Gone Fishing

Posted by biologist on Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:13 pm

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Here is a juvenile BCNH.. My what a big fish he has!!
Might not be able to see teh catch light in teh eyes, but the original looks much better.. I have to work on rescanning this one.

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Nikon N90s
Nikkor 300mm F/4.0
Provia 100F
Fill Flash

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by Greg Downing on Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:16 pm

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This IS a big fish! It's a nice action shot but too bad you did not have better light. A little flash would have helped and lowering the ambient could have reduced the distracting reflections from the water. I can just make out the catchlight

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by Juan A. Pons on Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:26 pm

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Nice capture, but I agree with Greg, you would have had a much better image had the light been more favorable. However sometimes images like these are great behavioral records, I actually have many mane that are not technically perfect but show some interesting feature, behaviour or environment.

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by biologist on Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:29 pm

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I have some other ones after the bird moved out of the water, so the light is not as bad.
Will look for them and see how they look after I scan them...

This was one of those opportunities that I was there and had not seen this before and just had to shoot some film of the bird fishing. Especially since this is a pretty large bird.

Thanks Eric

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by Anthony Medici on Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:01 pm

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As everyone has already mentioned, the background glare is a bit rough. Great action though.

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by AlexC on Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:26 pm

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Here, your worse enemy is the light, Even Houdini would have had trouble salvaging this image, But we can still view the action of the Heron with the fish!!

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by Chip Estabrooks on Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:57 pm

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You've heard the comments on the light. Nice capture on the feeding action.
Keep them coming.
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by Richard on Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:37 pm

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I don't know why these guys won't catch the fish in the good light, or on the nice background. And that's a big fish!

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by Andrew Mc on Tue Aug 26, 2003 11:18 pm

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He certainly won't be going hungry with a fish that size. Good action shot.

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by Juli Wilcox on Thu Aug 28, 2003 6:55 am

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I like the action and the feather pattern on the back of the bird. Depending on what you would like to accomplish with this type of photo, you might consider opening up your lens to a wider aperture to blow out the BG a bit and cause the viewer to focus more on the bird and action, bracing on a strong support, trying flash as others have suggested. Not all the details are listed here, but total control of each of those variables will produce sharper images generally speaking.

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