10 Sunday snaps

Dick on Aruba

Sunday in particular is my day to go around with my cameras and enjoy my hobby and freedom. (Do not take your freedom for granted!)

I hope you enjoy the captures as much as I do.

I was not even an hour on my photo-trip and I spotted a Yellow Oriole. He stayed long enough to snap two pictures. My day could not go wrong anymore:

# 1: Yellow Oriole
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# 2: Yellow Oriole
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I’m still training to get some decent shots of flying birds. It’s something I have to get custom to with my heavy D200 and 80-400mm VR. Here two shots:

# 3 Royal Tern
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# 4 Royal Tern.
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While Aruba is drying up because of the temporary low sea level and the lack of rain, the Snowy Egrets are more concentrated in small pawns:

# 5 Snowy Egrets.
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One of the nicest things from photography is to be able to concentrate scenes or subjects into frames and pull attention from the viewer. This time I choose to frame some small flowers and a fruit:

# 6 Large: http://arubaphoto.smugmug.com/photos/63683696-O.jpg




# 7 Large: http://arubaphoto.smugmug.com/photos/63683938-O.jpg;




# 8 Large: http://arubaphoto.smugmug.com/photos/63683853-O.jpg;




No shooting-session is complete without a Blue Heron:

# 9 Blue Heron.
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To slap you face with a completely other “bird”, here a panning test shot. Just fooling around with my new 18-200mm VR:

# 10 Airplane Landing.
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Is photography not a great hobby?

Dick.

Jeffro

D200-D70 wrote:

Sunday in particular is my day to go around with my cameras and enjoy my hobby and freedom. (Do not take your freedom for granted!)

I hope you enjoy the captures as much as I do.


Is photography not a great hobby?

Dick.

I see nothing but red x's again.....is that a Nikon thing?

okay...that's better! Very nice shots...looks like a great day. That last one is a VERY BIG bird.

Rohirrim

Nice series Dick. I couldn't agree more about photography being a great hobby. I'm also having a blast

Scott_Quier

I too am in training to get better BIF shots. I like what you've done with the second one - the OOF highlights look like glittering diamons on the water and the birds look nice.

Then there's that awesome last bird. Wow

What seems to be working for me so far (and there are probably better techniques out there) is to set the camera to AI Servo focus and burst exposure. Then, mash the shutter button down when it looks like there might be something in the viewfinder and hope you get something before the buffer fills up. Oh, and tracking, like you're hunting with a rifle seems to help too. But, as you can see if you look at some of my posts, I'm just a very rank amateur at this and all the above might be nothing more than a waste of bits.

Dick on Aruba

Jeffro wrote:

I see nothing but red x's again.....is that a Nikon thing?

okay...that's better! Very nice shots...looks like a great day. That last one is a VERY BIG bird.

Thanks Jeff.

Dick on Aruba

Rohirrim wrote:

Nice series Dick. I couldn't agree more about photography being a great hobby. I'm also having a blast

I peeked at your galleries and can clearly see the "blast" you have.

Dick.

Dick on Aruba

Scott_Quier wrote:

I...What seems to be working for me so far (and there are probably better techniques out there) is to set the camera to AI Servo focus and burst exposure....

Thank for looking at my pics.

I peeked at your galleries and discover some nice BIF pics, however I can not find myself in your technique. I noticed that panning will work better for me and the more I do it, the better it goed. I still have to go a long way. A large Aperture will also help to get a decent sharp shot. The key for me is practice.

Dick.

jwear

lots of fun and better than golf good shooting

Osprey Whisperer

Well done, Dick. I'm not sure about that last bird. Looking a bit tail heavy.

Harryb

Good series Dick.

Dick on Aruba

Thanks guys for looking and commenting.

Dick.