Daniel Cadieux
12-30-2010, 11:13 PM
I've seen these guys alot in the past, mostly in Florida (before my photography days), but not here in my hometown where they are considered quite uncommon. Where they do occur they are generally unaccessible and out of sight. When a family of three (male, female, juvenile) decided to make their temporary home close to a public park, well, many local photograhers took the opportunity to photograph them. I suppose many of you might find it odd that such a common bird would attract such attention :p!!
They were almost always in good range for those with a 500mm + TC, but for my shorter focal lenght I needed to hunker down into the reeds and hope for a swim-by or two (they wouldn't come in closer if not hiding). Fairly busy BG, but this was the "cleanest" image I got - the result of lying in the seeping muck. Just about FF, so my startegy worked :-)
Canon 40D + 100-400L at 400mm, aperture priority, evaluative metering, 1/500s., f/6.3, ISO 800, +0.3 EC, natural light, handheld.
They were almost always in good range for those with a 500mm + TC, but for my shorter focal lenght I needed to hunker down into the reeds and hope for a swim-by or two (they wouldn't come in closer if not hiding). Fairly busy BG, but this was the "cleanest" image I got - the result of lying in the seeping muck. Just about FF, so my startegy worked :-)
Canon 40D + 100-400L at 400mm, aperture priority, evaluative metering, 1/500s., f/6.3, ISO 800, +0.3 EC, natural light, handheld.