Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Brant and Joel:
Joel:
You are correct, the second one was in the early morning shade. So it was a more evenly lit. Unfortunatley, that meant the shutter speed was pretty slow. He kept grabbing one fish after another, but with a slow shutter I could not get a good shot (shot w/o motion blur) with a fish in his mouth. I got several, but he was moving to much.

I understand your dilemma....with a bird fishing right in front of me I would have had to try pushing the ISO way up to get enough shutter speed ... might not have worked in terms of getting too much noise but I am finding that for internet presentation and even small prints (4 X 6 ) I can get decent results even with ISO 0f 6400 as long as I am not underexposing. Some fill flash can help get you a little more shutter speed too but might be unweildy using a better beamer from a kayak