GAVE UP ON THE SURFERS and did get my first pelican [have tried a lot just never there at the right time ] this way to far to be good and both at sunset
GAVE UP ON THE SURFERS and did get my first pelican [have tried a lot just never there at the right time ] this way to far to be good and both at sunset
Harry http://behret.smugmug.com/NANPA member How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
thanks Ben and Harry but I know the pelican is it is my frist chance to get one and i had no chance to set up ,then i looked and chipped away shots and shot the moon in dif settings just for fun and look up here come his whole family and the boys next door and his his school class .Point and shoot and shoot stop and think what setting did you last have 20 shots of a flashing white screen :cry :cry :cry from happy happpy to -- it's a family site cry
Hey jeff...nice catch. It wasnt until i had a bird lens that i realised just how hard it is to get them in flight like that.
Some may notice (i recon harry & steve are awake to me) that im yet to post a BIF from back home here. Its because it aint as easy as i thought....ive got a lot of bad ones !
All that setting up on a tripod or tempery rest can go straight out the window & you have to do it all looking straight up (a lot of the time) in a second or 2 without falling over backwards on your arse.
i dig the seagull! were you panning? or did you prefocus somewhere?
i'm shooting bolsa chica tomorrow am...any tips?
jeff
Jeff I am sorry did not see this post until just now I was at bolsa on sunday also and would have loved to show you the place . fuuny thing you and i at bolsa and ben and i at the marsh in the afternoon 3 dgrinners same palce same time and no meeting :cry I pm'ed you sorry i did not see this sooner maybe next time i go there a lot now
Hey jeff...nice catch. It wasnt until i had a bird lens that i realised just how hard it is to get them in flight like that.
Some may notice (i recon harry & steve are awake to me) that im yet to post a BIF from back home here. Its because it aint as easy as i thought....ive got a lot of bad ones !
All that setting up on a tripod or tempery rest can go straight out the window & you have to do it all looking straight up (a lot of the time) in a second or 2 without falling over backwards on your arse.
I now appreciate what youve got there mate.
Gus
well welcome to nature and all the frustration don't let the moss grow on that lens mate ,get to shooting no tripod just point and shoot and pray any tips you need ask harry I think the average is one good one to 100 bad ones then it goes to 1 good one for ever 300 ect ect ect thanks Gus for the kind words and it ain't easy no matter how Harry and the Hawkman made it look i sent you a pm ref: camera
Jeff I am sorry did not see this post until just now I was at bolsa on sunday also and would have loved to show you the place . fuuny thing you and i at bolsa and ben and i at the marsh in the afternoon 3 dgrinners same palce same time and no meeting :cry I pm'ed you sorry i did not see this sooner maybe next time i go there a lot now
no worries, i posted that late on sat night.
us LA folks need to be more organized even if i saw you there i wouldnt recognize ya. youre a nikon shooter right?
there was some guy over where i was with a canon 20d around his neck attached to a howitzer of a white lens. i didnt see him shoot a single thing...just kept looking through his binoculars. i was looking at him to see if he was one of the usual suspects.
i was wondering if it was a dominance thing where the alpha shooter with the huge lens walks through the crowd and the rest of us dudes with the 200mm have to bow our heads.
anyways, i tanked most of my shots. my head is swimming from studying for my boards and i used too much - ev comp on my shots. the night before i told myself to use -2/3 for egrets like andy and steve said...when i got there i smartly dialed in - 2 STOPS. turns out this makes yur pics real noisey when you try and lighten them up. since then i've pulled my head out and am ready to try again this weekend-- if i can sneak away and my new lens arrives!
us LA folks need to be more organized even if i saw you there i wouldnt recognize ya. youre a nikon shooter right?
there was some guy over where i was with a canon 20d around his neck attached to a howitzer of a white lens. i didnt see him shoot a single thing...just kept looking through his binoculars. i was looking at him to see if he was one of the usual suspects.
