Canon 40D on a monopod, 100-400 @400mm,
1/250, f/22, ISO 640, Spot Metering,
Walking out from some Mangroves I startled this NH causing it to run under some adjacent mangrove limbs. I walked around and even hid and waited waited for quite a while but no clear image to be found. Do you take an image like this or just forget it and look for something else?
I would probably ruin it trying to PS them out.
Cute little guy! I wasnt far away,
Before you ask why a f/22, I was just trying a lot of different settings. :)
I was gonna ask about f/22! Obviously by using a wider apertutre the BG would have been blurred much better than what you got here - did you take some in the f/8, f/7.1 range?. Quite a few distracting elements here, and the shadowed half of the bird is unfortunate.
In answer to the question on whether or not I would have pressed the shutter, probably. But then, I saw my first YCNH last week. I watched otherwise normal, well-behaved adults nearly pummel on another to death with their lenses trying to get a clear view through the leaves. Seriously, one guy got whacked in the head with a 600mm.
If the sticks in front were leaves instead, this could be a very intimate feeling image.
Thanks Daniel and Jim for stopping by.
Jim I hope you enjoyed your stay here in Fla. Hope you also got lots of great images to share. Also hope you got a Spoonbill.
This bird has been one of the toughest for me to get a good image of as I have ever seen. Almost as hard as a Belted Kingfisher.
They are sly, clever and as peaceful a bird as I have seen.
I may try cloning out the branches, but I will probably just mess it up!
bf
Ycnh
Reply With Quote
