Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Dark-eyed Junco
From: Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:43:30 -0800 (GMT-08:00)

Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Doug... I notice the most of your pictures of birds are done with the 560.
> I take it the 400 will not allow the image size of the bird at the distances
> you must shoot at to keep the bird in range?  The distance between the blind
> and the bird.....

It depends a lot on the bird, the vegetation, and other circumstances... like whether I put the blind in the right spot.  Watch for next week's Bird of the Week made with the 280 :-)

I've put a few web pages together illustrating the types of subjects I've gotten with the various long lenses:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/300.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/400.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/560.html

> .....do you use any flash lighting or depend on Mr. Sun?

It's nearly always wild light, no twinkies.... hence the name "wildlightphoto".  The one exception on my website is 

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/rbnu0.html


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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