First shots with my new camera!!!

luckydogluckydog Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
edited November 3, 2005 in Wildlife
Well I finally made the step to the dizzy heights of DSLR-dom :clap :clap :clap

Took a detour on the way home from work this evening as I was itching to play with the camera and found a couple of Pelicans that had settled in the night. Don't have the reach I had with the C730....YET :wink , but I threw the
70-200 f/4L on and went to it. The lens is great and very very quick, I just need to learn how to drive the rotten thing better. These had levels tweaked a bit and a little sharpening done but comments appreciated (and needed)....BTW the shutter was up high as I thought they may spook and I'd be ready for a PIF shot.


Eye's not in focus :(
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18-55mm, 28-105mm USM II, 50mm f/1.8, 400mm f/5.6

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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2005
    Nice captures. I always like the Aussie pellis. They are very interesting. They almost don't look real. I'm thinking I'll have to take a vacation to Australia someday to shoot some of the wildlife. That would be awsome.thumb.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2005
    Hi, again, dog, love your Pelican photos!

    Congrats on the new camera. I have that lens. I am using it more than I used to. I have a 17-40L, the 70-200L F4, and the 400L. I have used the 70-200 least, but I have started using it more. I had issues with it at first, where as I loved the other two lenses immediately. I need an in between lens, I plan to get a macro at some point. I will have to price them. I have a 20D Canon, had a Rebel, changed everything last Feb, so I have been using these lenses for that amt of time. The thing I miss the most, and not often, is a macro, other than that (and I could always use a Looooonger lens), I think I have the perfect lens set up. What other lenses do you have?)

    Usually, always, I carry my backpack, often use all my lenses on a shoot, but yesterday just carried the camera w the 400 on it. I would not have been able to walk that far with the backpack et al. I often saw other things I would have loved to have the other lenses on for.

    I have no problem, if the light is right, keeping the shutter speed up, but I always have it on the wrong thing for flight/ or compose/recompose. Whatever I have it on the bird does the other.

    Also, setting the exposure for white birds (minus one at least), non white birds (normal or -a tad), and dark birds in the air above me (plus a tad). I never get that right! Especially yesterday! I would be trying to see a two inch bird that the birders were looking at, when a couple of dark ducks would fly by: oh the disappointments. But one wall hanger and some nice look ats, plus the memory of gorgeous weather: you are right, that should be worth it all. If I didn't have such arthritis and bad feet I would go twice a week, but I just can't. I am so sore right now. Super sore!

    You know I will be 66 in a few weeks, and I am out there, not like some others, but I get to do my little hikes at least once a month and other stuff in between. Whereas my 44 year old son is in the hospital with heart problems? not genetic. (I am scared for him! And I feel fortunate for me. Or I should.)

    I love those white pelicans, you did a good job, and you will LOVE your camera!

    Thanks again for your post to me!

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2005
    excellent 1st post with your new camera
    Congrats on both counts thumb.gif
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