This for me is also a wonderful lesson/example on background questions. Thanks again Doug for all these beautiful photos. Phil...x Douglas Herr wrote: >Today's new bird picture, a common but elusive corvid of western North >America. The Western Scrub Jay is noisy and combatitive when safely out of >range, and comes within range only long enough to grab the crumb that fell >from your sandwich: > >http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/corvidae/wsja02.html > >Alas, I had no sandwich so I got cloe the old-fasioned way: I waited and >wached and melted into the background. > >Technical stuff: R8/DMR, 560mm f/6.8 with UET-R, shoulder stock & monopod. >ISO 400, no noise reduction. Aperture: f/6.8, shutter speed: yes > >All comments welcome. > > >Doug Herr >Birdman of Sacramento >http://www.wildlightphoto.com >------ >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/