NH Juve BIF

bfjr

JeffW and I took a little walkabout. It was looking pretty poor till we found where he was hiding. I'm going to start putting my data with piccies soon as I figured out how.
In the meantime:
D2hs Matrix meter -0.6 to still working on this
300mm
shutter priority
ISI 320
f6.7
1/500

at 1st he squaked at us



then he almost fell of his perch



Then he took flight :clap
#1


#2


#3


by the way did I mention this camera rocks!!

jwear

boy lots better than i thought and mine on the other hand were blown out that i do not get .well another day and another card .these came out great and with the 70/300 lens too

4labs

Great set Ben..I see you are figuring things out very quickly...

Angelo

Ben - these are great. Beautiful, sharp and colorful

ginger_55

Nice shots, Ben! Those West Coast Herons, some different looking birds from our kind..................or the other day there was one like ours. He is a juvenile. I have a kind of bad shot of a very small NH here, it is so small I just knew it had to be a baby. The coloring was the same as the adult, though.

I did work it up, but the shot is only interesting in ID a bird, and I am not sure that the perspective is the same as "being there", with the other birds to compare it to. The adult was there but not close.

Love the flight shots, too. I am working on those.

Jeff, how do you like his camera? Is it THAT different? I shoot with a 300 Prime lens and an extender. I read last night that I should have bought a 400 Prime instead. I don't have the means right now, and I won't for a long time.

Also, the man who wrote the book I am reading, a library book, but I am going to buy one.............when I have to return this one. Anyway, he shoots birds with a 600, mostly. He, of course, has many different lenses. His name is Moose Peterson. I also think he has a web site: can't find it in the bk rt now, but he does. I need to bookmark it.

I am drooling over the new equipment on this forum: Harry's and yours. They say it is the photographer, not the equipment, but without certain equipment some things just aren't going to happen. (Now, no camera at all, that would be really bad, , have to count my blessings here, before I lose them, or something)

Have to catch up on both your latest posts, then figure out how to fix the fact that I am bumping my post below all of yours.

ginger

Harryb

ginger_55 wrote:

Nice shots, Ben! Those West Coast Herons, some different looking birds from our kind..................or the other day there was one like ours. He is a juvenile. I have a kind of bad shot of a very small NH here, it is so small I just knew it had to be a baby. The coloring was the same as the adult, though.

I did work it up, but the shot is only interesting in ID a bird, and I am not sure that the perspective is the same as "being there", with the other birds to compare it to. The adult was there but not close.

Love the flight shots, too. I am working on those.

Jeff, how do you like his camera? Is it THAT different? I shoot with a 300 Prime lens and an extender. I read last night that I should have bought a 400 Prime instead. I don't have the means right now, and I won't for a long time.

Also, the man who wrote the book I am reading, a library book, but I am going to buy one.............when I have to return this one. Anyway, he shoots birds with a 600, mostly. He, of course, has many different lenses. His name is Moose Peterson. I also think he has a web site: can't find it in the bk rt now, but he does. I need to bookmark it.

I am drooling over the new equipment on this forum: Harry's and yours. They say it is the photographer, not the equipment, but without certain equipment some things just aren't going to happen. (Now, no camera at all, that would be really bad, , have to count my blessings here, before I lose them, or something)

Have to catch up on both your latest posts, then figure out how to fix the fact that I am bumping my post below all of yours.

ginger

Hey Ginger,

Here's the link to Moose's homepage

http://www.moosepeterson.com/home.html

Harryb

Excellent series Ben. you only missed the now mandatory butt shot.

bfjr

jwear wrote:

boy lots better than i thought and mine on the other hand were blown out that i do not get .well another day and another card .these came out great and with the 70/300 lens too

Thanks Jeff
But please the next time I asked to throw the STUFFED NH try to throw farther............ Harry wants to see a butt shot

bfjr

4labs wrote:

Great set Ben..I see you are figuring things out very quickly...

Hi Eric
With a little help from my freinds, I hope so

Khaos

Nice set Ben. The BIFs turned out real nice.

bfjr

Angelo wrote:

Ben - these are great. Beautiful, sharp and colorful

Thanks Angelo glad you like

bfjr

ginger_55 wrote:

Nice shots, Ben! Those West Coast Herons, some different looking birds from our kind..................or the other day there was one like ours. He is a juvenile. I have a kind of bad shot of a very small NH here, it is so small I just knew it had to be a baby. The coloring was the same as the adult, though.

I did work it up, but the shot is only interesting in ID a bird, and I am not sure that the perspective is the same as "being there", with the other birds to compare it to. The adult was there but not close.

Love the flight shots, too. I am working on those.

Jeff, how do you like his camera? Is it THAT different? I shoot with a 300 Prime lens and an extender. I read last night that I should have bought a 400 Prime instead. I don't have the means right now, and I won't for a long time.

Also, the man who wrote the book I am reading, a library book, but I am going to buy one.............when I have to return this one. Anyway, he shoots birds with a 600, mostly. He, of course, has many different lenses. His name is Moose Peterson. I also think he has a web site: can't find it in the bk rt now, but he does. I need to bookmark it.

I am drooling over the new equipment on this forum: Harry's and yours. They say it is the photographer, not the equipment, but without certain equipment some things just aren't going to happen. (Now, no camera at all, that would be really bad, , have to count my blessings here, before I lose them, or something)

Have to catch up on both your latest posts, then figure out how to fix the fact that I am bumping my post below all of yours.

ginger

well I'm glad to see you here and see that Harry answered your questions, cause I got lost

Have to catch up on both your latest posts, then figure out how to fix the fact that I am bumping my post below all of yours.

Isn't that the way it's suppose to be

bfjr

Harryb wrote:

Excellent series Ben. you only missed the now mandatory butt shot.

Yeah I know, and I had a butt shot going on too. But to tell ya the truth I got so startled by the Machine Gun I took my finger off the trigger to soon

bfjr

Khaos wrote:

Nice set Ben. The BIFs turned out real nice.

Hi Khaos
Thank you.
Finally got some gear that will bring home the goods, well if I do my job

jeff lapoint

ben,

good to see you taming the beast! the perch shot and the second flight shot are wonderful IMO. learning curve my ...

bfjr

jeff lapoint wrote:

ben,

good to see you taming the beast! the perch shot and the second flight shot are wonderful IMO. learning curve my ...

Hi ya DocJeff
Glad you enjoyed.
You gonna post our mugs, might have an Ace or two up my sleeve