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[canon eos]

I got another series of the Osprey bringing fish back to the nesting platform. In this he flew against a backdrop of grey cloud, for a different effect (and challenging exposure!).



The Beaver pond always has different things going on, and there were a lot of Bullfrogs hatching this spring.
I caught this one poking his head up from the pond vegetation.........




Thank you for any input or comments.

[Clip]

Very Cool photographs!

[hawkhenries]

Great pic's. Love the frog! The detail in the floating plants really adds nice textural and color balance....

[canon eos]

Thank you.
The multiplication of the 400mm lens, giving 640eq with the T2i 1.6 factor makes it impossible to know what you are really getting, until you start to some photo editing. And then things begin to unfold.......

[lonestranger]

Beautiful captures, canon eos. That bullfrog shot is stunning.

[JimB]

Nice flight shot of the Osprey, I like the grey sky, it adds some drama to the image and the fish is an added bonus. the frog shot works well with the subject centered in the frame...great eye contact also!

[jetmedix]

Love the frog shot!

[canon eos]

Nice flight shot of the Osprey, I like the grey sky, it adds some drama to the image and the fish is an added bonus. the frog shot works well with the subject centered in the frame...great eye contact also!

Thanks, Jim.
I was following its flight against a featureless sky when some nice clouds came into view and allowed this backdrop. The distance was perhaps 300ft so it is a compromise image.

[canon eos]

Love the frog shot!

Thank you. I learned years ago to keep my eyes open and alert to what's around you, and it's not always the obvious.

[hawkhenries]

Thanks, Jim.
I was following its flight against a featureless sky when some nice clouds came into view and allowed this backdrop. The distance was perhaps 300ft so it is a compromise image.

Would you speak a little about what this means.Thanks...

[canon eos]

Would you speak a little about what this means.Thanks...

I suspect you are referring to the compromise!
I was using partial metering but at this distance it's quite challenging to get things right as even spot metering would pick up much more than the Osprey. There are so many elements at play. The sunlight was actually to my back, so the Osprey should have been better illuminated, but the particular type of cloud (you would have loved this cloud on its own, Hawk!) had a luminescence that fooled the metering. I shoot in RAW so was able to pull this much out, fairly successfully.
Some will advocate manual exposure. I grew up with manual everything(!) and can handle it well, but whether manual or Auto there are enough variables when shooting BIF that I full welcome (and endorse!) the 'automation' in our very advanced digital cameras.