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Gallery: AvianPosted August 12, 201170 views4 comments

After getting special permission to stay out after dark in order to capture star trails at the Pawnee National Grasslands State Park here in Colorado, I thought I would try to capture some birds with my new lens and camera. These birds are a type of sparrow I believe, and I enjoyed watching them for the better part of an hour. Each time they perched on this yucca, one of them would have a mouth-full of grasshopper (I'm guessing there may have been a nest nearby, because they kept disappearing over the ridge and then reappearing on this yucca).

This was great fun, even though the star trails didn't turn out. All comments/critiques welcome.

Canon 7D
70-200mm f/2.8
1.4x teleconverter
98mm total focal length
f/14
1/40s
ISO 800
Polarizer
Crop 35% of original

Thanks for viewing,
Chrisie Jackson
Denver, Colorado

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on August 12, 2011 at 2:17 PM

Chrisie not sure about the distance from your subject or your camera settings but i do know that you have got an image that in my opinion is superb it as a real artistic feel to it,very well done.

Keith.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on August 12, 2011 at 3:33 PM

I agree with Keths' comment, this is a very artistic image, well done. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Christine Jackson on August 12, 2011 at 3:54 PM

Great question Keith--I was about 30-40 feet away from the birds, and was using the 7D in manual mode with a burst of 9 fps (playing with the camera to see what it would do).

Thanks for comments, Keith and John.

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Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on August 12, 2011 at 7:56 PM

nice composition, Christine. I like the birds and yuccas against the sunset.

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