Thanks, Jim. I think the lighting would have been better about an hour
later but... that's dinner time for photographers. I'm certainly not a
dedicated wildlife photographer. :-)
I'd would try again if I had a longer lens. My guesstimate is the the
observing spot beside the highway is about 75-100 yards from the birds.
Given the size of the nest mom & dad have been working on it for a
number of years. I have a 500/5.6 mirror lens at home that could use
some dusting off for next year.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/6/2012 5:17 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Nice work, Chuck. That bright Florida sun made it hard, also. The one
> flapping his wings appears to be about ready to test them.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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> From: "Chuck Norcutt"<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:51 PM
> Subject: [OM] Bald eagle juveniles at Little Manatee River, Ruskin, Florida
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>> I finally got up the road apiece to take some photos of the bald eagle
>> juveniles in Ruskin, FL. They're not chicks any more but neither are
>> they quite ready to fly yet. But as you can see from the photos they
>> are working on trying out their wings.
>>
>> I haven't done this sort of shooting for many, many years and discovered
>> that I was woefully unprepared from a lens standpoint. I think I needed
>> at least 500mm and maybe even 1000. I shot these photos using my Tokina
>> 80-200 at 200mm and f/5.6 with a Kenko 1.5X converter for an effective
>> focal length of 300mm and effective aperture of f/8. Shutter speed was
>> 1/800 at ISO 400. Maybe the photos would have been better at 1/1600 at
>> ISO 800.
>>
>> The first image shows the full frame of one of the shots at 300mm. The
>> remaining images are crops at 4x5 ratio of approx. 20% of the frame.
>> The image quality can't withstand enlargement beyond that. Fairly soft
>> due, I suppose, to lens/multiplier quality, wind (10-15 mph breeze) and
>> vibration... no mirror lock and no sandbags. The birds were so far away
>> that my viewing angle on the tripod was fairly shallow and I never did
>> need the 90 degree Minolta finder I mentioned recently.
>>
>> I never did see the parents. The Little Manatee River is off to the
>> left about 200 yards so I assume mom& dad were off fishing there to
>> feed the youngsters.
>>
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Bald%20eagle%20juveniles/index.htm>
>>
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