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Old 05-25-2010, 04:11 PM   #1
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Saw this great blue heron while both of us were fishing Lake Wentworth. He caught a fish and took off barely giving me time to switch to my telephoto lens.
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Old 05-30-2010, 08:30 AM   #2
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Very nice capture.
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Thanks Airedale. I'm finding it quite a challenge to get the type of focus I see in your images. I only might might get one good image out of many attempts. I'm usually shooting from my boat while fishing. So I shoot handheld and on a slightly moving platform. Any tips you might offer on how to increase my chances of that perfect capture would be appreciated.
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Nice shot. I followed your Heron down Rt 109 today on the way home through Melvin Village. I could actually see him/her moving it's head side to side. like it was looking for a place to land. It was just above the tree tops. Saw it over the Pine Cone at around 4pm.
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Thanks Airedale. I'm finding it quite a challenge to get the type of focus I see in your images. I only might might get one good image out of many attempts. I'm usually shooting from my boat while fishing. So I shoot handheld and on a slightly moving platform. Any tips you might offer on how to increase my chances of that perfect capture would be appreciated.

What are you using?
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Hi Airedale. Thanks for responding. I shoot with a Canon EOS XSi, Canon EF-S 75-250 5.6 lens. Manual exposure, auto focus and stabilizer on. Most opportunities are early AM under lower light conditions.
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Hi Airedale. Thanks for responding. I shoot with a Canon EOS XSi, Canon EF-S 75-250 5.6 lens. Manual exposure, auto focus and stabilizer on. Most opportunities are early AM under lower light conditions.
Try setting your auto focus to AI for anything that is moving. Great Blue Herons flap their wings relatively slowly, a shutter speed of 1/500 sec is good to freeze them. Practice panning too.

I took this one back in 2006 with a 20D and 400 f/5.6. I took it in Av Mode ISO 100 1/800 sec around 2:00 in the afternoon.



Around here unless they are fixated on prey, Great Blue Herons are hard to approach.

This one taken last year, had a visual lock on a fish and was very approachable.

40D Av Mode ISO 100 1/200 sec with the same lens



Getting a good picture of a Great Blue Heron is always a challenge here in NH.

I went down to Florida in April and captured this Tri-colored Heron portrait, they are so much more approachable down there.

Av Mode ISO 400 1/200 sec with 40D and 400 f/5.6 lens



I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask me anytime for advice, always glad to try to help.
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Great shots Paul.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post. I'll give that a try and let you know how it works out.
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