This Great Blue Heron with a pretty nice present for momma was photographed at the Venice Rookery during the recent Post X-mas IPT. I am always amazed that very few of the many photographers at the rookery often do not even move their gear into position when one of the guys lands right on the bank nearby. I didThe pond this year is covered with algae providing a very nice background (especially on dark mornings).
Canon 500mm f/ L IS Lens with the 1.4X II TC and the EOS-1Ds Mark III. ISO 1250. Evaluative Metering + 1/3 stop: 1/400 sec. at f/8 set manually after histogram check. Gitzo 3530 LSV tripod and Mongoose M3.5 head.
All comments and questions welcome. Don't be shy. Go Giants!
Later and love,
artie
ps: Yes, the MIII 1Ds is noisier than the 1D MIII because of smaller individual pixels. That said, I just grabbed the camera and went to work. I will be interested to see what happens after I set in-camera ISO noise reduction... With 21 million pixels, the fine detail is mind-blowing.







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