (difficult but pretty late day light against a bright blue sky), didn\'t have the camera on continuous focus, and i am still not quite up to speed on moving the focus point around on the d4 (i had it set on single point). so the pix were lousy even by my meager standards.
i was pretty bummed, but i guess i also will take a few lessons learned. i need to play with the d4 more, and i need to have some settings become more second nature, especially for wildlife as you just can\'t take the time to get all set up. probably need to have a \'wildlife\' shooting bank set up, maybe that would save some time. sometimes you have to \'point and shoot\' and i blew that yesterday.
Oct 08, 2012 at 09:17 AM
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