Three Great Blue Herons

Scott_Quier

After seeing Danial's GBH, thought I would offer up these that I have taken in the last 5 months or so...

These first two are the same bird. Hangs out in a local city park and is very socialized. Because of this, you can get quite close to them before they start alerting.

#1


#2


#3 This is a wild one at a city park, about 45 mintues from home. This was taken just before sunset (notice all the warm colors in bank-side?) and I think he was just a little too tired to really care about how close I got. As it was, I think I was about 50ft away.

Dee

50 feet?
Wouldn't help me with my 200mm! :

I think I need to go to florida and hide behind a concrete pipe to get my bird shots!

Very nice photos!

I see big white birds off the INTERSTATE highway sometimes... no place to stop of course. So they know they are safe!

You're lucky to have some "tame" ones in the park. I occasionally see some great blues and egrets at Golden Gate Park and they know they are safe! But I bet the minute someone put a foot in the lake, they'd take off.

Harryb

Good captures Scoot especially the first one. I would have stopped down my exposure on those shots. The white areas are kind of hot.

DanielB

Dee wrote:

Wouldn't help me with my 200mm! :

I think I need to go to florida and hide behind a concrete pipe to get my bird shots!

or go hide behind some cars. lol. mine were from about 15 feet away.:D

nice shots scott

Scott_Quier

Harryb wrote:

Good captures Scoot especially the first one. I would have stopped down my exposure on those shots. The white areas are kind of hot.

Thanks for the comment. I'm beginning to think that hot spots are a perennial problem that I'm going to have to overcome. In part, I have this fear that the images will be too dark. I'm hoping that experience will cure me of this problem.

System

I love #1-

any thought as to pp the bg?-

george

Harryb

Scott_Quier wrote:

Thanks for the comment. I'm beginning to think that hot spots are a perennial problem that I'm going to have to overcome. In part, I have this fear that the images will be too dark. I'm hoping that experience will cure me of this problem.

It takes practice. The GBH in th epark would be a great teaching subject since he's used to humans. Take a shot and chimp looking for blinkies. Keep adjusting your settings until you lose the blinkies.

Scott_Quier

Harryb wrote:

It takes practice. The GBH in th epark would be a great teaching subject since he's used to humans. Take a shot and chimp looking for blinkies. Keep adjusting your settings until you lose the blinkies.

Thanks for this comment/advise. I have a bunch of this fellow already and am adding to the collection all the time for just this sort of reason.

Chimping (where did that word come from anyway) for the blinkies - this I am fairly consistant about doing. I think the problem comes when I do the PP. My monitor is calibrated (Spyder 2), but I still don't quite trust what I'm seeing.