Doug Hitchcox
02-13-2008, 10:51 PM
Here goes my first post, sorry in advance if something is wrong!
I created this image a month ago towards the end of my winter break. On one of my attempts to get close to this bird I found myself laying on my stomach on a grim covered dock with a grebe directly between the sun and myself, however it was very close (full frame at about 300mm). So I went back, only this time with a nice thick pair of waders. With the sun on my back I walked out into the water and slowly got closer and closer to him, only moving when he dove under. For the record, even in heavily insulated waders, Maine's ocean water temperature is extremely cold during January. It was a good thing that my lens has IS or else most of my images would be blurry from shivering! So after spending a couple hours in the water over two days I managed to come away with at least one shot worth sharing. I have only been doing this for a little over a year and know that I have a long way to go, so any comments and especially criticism is welcome!
A personal nit of this image is that the cheek is a little blown out. I noticed this while in the water by checking the histogram but after taking some shots at -0.3ev I thought this looked better overall.
Canon 30D with 100-400mm
f/5.6 1/640 ISO100 Slight crop
I created this image a month ago towards the end of my winter break. On one of my attempts to get close to this bird I found myself laying on my stomach on a grim covered dock with a grebe directly between the sun and myself, however it was very close (full frame at about 300mm). So I went back, only this time with a nice thick pair of waders. With the sun on my back I walked out into the water and slowly got closer and closer to him, only moving when he dove under. For the record, even in heavily insulated waders, Maine's ocean water temperature is extremely cold during January. It was a good thing that my lens has IS or else most of my images would be blurry from shivering! So after spending a couple hours in the water over two days I managed to come away with at least one shot worth sharing. I have only been doing this for a little over a year and know that I have a long way to go, so any comments and especially criticism is welcome!
A personal nit of this image is that the cheek is a little blown out. I noticed this while in the water by checking the histogram but after taking some shots at -0.3ev I thought this looked better overall.
Canon 30D with 100-400mm
f/5.6 1/640 ISO100 Slight crop