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Huckaback Photo
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 15:29
Thought it was time I put up some bird shots.
The junior Robin decided to fly toward me and got so close he was inside focus range of my 100 to 400 L walked away and this is the result.
Mandarin Duck was taken using 200mm f 2.8 L, I liked the lighting just catching the female.

Martin (Huckaback Photo)

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cfcRebel
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 15:34
Beautiful shots Martin! The ducks are gorgeous, but too bad the male was in a shade.
Thanks for sharing.
Huckaback Photo
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 16:06
CFC

Thanks for comments, I deliberately waited for the male to go into the shade as I wanted only the female for this shot, these have been used for greetings cards & exhibitions.
Please take a look at my previous image posted on my gallery again set up to show just one bird, also with the 200mm f 2.8 L both with D60.

This shot has been more sucessfull in competitions for me.

http://www.pbase.com/huckaback_photo/image/41232673

Martin (Huckaback Photo)
slacker
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 16:17
great detail!
Huckaback Photo
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 16:17
Just one more duck shot, these are walking on water (Ice really)

Martin (Huckaback Photo)
Huckaback Photo
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 16:32
Forgot to mention the first picture of young Robin was taken with 1D mk 2,
400 iso
1/400th sec at f5
100 to 400 is L lens
AV mode
focus set to back button my norm is to use only one focus point. in camera sharpness has been increased.
Cheers
Martin (Huckaback Photo)
skade
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 16:36
Very nice!
Huckaback Photo
6th of June 2005 (Mon), 16:44
Sandi & Slacker
Thank you both.
Martin