Nature Photos.

[Jackalope]

After getting a DSLR camera for Christmas and taking up hobby photography I figured I'd start a thread to post some of the pics.

Driving to the office this morning I saw this eagle. Unfortunately, he was a long way off so I had to shoot it through a 300 lense and the light quality wasn't that great. Need to get permission to get closer and carry in a tripod.

 

[Jackalope]

A little better

 

[Dustinb80]

Still a neat picture. This should be a good thread.

 

[Gern186]

Good looking photo. I think you should take it to the beach with you also.

 

[Dannmann801]

I predict that with the right equipment and the places you go and shit you get into that we're going to see some pretty cool photos

 

[giles]

Great, now people traveling are going to have to deal with bird watchers and farmers.

 

[Jackalope]

Great, now people traveling are going to have to deal with bird watchers and farmers.

Maybe I'll become some big nature activist and take pics of all the inconsiderate and environmentally unfriendly shit farmers do. I bet a before and after of a fencerow being cut out to plant an extra row of corn would be telling on a billboard in Columbus. Or algae infested creek devoid of life due to excessive nitrate runoff. Or get pictures of the rolling fog of improperly applied anhydrous ammonia wafting across hundreds of acres. Maybe get in good and go undercover on crop damage permits to film countless gutshots.

Or.. Now hear me out... Or, i could just take some pictures of eagles and shit.

 

[giles]

Maybe I'll become some big nature activist and take pics of all the inconsiderate and environmentally unfriendly shit farmers do. I bet a before and after of a fencerow being cut out to plant an extra row of corn would be telling on a billboard in Columbus. Or algae infested creek devoid of life due to excessive nitrate runoff. Or get pictures of the rolling fog of improperly applied anhydrous ammonia wafting across hundreds of acres. Maybe get in good and go undercover on crop damage permits to film countless gutshots.

Or.. Now hear me out... Or, i could just take some pictures of eagles and shit.

We have a member that has the shit pictures covered.

 

[Jackalope]

We have a member that has the shit pictures covered.

So eagles it is then..

 

[giles]

Back on track. I was driving up north last weekend and seen one in the river eating something. That would’ve been a sweet picture!

 

[Jackalope]

Back on track. I was driving up north last weekend and seen one in the river eating something. That would’ve been a sweet picture!

It was probably trash, filthy birds. America should have gone with the osprey, way more badass.

 

[giles]

It was probably trash, filthy birds. America should have gone with the osprey, way more badass.

Anchorage municipalities dump is covered in bald eagles. About made me sick the first time I seen it. Hundred of birds living on trash.

 

[OO2]

Awesome pictures, I look forward to following along.

Have you discovered a way to get the shutter to be quieter with the 300 lens? Mine on the Nikon is worrisome for close pictures of wildlife

 

[Sgt Fury]

 

[Jackalope]

Awesome pictures, I look forward to following along.

Have you discovered a way to get the shutter to be quieter with the 300 lens? Mine on the Nikon is worrisome for close pictures of wildlife

Not sure there's much you can do beside delay the flip of the mirror back by holding the button set in "quiet" mode. Still happens but you get to decide when it does by releasing the button.

 

[Sgt Fury]

 

[Jackalope]

Oh man, that's some cool pics.. Check this out

 

[giles]

Haha, how tall are you now, joe?

 

[Archertl]

Some lenses are quieter than others. it partly has to do if the lens motor is in the lens or uses your camera body drive to auto focus lens. Some lens also have noisier apertures than others. Older lenses with lens motors are definitely the noisiest. You cant do much about the shutter type noise except hold it in quite mode like joe said. I have not found that it bothers birds or deer very much.

Long range wildlife photography is hard especially without a bipod. The goats were moving fast and i was shooting off rocks. 350 nikkor lens

I used my fixed 50mm lens to take this picture on a foggy morning in germany. The 50mm is one of my most used lenses because it is compact and very versatile. Mine also has a big aperture so you can really play with light.

 

[Clay Showalter]

Couple of my favorites from our Wyoming trip last January