Daniel Cadieux
09-07-2008, 08:33 PM
Taken at Ft. Desoto in early June. This fella was associating with a bunch of Willets and was actually quite hard to isolate from them. In this image I cloned out parts of two Willets at the left and right edges of the frame. When it first stretched the bill was pointing well away from me and I did not press the shutter at all through the beginning and the apex of the stretch. I did keep my eye on my viewfinder pointed on it, and luckily just as it started to pull its wing back into place it turned its head perfectly my way...never give up on a situation!!
The light was already harsh at this point, but with the very bright sand fooling the meter I had to meter in + 2/3 stop.
Canon 40D + 100-400L @ 360mm, aperture priority, 1/1000s., f/8, ISO 320, +0.7 EC, handheld.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w98/dancad/tn_MarbledGodwit_2480-01-1.jpg
The light was already harsh at this point, but with the very bright sand fooling the meter I had to meter in + 2/3 stop.
Canon 40D + 100-400L @ 360mm, aperture priority, 1/1000s., f/8, ISO 320, +0.7 EC, handheld.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w98/dancad/tn_MarbledGodwit_2480-01-1.jpg