Otto
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After having reviewed some of Steve's videos and books I went back to the field. I followed an Egret for a few day and hung out for a while. I was able to get pretty close by crawling on my belly on the semi-wet ground ( bit of mud here and there) and not spook the bird two days in a row.
I think it was the same bird My aim was to photograph at eye level and get the best out of my Nikon 200-500 F5.6. Since I envisioned a better background separation as described by Steve I even used my Nikon 1.4xiii on the zoom. Focusing was atrocious but hey, needed to get it out of my system.
I was pleased with he background as compare to what I was getting standing up and looking down on the bird. Also it made for some very exciting crawling around which is really what I wanted to do.
The next thing is to watch my exposure. After I came back home, two days after the fact I realized that I had set my minimum ISO at 1250 or some ridiculous number like that. I purposely went out on a foggy day and it got better as time went on. But now my auto ISO is a respectable 64 at low end and 6400 at high end instead of the 1250-50000 I had. What a 'maroon'. That's one regret by I don't regret the Egrets and the time they gave to learn a valuable lesson.
One more thing is the processing which needs to improve. I recently started using Photoshop again after using Lightroom for such a long time I find I don't know where anything is anymore. In any case, lots to work on and keep on learning.
Happy crawling!
I think it was the same bird My aim was to photograph at eye level and get the best out of my Nikon 200-500 F5.6. Since I envisioned a better background separation as described by Steve I even used my Nikon 1.4xiii on the zoom. Focusing was atrocious but hey, needed to get it out of my system.
I was pleased with he background as compare to what I was getting standing up and looking down on the bird. Also it made for some very exciting crawling around which is really what I wanted to do.
The next thing is to watch my exposure. After I came back home, two days after the fact I realized that I had set my minimum ISO at 1250 or some ridiculous number like that. I purposely went out on a foggy day and it got better as time went on. But now my auto ISO is a respectable 64 at low end and 6400 at high end instead of the 1250-50000 I had. What a 'maroon'. That's one regret by I don't regret the Egrets and the time they gave to learn a valuable lesson.
One more thing is the processing which needs to improve. I recently started using Photoshop again after using Lightroom for such a long time I find I don't know where anything is anymore. In any case, lots to work on and keep on learning.
Happy crawling!
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