Posted by Nigel Blake on April 14, 2008 at 3:59 AM
I have spent the last week or two shooting loads of birds on new feeder products for a catalogue so its good to get back to shooting some of "my own" images..... and I'm off to RAF Cottesmore to get the Vulcan arrival today, fingers crossed the info is correct!
A very low POV shot of a Yellowhammer on the lawn, It was behind a ridge which was in shadow and I added the 2X + a 12mm tube to get the tight shallow DOF image that I could see might work, and for once the bird did not clear-off just as I pulled focus!
Canon EOS 1ds MkII 600mm f4 IS, plus Canon 2X converter... and a JCB ( many thanks to Andy D )
2008:04:13 09:40:55
1200mm
1/320 sec, f/13
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
Exp comp: -1/3
ISO: 320
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous: frame 1
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 13.2MB
Image size: 3328 x 4992
Color matrix 4: Adobe RGB
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Contrast: -1
Sharpness level: 0
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn 17: Expand AF activation area to 7 AF points
Usual RAW processing and levels adjust with Breezebrowser pro, resize sharpen etc CS3, uncropped.
Posted by Andy Astbury on April 14, 2008 at 4:07 AM
Well it pleases my eye no end Nigel - very nice
Let me know when you've put your Vulcan pics up - the most awesome plane every built
Posted by Simon Litten on April 14, 2008 at 6:40 AM
What a corker! Well worth the effort.
Simon
Posted by Paul Inglis on April 14, 2008 at 6:54 AM
Hi Nigel,
Very, very nice capture! Simply love it!
Posted by Dave Bartlett on April 14, 2008 at 8:05 AM
That's really different - like it a lot!
Dave
Posted by Dawn Monrose on April 14, 2008 at 8:11 AM
Wow, great capture! Great sharpness, love the pov, and the colour!
Fantastic shot Nigel,
oh I love you British guys for your nice
creative shortcuts.
Bertl Menegoni
Innsbruck
Austria
Posted by John Robinson on April 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Certainly different, but I can't make my mind up about these ultra low angle shots. They seem to me to be not the way we would normally view things but that's just my own view. Would have worked better for me as a low job I think with more of the bird in shot.
JohnR
Nice - I've been trying for ages to get a shot of one that regularly visits the garden. Won't play fair so far!
Posted by Nigel Blake on April 15, 2008 at 2:15 AM
Many thanks for the comments!
Andy A..
the Vulcan shots are here http://ngbjets.blogspot.com a bit different from expected as it was a full emergency landing, no real problem though, in the end it was due to a fault in an engine fire warning light!
Posted by Alan Bryant on April 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Discussion
14 repliesA very low POV shot of a Yellowhammer on the lawn, It was behind a ridge which was in shadow and I added the 2X + a 12mm tube to get the tight shallow DOF image that I could see might work, and for once the bird did not clear-off just as I pulled focus!
Canon EOS 1ds MkII 600mm f4 IS, plus Canon 2X converter... and a JCB ( many thanks to Andy D )
2008:04:13 09:40:55
1200mm
1/320 sec, f/13
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
Exp comp: -1/3
ISO: 320
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous: frame 1
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 13.2MB
Image size: 3328 x 4992
Color matrix 4: Adobe RGB
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Contrast: -1
Sharpness level: 0
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn 17: Expand AF activation area to 7 AF points
Usual RAW processing and levels adjust with Breezebrowser pro, resize sharpen etc CS3, uncropped.
Let me know when you've put your Vulcan pics up - the most awesome plane every built
Simon
Very, very nice capture! Simply love it!
Dave
Dread to think what you were doing with the JCB
Matt
Malcolm
The vivid yellow really pops out, yet also melts seamlessly into the greens.
Like this a lot
Alan
oh I love you British guys for your nice
creative shortcuts.
Bertl Menegoni
Innsbruck
Austria
JohnR
Andy A..
the Vulcan shots are here http://ngbjets.blogspot.com a bit different from expected as it was a full emergency landing, no real problem though, in the end it was due to a fault in an engine fire warning light!