Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/25

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Belted Kingfisher
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Jan 25 14:31:55 2008

Doug,

A nice composition as it is.  Well done.  I have got to get me a DMR.  ;-)

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: wildlightphoto@earthlink.net
>
> The belted Kingfisher is notoriously difficult to get close to.  I used a 
> blind 
> for this photo, and made liberal use of Photoshop's cropping tools.
> 
> Now that I know where the bird's favorite perches are I can set up the 
> blind 
> closer to teh perch, and with a better background.  For now, this is what 
> I've 
> got:
> 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/alcedinidae/beki03.html
> 
> technical stuff:  R8/DMR @ISO 400
> 280mm f/4 APO with 1.4x APO-Extender-R
> tripod & blind
> 
> All comments welcome.
> 
> 
> Doug Herr
> Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
> 
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