young yellowbilled stork

Gallery: AvianPosted June 21, 201177 views5 comments

Another blurred and dark image.

Early morning before sunrise in Ishasha, Uganda I found this young yellow-billed stork in a pond. It was feeding on its own.

I wanted to include the mystical atmosphere of the dark pond it was feeding in, and used a slow shutter speed.

500 mm + 1.4 ext. from a safari car.

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on June 21, 2011 at 3:48 PM

Another blurred and dark image.

Exactly.

What were your shooting parameters? I would much prefer a noisy image than something is blurred and underexposed - this is the sort of situation where compromising on a high ISO makes sense. Taking off the 1.4x would also have given you another stop of light to work with.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on June 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM

Richard nailed it. I agree.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 21, 2011 at 9:56 PM

Interesting image, Jeffry. Rather more "artsy" than we usually see on this forum, but very successful at evoking the mood you intended.

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Comment posted by Peter Conway on June 21, 2011 at 10:20 PM

I sort of like the darkness of this, and the mood created by it, but the blurriness in the bird is not a plus for me.

Peter

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on June 22, 2011 at 12:18 AM

Jeffry, I think I see what you were trying to do, but I have to agree with Richard.

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