Jay Gould
09-29-2009, 08:27 PM
The adventure began when I flew out of Australia; the schooling in how to hand hold my 300 and perhaps graduate to a 500 began yesterday morning when I met Jim Neiger. This is the last capture of today, my second day with Jim. A wonderful person; an incredible two days of learning and shooting.
Yes, beyond any doubt I am totally satisfy with Jim's approach to how to handhold my 300, and his approach to exposure. Those of you who want to learn how to HH; Jim is "The Man".
Let me quickly add that I am also looking forward to learning how to use my tripod and Sidekick from James Shadle so that I have alternative approaches to BIF photography. That education begins on Friday.
Knowing that I had surgery to both hands, Jim devised a special tool to assist in controlling the lens with my left hand so that I had something solid to grab onto with my entire hand/fist rather than merely holding onto either the tripod collar or having the lens rest in my open hand thereby forcing me to spread my fingers.
The image is presented as captured; no PP - simply conversion from CR2 to JPEG and from Adobe RGB to sRgb. On Thursday I am spending the day with Robert O'Toole doing "Photoshop" and this definitely will be one of the images we will address; I will post the image after PP the O'Toole method.
I was shooting the hawk sitting in the top of the bush and Jim said "ready" and made a noise to cause the hawk to fly. I hope you enjoy the results as much as I am.
:) No wonder I am in ETL, I am not sure how to state all of the stats when shooting in manual; for exp prog and meterng is it simply manual?
Camera: 50D
Capture date/time: 29 Sep 09; 7:00pm
Light condition: dusk
Lens: 300 f/2.8
Focal length: 780
Extender: 2x
Tube: none
Flash/Comp: no; none
ISO: Auto - 1000
Exp Prog: M
Speed: 1/500 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Exp Comp:
Metering: M
WB: Auto
AF Drive: AI Servo
Tripod: no
All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!
Yes, beyond any doubt I am totally satisfy with Jim's approach to how to handhold my 300, and his approach to exposure. Those of you who want to learn how to HH; Jim is "The Man".
Let me quickly add that I am also looking forward to learning how to use my tripod and Sidekick from James Shadle so that I have alternative approaches to BIF photography. That education begins on Friday.
Knowing that I had surgery to both hands, Jim devised a special tool to assist in controlling the lens with my left hand so that I had something solid to grab onto with my entire hand/fist rather than merely holding onto either the tripod collar or having the lens rest in my open hand thereby forcing me to spread my fingers.
The image is presented as captured; no PP - simply conversion from CR2 to JPEG and from Adobe RGB to sRgb. On Thursday I am spending the day with Robert O'Toole doing "Photoshop" and this definitely will be one of the images we will address; I will post the image after PP the O'Toole method.
I was shooting the hawk sitting in the top of the bush and Jim said "ready" and made a noise to cause the hawk to fly. I hope you enjoy the results as much as I am.
:) No wonder I am in ETL, I am not sure how to state all of the stats when shooting in manual; for exp prog and meterng is it simply manual?
Camera: 50D
Capture date/time: 29 Sep 09; 7:00pm
Light condition: dusk
Lens: 300 f/2.8
Focal length: 780
Extender: 2x
Tube: none
Flash/Comp: no; none
ISO: Auto - 1000
Exp Prog: M
Speed: 1/500 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Exp Comp:
Metering: M
WB: Auto
AF Drive: AI Servo
Tripod: no
All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!