Buzzed by a Golden Eagle
Jan 5, 2013 01:05:33 #
Superb shots! I see you shot the golden eagle in Av. Can you explain your thought process for doing that? I would have thought with moving subjects, youd choose Tv. Maybe with the great light and wide open aperture, you just knew shutter speed would be plenty fast?
Btw, I dont see any EXIF data on the bald eagle shot. Am I missing something?
Btw, I dont see any EXIF data on the bald eagle shot. Am I missing something?
Jan 5, 2013 02:11:57 #
Jan 5, 2013 07:24:31 #
Jan 5, 2013 08:50:04 #
Hi MT Shooter: You do justice to the wonderful wildlife that we have in this country.
Jan 5, 2013 09:17:09 #
globetrekker wrote:
Superb shots! I see you shot the golden eagle in Av. Can you explain your thought process for doing that? I would have thought with moving subjects, youd choose Tv. Maybe with the great light and wide open aperture, you just knew shutter speed would be plenty fast?
Btw, I dont see any EXIF data on the bald eagle shot. Am I missing something?
Btw, I dont see any EXIF data on the bald eagle shot. Am I missing something?
I shoot all my wildlife shots in Aperture Priority mode because I want to control the depth of field. Speed is always a lesser issue as most wildlife does not move so fast as to require it. I use ISO 200 on a sunny day with a long lens as a general rule, and that almost always gets me between 1/800sec and 1/1600sec which is plenty fast enough. If I want to consider motion blur on flapping wings I just click down to ISO 100 and I can often catch that wing blur.
The bald eagle shot was cropped in Photoshop 5.0 which is the program I use for quick edits much of the time, its very old but so am I and we are comfortable together. Unfortunately that old photoshop does not preserve EXIF data when it is used on an image so the date gets stripped even in the case of no other editing being done beyond that cropping.
Jan 5, 2013 09:18:05 #
Boone wrote:
Very nice MT. AS usual, thank you for the post. Boone
Thanks Boone (but you don't see my rejects! LOL)
Jan 5, 2013 09:18:25 #
DaisyB wrote:
Great shots their beautiful
Thank you. And welcome to the forum.
Jan 5, 2013 09:19:12 #
photonutbob wrote:
Hi MT Shooter: You do justice to the wonderful wildlife that we have in this country.
Thanks Bob, I don't get out as much as I did when I was younger, but I do enjoy it.
Jan 5, 2013 09:22:36 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Thanks Erv. I've been stalking that family of Goldens for 2 months now and these are the first decent shots I have gotten of any of them, and by accident no less.
Erv wrote:
Beautiful shots MT. You lucky dog!! :):)
Erv
Erv
Thanks Erv. I've been stalking that family of Goldens for 2 months now and these are the first decent shots I have gotten of any of them, and by accident no less.
Ya just gotta love it when a plan comes together :wink: Nice captures!
Jan 5, 2013 09:58:51 #
Jan 5, 2013 10:09:14 #
Gary521
Loc: Colorado
I think you still got an immature Bald Eagle. Golden Eagles do not have any white under their wings. I made the same mistake.
Jan 5, 2013 10:22:01 #
Gary521 wrote:
I think you still got an immature Bald Eagle. Golden Eagles do not have any white under their wings. I made the same mistake.
This is a sub-adult Golden Eagle, they do not get their full adult coloration until 5-6 years of age. Sub adults often have large amounts of white under their wings, on their backs and even sometimes in their tails. This particular bird is likely 2 1/2 years old and I have observed it and its sibling in flight with both adults of the family on numerous occasions over the past year and a half.
http://www.themodernapprentice.com/golden.htm
Jan 5, 2013 10:33:34 #
Jan 5, 2013 11:10:51 #
Jan 5, 2013 11:48:10 #
MT Shooter wrote:
I was set up on an immature bald eagle in a field ... (show quote)
Not clear if you were using a tripod or hand held. I'm guessing tripod. Do you ever hand hold the 800mm?
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