Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LOL! Ted Bundy photography. At 02:27 PM 9/4/02 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: >Good God, Roy! How do you get the Heron to get into the car? Dinner and a >movie? :-) > >B. D. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Roy >Zartarian >Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:23 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] PWIFLI: I am not Doug Herr > > >The trick with herons is to come upon a young bird that hasn't yet developed >the skittishness of its elders. Despite their size, adult herons, at least >in my area of the northeastern U.S., do not tolerate the human presence >well, >although I've been able to shoot fairly closely from inside a car. > >One not very good example is at >http://pages.cthome.net/royzartarian/heron.html. Someday I'll get scans of >better slides posted. > >Roy > > >On Wednesday 04 September 2002 12:08 am, Peter Klein wrote: > > A couple of weekends ago, I came upon this fellow wading in the shallows >in > > Blaine, Washington. Now, I'm not Doug Herr, and I don't have a 400mm > > Telybazooka. But I had to do something. So I mounted my 90 on the M4-P > > and tiptoed as close as I could get. > > > > So, one Great Blue Heron in black and white, Delta 100, 90mm Elmarit, > > probably 1/500 @ f/8. This is only about half the frame, blown up as big > > as I dare. > > > > http://www.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/heron.jpg > > > > I really wish I'd had an SLR and a longer lens for this one. We're really > > at the limit of a 2700 dpi scanner. > > > > --Peter >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html