I was wondering where you went. The last video I watched was your amazing bear encounter. I loved the deer shots you captured, very sweet with mama and baby together. Beautiful shots of the heron also.
You guys (In America) are extremely lucky with birds. You can get to them in open so close. This year I was in Henderson Swamp LA for couple of hours and got plenty of heron shots. Blue , Great(white) and snowy. In here where I live (central Europe) those birds are extremely shy and vigilant. I cannot approach them in open. I have to wait hours in silence in the hide for them to come to me and even then, even slightest movement or sound may scare them.
Love your videos I have a question if you don't mind how do you determine the correct f-stop, for some of your shots you choose f4 how do you determine that stop Thanks
Interesting you brought that up, my next video will be about exactly that 😊. If I am a good distance (over 50 feet or so) on a small to medium bird I almost always shoot wide open. The larger and thicker the head such as a bear or deer, if I have enough light I will stop down to 5.6 or 6.3 to get more of the head and focus. In my opinion if you have the eye in focus and you have nice bokeh in the background it is a more attractive than stopping down to F8 and having background objects more in focus because they are distracting.
Beautiful. The heron blended in to the rock.
Thank you very much Rich!
I was wondering where you went. The last video I watched was your amazing bear encounter. I loved the deer shots you captured, very sweet with mama and baby together. Beautiful shots of the heron also.
Thank you so much! Yes, I hope to get back on track, going to photograph elk in two weeks, but should have something out before then.
God bless you thank you for sharing your video stay safe today 🙏
Thank you, you as well!
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You guys (In America) are extremely lucky with birds. You can get to them in open so close. This year I was in Henderson Swamp LA for couple of hours and got plenty of heron shots. Blue , Great(white) and snowy. In here where I live (central Europe) those birds are extremely shy and vigilant. I cannot approach them in open. I have to wait hours in silence in the hide for them to come to me and even then, even slightest movement or sound may scare them.
It is very interesting how birds/animals acclimate differently to humans in various regions.
How do you get f/4 from that 200-600mm lens?
I was shooting with my 400 2.8 with a 1.4 teleconverter. I was using the 200-600 for video only on another camera body.
Love your videos I have a question if you don't mind how do you determine the correct f-stop, for some of your shots you choose f4 how do you determine that stop Thanks
Interesting you brought that up, my next video will be about exactly that 😊. If I am a good distance (over 50 feet or so) on a small to medium bird I almost always shoot wide open. The larger and thicker the head such as a bear or deer, if I have enough light I will stop down to 5.6 or 6.3 to get more of the head and focus. In my opinion if you have the eye in focus and you have nice bokeh in the background it is a more attractive than stopping down to F8 and having background objects more in focus because they are distracting.
And thanks for the compliments and I appreciate you watching!