On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > Female red-winged blackbirds spend most of their time invisible in a > mass of reeds. Yesterday's zoo trip -- hooray!, ponds with viewing > platforms -- produced, along with about six male blackbirds crazed with > spring and highly visible, one visible female. > > http://picasaweb.google.com/graydonish/Blackbird#slideshow > > Taking pictures of songbirds generally makes me feel that f2.8 is very > slow and 800mm is awfully short, but these mostly came out OK. 800mm/F8 > Rokinon mirror lens, K20D, ISO200, tripod and cable release. Shutter > speeds between 1/40 and 1/100.
Very nice series. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
