The first photo is of a Red-breasted Nuthatch taken in my backyard. I think it's primarily interesting to me because I was just fooling around with too much focal length and not enough light, and I took about 30 photos of this bird in very indifferent lighting. They were all handheld 400mm f/5.6L w/ Tamron 1.4x wide open. ISO 1600, 1/80th (yeah, 1/80th). I only got about 3 usable photos doing this, but it was fun to try - I didn't want to run back in and grab my tripod 
Next, a couple of images of a captive Eurasian Eagle-owl. I saw this beautiful, 5 month-old, raptor at a falconer's exhibition at our local Celtic Festival. These were taken with my 70-200 f/2.8L IS.
ISO 200, f/4, 1/500th, 190mm (uncropped)
ISO 200, f/4, 1/200th, 200mm (Cropped for aspect ratio only)
Finally,
this isn't the usual sort of thing that I post. In a way, the real impact of this image is lost at this size, but you can still see the play of light here that attracted me to this scene in the first place. I wish that there was less sky visible, but what can you do? I darkened it a tiny bit, but I didn't wan't it looking wierd either.
ISO 100, f/8, 1/8th, 24mm, polarizing filter to help darken the sky.
C & C are always welcome.
= Ed =
ISO 100, f/8, 1/8th, 24mm, polarizing filter to help darken the sky.
C & C are always welcome.
= Ed =
