Julie Kenward
10-12-2008, 07:57 PM
It's not often I get to be in this forum and it's certainly a rarity that I would show up with a Great Blue Heron image so I guess you could say it was a good afternoon!
I made about 150 images of him today - most were out of the range of my 70-200mm lens but a few came out okay. (This was a rare instance where a GBH came close enough to the edge of the pond for me to even get a decent capture without spying me and flying away. This guy must have been seriously hungry!)
The colors on the lake are from the changing autumn scenery. I did a pretty big crop and then some minor tweaks in levels and curves. I also did a gaussian blur on the BG to tone down all the intricate reflections.
Canon 40D, 70-200mm f/4L USM
f/7.1 @ 1/320th, ISO 400
Center-weighted metering, Manual mode
Handheld, natural late afternoon light
I made about 150 images of him today - most were out of the range of my 70-200mm lens but a few came out okay. (This was a rare instance where a GBH came close enough to the edge of the pond for me to even get a decent capture without spying me and flying away. This guy must have been seriously hungry!)
The colors on the lake are from the changing autumn scenery. I did a pretty big crop and then some minor tweaks in levels and curves. I also did a gaussian blur on the BG to tone down all the intricate reflections.
Canon 40D, 70-200mm f/4L USM
f/7.1 @ 1/320th, ISO 400
Center-weighted metering, Manual mode
Handheld, natural late afternoon light