This wasn't supposed to work...
Jul 19, 2020 18:27:37 #
Around dusk my wife noticed something larger than normal fly into our backyard, and soon we located this owl in a tree. I grabbed my camera with little hope of results.
I was shooting with my old Canon XSi with the kit zoom wide open, max zoom. That's 250mm and f/5.6, ISO 1600 hand held at dusk. I could barely see it through the viewfinder, and could hear that the shutter speed was really slow, 1/6 second when I looked at the exif data. Recipe for disappointment, right?
I shot several dozen frames at my wife's request, expecting a lot of blurry and out of focus images. But I was surprised to see to that three turned out almost useable. What's posted here is cropped a bit, with a little Lightroom fiddling thrown in.
So I guess the lesson here is that even if all the rules say it shouldn't work, try enough times and maybe you'll get lucky.
I was shooting with my old Canon XSi with the kit zoom wide open, max zoom. That's 250mm and f/5.6, ISO 1600 hand held at dusk. I could barely see it through the viewfinder, and could hear that the shutter speed was really slow, 1/6 second when I looked at the exif data. Recipe for disappointment, right?
I shot several dozen frames at my wife's request, expecting a lot of blurry and out of focus images. But I was surprised to see to that three turned out almost useable. What's posted here is cropped a bit, with a little Lightroom fiddling thrown in.
So I guess the lesson here is that even if all the rules say it shouldn't work, try enough times and maybe you'll get lucky.
Jul 19, 2020 18:37:11 #
Always try - the "film" is free! Owls have been difficult everywhere I've lived. With out going back and counting, I don't think I've gotten four opportunities in the last fifteen years. You might still be able to improve him with post - possibly ask some of the high experts we have on UHH to give it a whirl.
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Jul 20, 2020 13:02:02 #
It looks like you had some fun as well as some success. Not having tried would have GUARANTEED failure.
Jul 20, 2020 17:14:43 #
Great shot. Any interest in trying to clone out the branch sticking inthe back of the neck? Thanks for sharing.
Mark
Mark
Jul 20, 2020 19:10:16 #
stu352 wrote:
So I guess the lesson here is that even if all the rules say it shouldn't work, try enough times and maybe you'll get lucky.
I believe that is referred to as the "Spray and pray method of photography." Very nice results and thank you for sharing.
Jul 20, 2020 22:50:44 #
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