[LRflex] Re: Making do....

[David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 07/12/2006, you wrote:
>David Young <telyt@telus=2Enet> wrote:
>
> > http://www3=2Etelus=2Enet/~telyt/photokina=5F1=2Ehtm
> > http://www3=2Etelus=2Enet/~telyt/photokina=5F2=2Ehtm
>
>Without a size reference I'm tempted to call this a Golden Eagle but I
>don't know european buteos at all so I could be mistaken=2E  The beak look=
>s
>like Golden Eagle size and proportions=2E
>
>I see what you mean about the second photo=2E=2E it has eye contact, but t=
>he
>background and lower-than-eye-level view are less appealing=2E
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www=2Ewildlightph


Doug:

There were a bunch of birds there... and well away from the 
crowd.  The were "targets" for those testing spotting scopes and 
binoculars.. a stand for the people was set up, across the square.  I 
wanted "bird portraits", as you call your shots of captive 
birds.  But with what I had, the birds were quite far away.  Both 
shots are heavily cropped.  Still, they work, at least for the net... 
and probably a decent 4x6" print.  Nothing more.

The biggest problem was to get a shot [a] through the crowd, and [b] 
with just trees in the background, so as to lose the "citified" 
look.  Cabling and structural steel were just about everywhere.

Given a 3 to 4 minute window of time, the gear on hand and the lousy 
location, I'm pretty happy with them.

In all, Photokina was a fun experience, and we hope to go back in 
2008 and (with luck) see the mythical R10 introduced.

Cheers!

---

David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt




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