I was testing out a new lens, when I got this shot of a Blue Heron fishing in a small stream outside of Easton, MD. The new lens is a Canon 75-300mm mounted on an Olympus E PL1 camera. Since the lens does not have an aperture ring, I had use a lens adapter with an aperture ring. Also I had to manually focus this series of shots (I always shoot in bursts) because I don't want to spend an extra 200 bucks for the adapter that allows for all of the automatic lens functions. I bought the lens for distance shooting so I really was not concerned with DOF since in most zoom shots the depth of field is rather small.
Any way, I thought the lens performed quit well considering that I shot this hand-held in Aperture priority mode. It was a bright day so I bumped down the ISO to 400 so I could get a semi-fast shutter speed. The RAW shot out of my camera was a little washed so I had to photoshop. Layer 1 sharpness, Layer 2-reduce noise, Layer 3 warm the colors, Layer 4, increase saturation, then Layer 5, adjust the levels for a slightly better contrast.
Nice shot. Too bad the 2nd isn't one with a fish in that beak.
Sarge69
Go figure. He missed and my proceeding shots show that he came up empty. Since I pulled over on the road and had my kids in the car, I didn't have that much time, so when I was putting my lens cap back on, he caught a fish. I think he was showing off. I only had time for a single burst of shots.
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