The Herons don’t have that blue colored lore yet, but it’s definitely mating season. When not flying around with sticks they leaned back and gave that long hoarse call.
Great Blue Heron, In A Rookery
The Herons don’t have that blue colored lore yet, but it’s definitely mating season. When not flying around with sticks they leaned back and gave that long hoarse call.
Stunning
Thanks. They usually stop by this old Cypress Tree when working in swamp.
They sit in my yard I love them.
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Wow! Love this shot! 😍📸
Thank you. We live near a rookery. Each spring/summer is a constant parade of swamp critters.
Nailed it again Ted! Great capture! 📸
😁😁, thanks. This was taken with my usual OM 100-400 II lens. I have switched back to my Leica 100-400 yesterday, my wife’s OM is in the shop. In use my two lenses are very different. I need to practice a little, we are heading out for a shoot in Florida and breeding season is in full swing there.
Your images are always shape, what sort of aperture would you use for long distance sharp focus? 🙂
If shooting wildlife I let the camera select, I work with shutter speed and exp comp for the most part. Anything else I watch my meter and adjust as needed. So no specific f stops for the most part. Not very scientific but it works.
For post, which for me is important and fun, I use all types of apps. Lightroom is still the starting point. Then it could be Topaz DeNoise, ON1, DxO SilverEfex, DxO Filmpack…much stuff 😄 but not all at once LOL
Actually that makes sense. To be fair I always use manual until I shoot triathlon and that sort of thing then it just goes onto auto if a bright day because works well and things go by at different speeds / light changes often so no time to mess around 😆🤣😆🤣 just wondered what shooting your nature stuff was like!
Same concept. Shooting a flying Heron means we pan with the bird, through dark swamp, then bright sun from above, back to dark…. You get the idea 😁. Long time pros come to shoot here and have a hard time not using a fixed setting. After a while, when they have no results, they get it.
People say ‘it’s all about the photographer’ haven’t shot in the wild. For many years we used Canon 7D2’s, 4 of them. One had over 600,000 clicks. OM Systems is all about nature, now we use them, and old Canon work horse if needed. When it’s 100 degrees plus in a swamp the gear matters LOL.
SHARP*** I mean, sorry typing 2 coffees deep but still with one eye open 🥱🤣
LOL, I have only had my first cup and never noticed. 😂
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