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I was up there a couple weeks ago, only had a few hours of decent light but did
OK ... here are four shots from the digital camera, I like the film shots better but haven't posted any of them yet (another digital advantage, easy to get jpegs for the web). http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/eagles_digital/ Bill |
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Bill Hilton wrote:
I was up there a couple weeks ago, only had a few hours of decent light but did OK ... here are four shots from the digital camera, I like the film shots better but haven't posted any of them yet (another digital advantage, easy to get jpegs for the web). http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/eagles_digital/ NICE work, Bill! Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." |
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Bill Hilton wrote:
I was up there a couple weeks ago, only had a few hours of decent light but did OK ... here are four shots from the digital camera, I like the film shots better but haven't posted any of them yet (another digital advantage, easy to get jpegs for the web). http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/eagles_digital/ Bill Bill, Beautiful photos. Were all these taken during your 20 minutes or so of sunlight? I assume all with your 500mm, and Rue windo mount? Roger |
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From: "Roger N. Clark
Bill, Beautiful photos. Thanks Roger. I sent you a link to these the day I got back from Homer but I think that's when we were dropping emails. Were all these taken during your 20 minutes or so of sunlight? I had about 3 hours of good light the first afternoon and got the flight shot and the immature shot on the beach, where people were tossing frozen herring to the eagles. The next morning there was sweet diffused light for a short time (maybe 20-30 minutes) and that's when I got the two closeups, as these birds ate fish tossed by the Eagle Lady and then, luckily for me as I wasn't allowed into her compound, perched where I could approach them in the car with the light behind me. Then the weather closed down again with dull clouds ... I went out that afternoon and the next morning but didn't shoot a single frame. I would have stayed if it were snowing but couldn't see the point of shooting in what I consider bad light. I assume all with your 500mm, and Rue window mount? First one is with the 500 f/4 from the car (Wimberley Sidekick on an A-S B1 with the Rue Groofwin), third one with the 500 and 1.4x from the car, both the second morning. Flight shot with a 70-200 f/2.8 handheld (exif says 145 mm), immature bird from a tripod with the 500 as I approached closely on the beach, where it was perched on a snag after feeding. I liked the film shots of the birds in flight a bit better since my EOS-3 has faster autofocus and shorter shutter lag than the 10D, and the film shots had nice saturation, but the digital had several advantages too, especially quick feedback, ability to shoot at higher ISO without grain (these were iso 200), the 1.6x factor is nice for wildlife, and lower contrast is nice for birds with white heads and black bodies. I think if I had something like the 1D Mark II, 8 Mpixels with fast autofocus and 8.5 frames/second, I'd quit using 35 mm film for wildlife, or at least for birds in flight. Bill |
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Nice work indeed
"Bill Hilton" wrote in message ... I was up there a couple weeks ago, only had a few hours of decent light but did OK ... here are four shots from the digital camera, I like the film shots better but haven't posted any of them yet (another digital advantage, easy to get jpegs for the web). http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/eagles_digital/ Bill |
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Bill:
Very nice work. Thanks for sharing. I am interested in exposure particularly for the flight shot. Did you compensate for exposure or did you let the 10D just run with evaluative metering. I think Arthur Morris sometimes recommends metering the sky above the horizon and setting exposure manually. Thanks, Tom |
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I have Artie's chart and it has improved my exposure no end.
regards Don from Down Under "Bill Hilton" wrote in message ... From: (Tom Keenan) Bill: Very nice work. Thanks for sharing. Glad you liked them! I am interested in exposure particularly for the flight shot. Did you compensate for exposure or did you let the 10D just run with evaluative metering. Evaluative with -0.5 stop compensation, to try to keep from burning out the white head feathers. I remember checking the histogram to make sure I was as far right as I could go without clipping. On the head shots of the sitting birds I liked my EOS-3 better since I could spot meter off the white and open up enough in manual mode to get *exactly* what I wanted (the 10D doesn't have a spot mode) but for the flight shots checking the histogram worked well, though I did burn out a couple of heads with the light at a different angle even with -0.5. BTW the flight shot shown was with a 70-200 f/2.8 L at 145 mm, f/5.6 @ 1/760th sec @ ISO 200 (per the exif data, another nice digital feature). I missed a lot of flight shots with the digital due to relatively slow AF but this bird flared out a bit, slowing down enough for me to get him. I mentioned that I liked the film shots better, mainly because I got better flight shots since the EOS-3 has faster autofocus than the 10D, but after this trip I bit the bullet and bought a 1Ds and haven't shot much 35 mm film since. Being able to preview the shots at night on a laptop is very useful. I'd like to go back next winter with a 1D Mark II I think Arthur Morris sometimes recommends metering the sky above the horizon and setting exposure manually. I didn't want to set it manually since the eagles were coming in from different directions (and different lighting) so I just underexposed a bit. A couple of the other shots from different angles did burn out on the white feathers so I didn't do as well as I should have. Art has a useful chart showing how much to compensate from evaluative metering depending on the subject and I basically tried to do that (though I don't have the chart). Bill |
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