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Bonhomme Richard

(9,000 posts) Sun Oct 20, 2013, 05:42 PM Oct 2013

Breakfast Time

From this mornings outing in the kayak

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Breakfast Time (Original Post) Bonhomme Richard Oct 2013 OP

Black Crowned Night Heron? NYC_SKP Oct 2013 #1

No. It's a Great Blue Heron. Bonhomme Richard Oct 2013 #2

How are you able to get such a great photo Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #3

I learned the hard way missing shots. Bonhomme Richard Oct 2013 #6

Nice shot! Solly Mack Oct 2013 #4

Blue Gill? alfredo Oct 2013 #5

One more Hunting. Bonhomme Richard Oct 2013 #7

Oh a great shot. Lovely. Where are you? enough Oct 2013 #8

Ct Bonhomme Richard Oct 2013 #9

Nice! Blue_In_AK Oct 2013 #10

What an amazing shot! You can feel the texture of the feathers mnhtnbb Oct 2013 #11

Thanks. I miss way more shots than I get. n/t Bonhomme Richard Oct 2013 #12

NYC_SKP

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1. Black Crowned Night Heron?

Reply to Bonhomme Richard (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 05:43 PM

Oct 2013

If so, I had one on my dock this morning, didn't take a pic tho.

Bonhomme Richard

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2. No. It's a Great Blue Heron.

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 05:55 PM

Oct 2013

I think it is a female because it was smaller than most I see.
It let me hang with it for about 45 minutes and I got tons of pictures.

Curmudgeoness

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3. How are you able to get such a great photo

Reply to Bonhomme Richard (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 06:14 PM

Oct 2013

while you are in a kayak? I have never had any luck with pictures taken from any boats, since I can't seem to stabilize the camera enough for those good pictures.

Bonhomme Richard

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6. I learned the hard way missing shots.

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 06:42 PM

Oct 2013

It's all about shutter speed. I go out in the morning and make sure that the rising sun is behind me as I come up on the target. The approach is planned. These shots were taken 250 or 320 ISO with a 5.6 or 6.3 F stop, aperture priority so I can get as fast a shutter speed as I can without a lot of noise.
It is a bit crazy. Your subject is moving and so are you.
I was lucky today. For whatever reason this Heron didn't mind me hanging around at all. I could get within 20' feet and I stayed ready for it to take off which it never did. I probably got 300 shots but what I was waiting for was an up-close take-off flight shot. I could have done something to make it take off but I decided that this bird was so willing to let me enjoy what it was doing then I had no business making it fly off and leave the area. Maybe that Karma will come back though this morning was good karma.