Christof Ruch
01-15-2008, 04:18 PM
This was on my first encounter with these birds back in last June at the Carl-Zeiss bird watching station near Hamburg, Germany (http://www.nabu.de/m03/m03_03/03676.html). They have luxury fixed blinds there, which is great, but permit only a certain angle to shoot through (no low-angles at all). Won't complain about the solid wooden huts with seating available, though, nor the show outside :-)
Christof
Technical data:
Nikon D70, Tokina 300/f4 with Kenko TC 1.4x from tripod,
AP mode at f6.3 with matrix metering resulted in 1/1000s at ISO 400.
Raw conversion with NC4, resizing, some levels, with CS3 including edge mask to sharpen. This is quite a crop, I'll show the full canvas in a post below.
Christof
Technical data:
Nikon D70, Tokina 300/f4 with Kenko TC 1.4x from tripod,
AP mode at f6.3 with matrix metering resulted in 1/1000s at ISO 400.
Raw conversion with NC4, resizing, some levels, with CS3 including edge mask to sharpen. This is quite a crop, I'll show the full canvas in a post below.