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The Heron Strikes!
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Christopher Campbell (cjcampbell)
![Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 32 W: 0 N: 66]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/s-n-g.gif) (308) |
| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-02-29 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Camera: Nikon D300, AF-S VR Nikkor 400 mm f/2.8 G ED |
| Exposure: f/14.0, 1/800 seconds |
| Details: Tripod: Yes (Fill) Flash: Yes |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-03-01 9:18 |
| Viewed: 678 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Okay, not a serious photo; this one was practice. I was mainly interested in seeing how much I could reasonably stop the action of a fishing Great Blue Heron. He was being unusually tolerant of me, but unfortunately a little too backlit for my taste -- no light in the eyes, either. But I think I got him stopped pretty good. The next frame shows him with the fish, but the fish is too tiny to be a major element in the picture. It is smaller than the heron's eye, so it looks like he grabbed a pea or something.
This bird is very skittish and normally he flies off when the camera appears. But this time he was concentrating too much on his fishing. I was also being more careful, camouflaging the lens and keeping the viewfinder covered when not looking through the camera, minimizing the "great blinking eye" effect of the 400mm lens. I used a TCE II 1.7x teleconverter as well. I have cropped out excess weeds at the bottom of the picture.
Fill flash was provided by a Better Beamer. |
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- Bass
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 116 W: 0 N: 128]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-n-g.gif)
(508) - [2008-03-31 11:30]
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Hi Christopher,
let me say that or this Heron didnīt see you or you are the master of camouflage! You seem to be very close!!!
Although i like natural colours, this time i think that maybe the Heron needs a little more of light would be great, just to see better the feathers. Anyway, the shot is really good: POV, DOF and the moment you have captured!
have a nice day
TFS
Brenda
