Fabulous. Beautiful shot.
Paul
On May 31, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Christian Skofteland wrote:
Yes, it's another bird....
http://home.mindspring.com/~c_skofteland/id19.html
The details: Two weeks ago, I decided to quit my job and take a week
off
before the new one starts (my wife says I change job more often than I
change underwear...). The first day off (Monday) I decided to wander
around
the lake and photograph the wildlife. What a day! Two kingfishers
were
buzzing around catching fish. A sandpiper-like bird was running
around a
mud flat, a great blue heron stopped in for some fishing. And about
four or
five green herons joined the fray along with wood ducks, mallards,
tons of
other birds and the ubiquitous Canada geese. Sadly, all were way out
of
range of my 300mm w/1.4x TC (except the geese and mallards, but I'm
sick of
them). I have about 90 pictures with 95% showing little dots that are
birds... I thought I could crop them but the detail was lost.
However, the
little guy in this week's PAW landed close enough to get some good
shots.
shot with the D, Sigma AF 300mm F4 APO Macro and Sigma EX 1.4x TC
mounted on
a tripod. ISO 200, F5.6 @1/160. Shot RAW and converted to TIFF with
Pentax
PhotoLab. Slight crop and sharpening in PS 7.0.
Christian Skofteland
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