Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Want to pump this thread to 100 posts []. Here's something I posted a while ago. I went out one early morning to photograph Osprey fishing for trout, instead I stumbled across this Great Blue Heronswallowing a trout. It took him a long time toget it down.


Canon 40D, 400 f/5.6L, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 3200, Noise Ninja.


Larger version http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8486619&size=lg


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[Bill W]

EdN;


Thanks for the compliment on my pics....and I understand the difficulty; over 200 hundred shots at the rookery. I was hoping for a couple that had more feather details, e.g. yours and Sinh Nhut's pic. The GBHs put on a great display in spring.


Re manual focus; I tried 5x live view MF, but that's a tough trick w/the monopod. When do you think Canon will come out IS for live view? []


Jon;


Glad you liked the pics...thank you. Actually, I'm actually trying to talk myself into the 500 plus 1.4x....if I can preserve my marital bliss, I'll start saving my money. []


George S;


You're correct about the pics....take it when you can get it even if it's less than perfect. 1.4x on the 100-400IS....hmmm, hadn't thought of it.


Sinh Nhut Nguyen;


What was your approximate distance from your GBH?


Thanks again folks for your input...


Bill

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Hi Bill, I was about 20 ft from the GBH. I bet I could come andcatch that bird, he was so into swallowing the fish that he ignored everything around him!

[kwc]

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[kwc]

Hmmm...maybe I'd better figure out how to upload pictures without having half the photo cropped out...

[EdN]

I did the same thing as you before I learned what works. Crop or resize your image so it is 800 pixels wide at the maximum. Fits perfectly and displays perfectly.


Regards

[Dave Metcalf]

Here are some shots from last summer on a small lake near Traverse
City, Michigan. All were taken with a EOS 30D, with an EF 100-400
f/4.5-5.6 L IS lens (rented from Lens Rentals -- who have given me
great service by the way -- can't recommend them high enough).


Enjoy


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Loons adult and immatures -- 400mm, f/7.1, 1/400 sec This image has been photoshopped a bit to tone down the green reflection from the woods along the lake shore.





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Great Blue -- taken from a kayak (hope the folks from Lens Rentals aren't reading this!) 400 mm, f/7.1, 1/400 sec





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Immature Bald Eagle 275 mm, f/8, 1/500 sec





Let me know what you think. I've been a serious amateur for a while -- and having a blast.

[kwc]

Thanks for your help, EdN. Very much appreciated!

[George Slusher]

For Dave Metcalf:


I can't give a technical critique. I just wish that I had taken them!


Looks like you may have used the 100-400mm zoom.

[Garrett-Grimsley]

Took this in my backyard yesterday, first nice, bright blue sky in a long while. Glad spring is coming. [H]