[LRflex] Re: IMG: Ruffed Grouse
- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:17:20 -0700
Great shot, Doug, but where is the banana slug? You had the right lens on
the camera.....
:-)
Aram
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From: "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:29 PM
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Subject: [LRflex] IMG: Ruffed Grouse
> This weekend I made a quick trip (for family) to Brookings Oregon, on the
> Pacific coast just north of the California/Oregon border. While there I
> found a female Ruffed Grouse who was far more tolerant of a camo-clad
> photographer than I expected:
>
> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/phasianidae/rugrou00.html
>
> The background was a bit difficult to work with because of the clutter of
> the leaf litter on the forest floor; also the grouse' preferred habitat is
> the dense understory of the Pacific Northwest's temperate rain forest, so
> getting a clear view of the bird meant getting really really close with an
> ultrawide-angle lens (100mm APO in this case). Now, about the
> background... I wanted a darker background behind the bird's head, which
> in this particular case was more distant. The best way to get the dark
> background was a very low camera angle, which meant on my belly in the
> rain forest with huge banana slugs nearby.
>
> technical stuff: R8/DMR, 100mm APO, slight crop, shoulder stock, heavy
> fog/light drizzle lighting. All comments welcome.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
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