Birds and Water

An acquaintance guided myself and a few others for a couple of outings last weekend. It was nice to go with a small group for some shooting time, and a chance to try and tame the beast! (see previous post).

Last Saturday we went to Howland Falls near Bear Island. A nice falls just off the road, about 45 km west of Fredericton. I can see myself going back on a cloudy day for some long shutter shots!

Howland Falls - Bear Island Area

On Sunday we headed out in the other direction to look for Osprey! About 60km east gets you to the Gagetown Ferry Road in Jemseg, where a number of platforms have been erected to keep the Osprey from building nests on the real power poles. I will be going back soon when the chicks have hatched – apparently you can catch much more fishing action!

The new lens performed well, and for my first time with the lens, and shooting birds – I was happy with the results. I was mainly shooting at 640 ISO, and an aperture of f/5.6 or f/8, and a shutter speed around 1/800th sec. I also had my Tamron 1.4x teleconverter attached to give me an equivalent view on my Canon 50D of a 157-

Osprey - Along the Ferry Road

448mm f/4 IS lens. I was shooting in Evaluative metering mode, with AI Servo autofocus mode, and 3 frames per second drive mode, in aperture priority mode.

My main lenses now are the Tokina 12-24mm f/4, Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, and Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS. I now realize that I have no large diameter ND filters…..oh well back to E -Bay!