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Nov 02, 2012 22:15 |  #1

Shot with a 7d and 70-200 f/2.8 II

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Nov 02, 2012 22:55 |  #2

Wow, awesome shot!


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Nov 03, 2012 10:30 |  #3

great shot, love the background




  
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Nov 03, 2012 11:11 |  #4

Great shot


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Nov 03, 2012 11:59 as a reply to  @ acajun's post |  #5

Nice.

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Nov 03, 2012 18:58 |  #6

Scrumhalf wrote in post #15200951 (external link)
Wow, awesome shot!

rick_reno wrote in post #15202062 (external link)
great shot, love the background

acajun wrote in post #15202208 (external link)
Great shot

TerryWSmith wrote in post #15202309 (external link)
Nice.

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Thank you, everyone! It was one of the very first shots I took with that lens; it's not too shabby of a lens! :D


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Nov 03, 2012 19:18 |  #7

Excellent shot, they can be hard, for me anyhow, to catch in flight, you have done quite well, great shooting!


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Nov 03, 2012 19:59 as a reply to  @ Oldjackssparrows's post |  #8

Give yourself more credit....but it is a great lens. ;) Excellent in-flight.


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Nov 03, 2012 23:09 |  #9

Fantastic shot, congrats on a BIF shot


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Nov 04, 2012 17:03 |  #10

BGgraphy wrote in post #15203479 (external link)
Excellent shot, they can be hard, for me anyhow, to catch in flight, you have done quite well, great shooting!

Thanks! They can be quite skittish it seems, at least in my experience.

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Give yourself more credit....but it is a great lens. ;) Excellent in-flight.

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Fantastic shot, congrats on a BIF shot

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Nov 04, 2012 17:32 as a reply to  @ bimhoff07's post |  #11

A lovely shot, no two ways about it.


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Nov 04, 2012 17:36 as a reply to  @ Andrew Tingle's post |  #12

Excellent shot. I actually saw one of these guys here today, I thought they had all left by now.


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Nov 04, 2012 23:53 |  #13

I meant to ask - did you have the 2X TC on for this shot? I can never get close enough even with my 300mm zoom to get such a shot with a great blue - it seems like they take off at the slightest disturbance. Or you are far stealthier than I have managed to be.


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Nov 04, 2012 23:55 |  #14

Tack sharp. Beautiful shot and great timing.


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Nov 05, 2012 12:30 |  #15

Andrew Tingle wrote in post #15206870 (external link)
A lovely shot, no two ways about it.

Wallace River wrote in post #15206878 (external link)
Excellent shot. I actually saw one of these guys here today, I thought they had all left by now.

Thank you!

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I meant to ask - did you have the 2X TC on for this shot? I can never get close enough even with my 300mm zoom to get such a shot with a great blue - it seems like they take off at the slightest disturbance. Or you are far stealthier than I have managed to be.

This was without the 2x. I was walking along a spillway, and it happened to fly up past me without me even realizing it had been down in the water. I fired away as fast as I could before it was too far gone. The AF locked on incredibly fast, which certainly helped with the result. Typically, I do need the 2x to get close enough for a good shot of these birds, but it slows the AF quite a bit, so in-flight shots become a challenge.

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Tack sharp. Beautiful shot and great timing.

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