My plan this week was to share some of the photos from our trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway but a big bird came calling today and it was just too cool so I have to share.
As I was headed to get cleaned up after mowing the lawn today, my wife yelled for me to come look at a big bird that had landed about 100 yards away from our house in an empty field. I got my camera and stepped out onto the porch hoping that between the reach of the lens and a little cropping I could see what it was. To my surprise it took off and flew right toward me turning at about 10 to 15 feet away.
I had the camera running with multi-point auto focus at first and then switch to a center point only. (This is one of the great, easy to use features I love with my Canon.) I can't even tell you if I was on single shot or multi-shot for the shutter because for some reason I never tried continuous shooting.
Enjoy a little bit of nature from my front yard!!
All shots taken with a Canon Rebel T4i and a Tamron 18-270 lens
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| 1/400, f/7.1, ISO 200, 270mm |
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1/400, f/7.1, ISO 200, 270mm
This is the below picture cropped a little tighter |
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| 1/400, f/7.1, ISO 200, 270mm |
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| 1/250, f/7.1, ISO 100, 91mm |
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| 1/320, f/8, ISO 100, 91mm |
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| 1/320, f/8, ISO 100, 91mm |
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| 1/320, f/6.3, ISO 200, 218mm |
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| 1/320, f/6.3, ISO 200, 218mm |
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1/320, f/6.3, ISO 250, 218mm
This shot edited using Picasa's Lomo-ish tool |
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| 1/400, f/6.3, ISO 320, 270mm |
