Photos '10

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:43 pm

from FlyCorner

jomeder · Post by **jomeder** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:10 am

Just to torment those kept in by winter, this was Christmas morning. 29ºC. The joke was on me a bit though, as all the fish have dropped down out of this river now, the flow is very low. Still, it's a pretty nice location and I was treated to a fascinating display of underwater swimming by some ducklings, the photos of which didn't come out unfortunately.

Kakahi · Post by **Kakahi** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:30 am

I've been skulking around in the shadows today...

Eventually I want to get this guy eating a fly, right smack in the foreground

I had the camera set up on a camouflaged boom with a tripod head attatched. Had to use manual focus, so it was a bit of a lottery. I got a couple of good ones

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:08 am

You'll pay for that Jo... it's coming back around.

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:24 am

I've been playing with my new tele lens. Sadly not the 70-200L, but 55-250 IF-S. The thing is gonna turn me into a birder! Already got shots of house finches, black phoebes, crows, and turkey buzzards. Gotta learn to manage the depth of field though. Wow... didn't realize it would get this narrow.

JanMan · Post by **JanMan** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:23 pm

Congrats on your new lens, Eric - you'll have a lot of fun with it!

FlyCorner · Post by **FlyCorner** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:29 pm

Eric wrote:I've been playing with my new tele lens. Sadly not the 70-200L, but 55-250 IF-S. The thing is gonna turn me into a birder! Already got shots of house finches, black phoebes, crows, and turkey buzzards. Gotta learn to manage the depth of field though. Wow... didn't realize it would get this narrow.

Yeah, congrats. That's a very decent lens.

I bought a AT-X D 80-400 for my tele-play.

Eric · Post by **Eric** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:09 am

It's pretty cool for sure. The IS is really incredible, looking through and seeing my jittering then pressing the button to see it all smooth is pretty damn awesome. Can't really squeeze fly shots out of it so still need a macro but getting there.

mustang_50matt · Post by **mustang_50matt** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:38 am

My favorite seagull

An Griannach · Post by **An Griannach** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:49 pm

Kakahi wrote:I've been skulking around in the shadows today...

Eventually I want to get this guy eating a fly, right smack in the foreground

I had the camera set up on a camouflaged boom with a tripod head attatched. Had to use manual focus, so it was a bit of a lottery. I got a couple of good ones

Is it just me or is that fish huge?
Class shot!

Kakahi · Post by **Kakahi** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:29 am

Thanks An

The fish is probably about 4lb.
Been back again today in search of that shot. Trying to get a shot of a feeding fish, low perspective, wide angle with a horizon.
I need a laptop loaded up with the EOS remote capture software to help eliminate the lottery factor, eg horizon and framing on the piss

Marc LaMouche · Post by **Marc LaMouche** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:36 am

a bubble level wouldn't hurt either

Kakahi · Post by **Kakahi** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:24 am

Marc LaMouche wrote:a bubble level wouldn't hurt either

That's way too flash for us Kiwis 'bro.

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:32 am

Double posting, sorry!

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:33 am

You kiwi's have it soooo good mate, never forget that..
Minus f@cking nine over here, every thing frozen over, so no fishing. Ice ruined by snow so now speedskating, and the rods slippery as hell, so biking out of the question.
What other to do than teach our young'un some new pointing tricks with the Hegendorff rod, an old piece of spinning rod, some braid and a pheasant wing. It teaches her the first basics of pointing. First they have to get the fix on sight, then we move on to teaching them to find game on the nose.

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