i was really busy moving house from one side of town to the other, but i did
manage to take Memorial Day weekend off to go and take some pictures of
nesting great blue herons and other sights in the Adirondack Mountains of
New York.
http://users.bestweb.net/~hchong/Seasonal/
all taken in the Adirondacks. all of the heron shots were taken with an
A*400/2.8 with a 1.7X extender. most of the heron images are full frame. the
birds were about 60 yards away in the middle of a drowned forest. the
sunsets required gradient ND filters. the waterfalls used a B+W 6-stop ND
filter plus a polarizing filter. two of the waterfall shots are stacked
exposures to capture the full dynamic range. i didn't have Photoshop CS2
when i created the images for posting, so i did it using my Optipix plugins,
which are almost as convenient. nowadays, i would use Merge to HDR instead.
Herb....
