i think this a red tail hawk
Jun 30, 2019 12:58:05 #
Am I correct? It is hard to get close. I was hiding under some pine trees. There is a pair and I think they have young as there is a lot of screeching in the woods. I shot with Nikon d500, 18-300 zoom at 300 mm, f20, 1/250s, iso 500 white balance sunny. all manual. If I let the camera chose the exposure; the dark background deceives it and it over exposes. No post processing and this is the as shot jpeg. Per Expert GPS the subject is about 290 feet.Great side affect of the birds is the squirrel population is way down. There is the remains of a squirrel on the dock
Jun 30, 2019 13:37:19 #
Jun 30, 2019 13:48:05 #
Jun 30, 2019 13:55:34 #
Interesting settings, why the extremely high Aperture??? What effect were you hoping that would provide? Just curious....
Jun 30, 2019 15:51:52 #
I had been having issues with focus while the bird was moving so I closed down the lens. I also found that group was not working well with keeping the camera in focus. According to photopills the settings I used should be Dof near limit should be 209 to and the far limit 487 feet.
I will try to use continuous and group and see what happens and go back to my preferred f8. that should still give me acceptable dof I can up the shutter to a 1/500s
I will try to use continuous and group and see what happens and go back to my preferred f8. that should still give me acceptable dof I can up the shutter to a 1/500s
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