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Photographer_Bill

Photographer_Bill

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It's starting to cool off in the great northwest (of Florida :LOL:) and many birds are leaving the panhandle to fly further south for warmer beaches, so that leaves Pelican's and Seagull's as my birds to train on. I have not seriously photographed wildlife since the film days so trying to get back into the swing of things and still learning a lot about my equipment that is mostly used for people and how to adapt it to wildlife. Went for a walk along the beach with my wife the other day and brought my new 400mm f/4.5 with me to see what I could capture. I had the 180-600 when it first came out but was not prepared for how heavy that lens would be so I decided to trade up for a 400 and am delightfully surprised at how light this lens is.

I was tracking this pelican when he took a sharp turn and went after a little seagull which I thought was odd until I noticed the seagull had a big chunk of fish in his beak, in shot 3 I thought the seagull himself was going to be pelican dinner. Shot with my Z8 using Wide L with subject tracking, images are cropped some and some PP in Lightroom as I continue to learn new techniques.

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Not pelican or seagull but saw this guy further down the beach, I believe it is a juvenile stilt sandpiper but not entirely certain as I'm still trying to identify a lot of the birds around here
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K9Kirk said:
Nice set but I mostly like the last two shots for it being more level to the bird and that cool wave splash in the bg in the last shot.
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Thank you Kirk, yes, those last two occurred when I was sitting down fairly low to the water and this guy came strolling by. Eventually I want to get a ground pod and gimbal and play around with ground level shots, I suppose I could always flip my screen out and hold the camera very low to the ground but I still find myself wanting to look through the VF so have difficulty relinquishing control to the rear screen.
 
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