Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow. Great picture. Little else I can say, but my great sympathy to the hatchery operators. Those things can scare fish to death, not counting the ones they eat, and are smart and strong enough to be very difficult to harmlessly exclude. Marty On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > I really like the effect. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at > earthlink.net>wrote: > >> The local fish hatchery's resident Great Blue Heron has been very >> cooperative but the backgrounds and lighting have not been. ?Yesterday I >> tried unusual (for me) technique: >> >> I used a tripod >> I used the camera's base ISO >> I stopped the lens down to f/19 >> I used rubber muck boots >> I used mirror pre-release and self timer >> I used a 1/2 sec shutter speed. >> >> There were 2 ideas behind the 1/2 sec shutter speed. ?First, I wanted to >> reduce the contrast of the flowing water, and second, I wanted to contrast >> the heron's motionlessness with the flowing water. ?The rubber muck boots >> were so I could stand in the stream without soaking my feet. ?I did this >> to >> get a jumble of rocks out of the background. >> >> What do you think? (klicken Sie the Picture to embiggen the Pixels) >> >> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/gbhero04big.jpg >> >> R8/DMR, 280mm ?f/4 APO >> >> All comments and critique welcome. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >