Canon EOS 1Ds2 + 600/f4IS + 1.4x, Gitzo 1548 with Wimberley Head WH2.
Manual exposure mode - f8, 1/640s, ISO 400, auto white balance converted to daylight in processing.
RAW image processed in Capture One and sharpened in Photoshop CS3.
I've only been taking the camera out in the field since Easter. Over the winter I've been carrying out various habitat management tasks and planning in order to try and capture some particular images. This is one of them. My first attempt over Easter produced some images, but this is what I was after - taken this weekend.
What a stonking image. Time very well spent. If there is a certain species/image I'm after then I will spend a lot of time observing and working the animal out, (it's routine etc), for instance a pair of Barn Owl's that are using my Box I have been observing them almost daily for about four months and know to the minute when they will appear, and all there favourite perches/hunting posts/areas. The female is on eggs in the box so the male is providing her with food, he is out in the early evening light hunting, so over the next few weekends I will begin to try and get images, setting up where I know he will be, but not disturb him hunting.
Your image does have a few dust spots that need terminating, by the tail and on right of image where the reeds cross,and down left hand edge there are a couple
Excellent work Phil. Please let me know if you are planning the workshops again for this year.
Regadrs
Rob
Posted by Alan Bryant on April 23, 2007 at 6:53 AM
I bet you punched the air when you saw this on the screen-superb
Posted by John Chapman on April 23, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Stunning shot Phil.
John
Aberdeen
Posted by Rob Ashton on April 23, 2007 at 10:58 AM
They say that nature photography is 90% planning and knowledge of subject and 10% actually taking the shots. Because of this, I will never be good enough as I just don't have the time.
Did you use manual focus on this Phil? Is the reed perch in the open with BG reeds or in the midst of others?
Stunning as usual from you and a species that I have heard but not seen.
Rob
Posted by Andy Astbury on April 23, 2007 at 12:18 PM
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19 repliesBearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) - Essex, UK
Canon EOS 1Ds2 + 600/f4IS + 1.4x, Gitzo 1548 with Wimberley Head WH2.
Manual exposure mode - f8, 1/640s, ISO 400, auto white balance converted to daylight in processing.
RAW image processed in Capture One and sharpened in Photoshop CS3.
I've only been taking the camera out in the field since Easter. Over the winter I've been carrying out various habitat management tasks and planning in order to try and capture some particular images. This is one of them. My first attempt over Easter produced some images, but this is what I was after - taken this weekend.
Planning has certainly paid off, a beauty of an image of a fantastic bird....
Like it loads
Tim
What a stonking image. Time very well spent. If there is a certain species/image I'm after then I will spend a lot of time observing and working the animal out, (it's routine etc), for instance a pair of Barn Owl's that are using my Box I have been observing them almost daily for about four months and know to the minute when they will appear, and all there favourite perches/hunting posts/areas. The female is on eggs in the box so the male is providing her with food, he is out in the early evening light hunting, so over the next few weekends I will begin to try and get images, setting up where I know he will be, but not disturb him hunting.
Your image does have a few dust spots that need terminating, by the tail and on right of image where the reeds cross,and down left hand edge there are a couple
Excellent work Phil. Please let me know if you are planning the workshops again for this year.
Regadrs
Rob
Thats a awesome shot in everyway.
Paul
John
Aberdeen
Did you use manual focus on this Phil? Is the reed perch in the open with BG reeds or in the midst of others?
Stunning as usual from you and a species that I have heard but not seen.
Rob
Regards
Andy
A superb shot of a hard to get species a real cracker!!!!
Craig
Craig Churchill
www.craigchurchill.co.uk
Kevin
David
Did you use Fill in Flash through a diffuser in this image?
T