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[Joel Eade]

Great Egret, Lake Wateree, SC

1DX
500mm + 1.4 TC II
Manual, no flash
ISO 3200
f/5.6
1/800

[Joel Eade]

Really nice raptors....the first one is my fav...Golden Eagle's are so impressive.

[M_Six]

Great shots, Joel. That camera/lens/TC combo looks awesome. I'd love to have that reach coupled with that AF system.

[conropl]

I ran across a couple of eagles, but I kind of screwed up the exposure. I used a 100-400mm L with a 1.4X II on a FF - so I set the aperture to f/8, but I must have bumped the dial and ended up at f/11. Which caused my shutter speed to be 1/2 of what I wanted.
Cropped heavily, this is what I ended up with:


Bald Eagle -2967 by westmichigan, on Flickr


Bald Eagle -3162 by westmichigan, on Flickr


Bald Eagle -3143 by westmichigan, on Flickr

[Mark Elberson]

I'd say it still worked out well :-)

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[M_Six]

Second pic is money. Very nice.

[Joel Eade]

Great shots Pat!

[conropl]

Mark, Mark & Joel - Thanks.

There were lots of ducks here also (thousands), but they were very skittish with the eagles, hawks, and falcons around (they eat a lot of ducks). As a result, I was not able to get any decent close shots of ducks (which is why I went here). So I was very happy to be able to get the eagles (I'll take an eagle over a duck any day). I would not have been able to get these with my 7D - even with the crop sensor. I had the ISO at 1250 and the focus is so good on the 1D X, that it can handle the cropping. Plus the extra FPS rate really helps.

Again... thanks.

Pat

[M_Six]

...cause every little thing gonna be alright...

[Jayson]

Mark, three's company right???

Pat, those Eagles are great! Agree the second is superb!

Joel, lovely Egret and Heron.