[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/replied to: >I especially enjoyed your heron/egret shots, and I would choose your >reflection shots as outstanding. There appears to be one shot missing - >the one submitted to Photoforum for this week's gallery. That was >special, as you had to wait so long to capture it, well done.
That one has already found a place on my 'Other Birds' page. I might be making up a special page for these birds though, I seem to have some luck lately catching them. I'm still trying to figure out a way to get my flash in the bird blind, the window slits are not tall enough, I'd need an assistant to hold the flash to the side off camera. I caught the little bugger diving in to catch a fish, caught him spashing in and out, but even with 1/1000th speed it could not freeze him motions. Of course now that sunny days are here, I could do it at 1/4000th. If not my dog's going to have to hold the flash for me. I understand if I turn my 550EX down to like 1/16th power I can get a really short burst. Combined with the Better Beamer, and at about 30 feet at ISO 400 I might be able to get him at much higher speeds, or perhaps more like 1/8th power at ISO 800. I haven't even used my Better Beamer yet, just can't use it in the blinds here. I have caught many times water running off a Heron's beak, or the plume from his catch, but it needs a bit of sparkle and it's just been cloudy and dark. So feel free to check out my other pages, Kingfishers now reside with 'Other Birds'. And the series I DID capture is there. Most amazing to me was this guy's style. He sat on the stick out over the water preening himself casually, then would just in a flash dive in and be back up with a little fish in his beak. If I'm real lucky I'll get him when he has a bigger fish that takes more than a half second to flick down his little throat. Lots more Egret and Heron photos too in the gallery. I read a story on Photo.net from a lady who dreamed of catching an Egret in nice backlight, then finally did. I was thinking about her the other day when I shot some of these backlit ones. I like the one Egret shot with purple wildflowers along the bank in the background, that really makes a difference in this enviromental nature stuff. The birds aren't always where I'd like them to be. Jim Davis Nature Photography http://www.kjsl.com/~jbdavis/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