i was wondering if it was a dominance thing where the alpha shooter with the huge lens walks through the crowd and the rest of us dudes with the 200mm have to bow our heads.
anyways, i tanked most of my shots. my head is swimming from studying for my boards and i used too much - ev comp on my shots. the night before i told myself to use -2/3 for egrets like andy and steve said...when i got there i smartly dialed in - 2 STOPS. turns out this makes yur pics real noisey when you try and lighten them up. since then i've pulled my head out and am ready to try again this weekend-- if i can sneak away and my new lens arrives!
j
if you are going sunday in the early am I will come down and meet you with my little nikon the white lens guys are not very nice always --well they just are --- let me know
Hang in there Jeff, it does get better. BIF's are real tough (or you have to be real lucky ) These shots aren't bad at all
The more you shoot BIFs the better your panning skills will become. Your seagull looks pretty good though As for the pelican, you'll get better at setting up your camera with more experience too I don't know what others do, but I usually make the choice first. I choose to set the camera up for shooting birds against the sky, or I set up for birds in trees or on the ground. This keeps me from constantly changing settings and lets me concentrate more on the shot.
For birds against the bright sky, I normally add at least +1 EV comp. It can blow out the sky, but you will better capture that underwing detail. It also depends on the lighting you are working with. So this isn't etched in stone. But, you should give it a try next time you are out BIFing :
Hang in there Jeff, it does get better. BIF's are real tough (or you have to be real lucky ) These shots aren't bad at all
The more you shoot BIFs the better your panning skills will become. Your seagull looks pretty good though As for the pelican, you'll get better at setting up your camera with more experience too I don't know what others do, but I usually make the choice first. I choose to set the camera up for shooting birds against the sky, or I set up for birds in trees or on the ground. This keeps me from constantly changing settings and lets me concentrate more on the shot.
For birds against the bright sky, I normally add at least +1 EV comp. It can blow out the sky, but you will better capture that underwing detail. It also depends on the lighting you are working with. So this isn't etched in stone. But, you should give it a try next time you are out BIFing :
Nice shots,
Steve
thanks Steve and great advice for me as well as anyone that reads this post i do change setting and shoot this and that and that cost me .this was one fly by out of nowhere ,first pelican i have seen in this spot , was waiting for the sun to go down and messing with the camera .and like i said in the above post a flock flew by and every shot was so Steve's advice is as solid as they come dial in the camera and shot one thing .the pic of the gull was lots better ,I was set up and shooting only flybys so a very good example of what steve said
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i dig the seagull! were you panning? or did you prefocus somewhere?
i'm shooting bolsa chica tomorrow am...any tips?
jeff
Some may notice (i recon harry & steve are awake to me) that im yet to post a BIF from back home here. Its because it aint as easy as i thought....ive got a lot of bad ones !
All that setting up on a tripod or tempery rest can go straight out the window & you have to do it all looking straight up (a lot of the time) in a second or 2 without falling over backwards on your arse.
I now appreciate what youve got there mate.
Gus
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us LA folks need to be more organized
there was some guy over where i was with a canon 20d around his neck attached to a howitzer of a white lens. i didnt see him shoot a single thing...just kept looking through his binoculars. i was looking at him to see if he was one of the usual suspects.
i was wondering if it was a dominance thing where the alpha shooter with the huge lens walks through the crowd and the rest of us dudes with the 200mm have to bow our heads.
anyways, i tanked most of my shots. my head is swimming from studying for my boards and i used too much - ev comp on my shots. the night before i told myself to use -2/3 for egrets like andy and steve said...when i got there i smartly dialed in - 2 STOPS
j
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The more you shoot BIFs the better your panning skills will become. Your seagull looks pretty good though
For birds against the bright sky, I normally add at least +1 EV comp. It can blow out the sky, but you will better capture that underwing detail. It also depends on the lighting you are working with. So this isn't etched in stone. But, you should give it a try next time you are out BIFing
Nice shots,
Steve
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