Ákos Lumnitzer
02-17-2009, 05:19 PM
Last August a mate took me to a private property in the Hawkesbury where he set his hide up four days earlier to get some shots of the Sea Eagles as they return to their favorite perch tree overlooking this big lagoon.
We waited for nearly five hours crammed in there and about half an hour prior to this adult’s arrival a gale force wind blew up from the west, blowing in the clouds and making conditions miserable, almost blowing the hide over. This adult perched for about 10 minutes, not in a good spot or position, then took off and flew behind us and I could just shoot a series of images from inside the hide of it gliding past into the headwind as the hide was being blown about incredibly hard by the wind. For hours of patience, I had no more than 20-30 seconds maximum to capture some images under rather difficult conditions.
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30D, 300mm f/4L IS USM, ISO800, f/5.6, 1/250th, handheld, overexposed by 1 2/3 stops, 70% of original. I blackened the pupil a touch.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/3271101021_b07b39f959_o.jpg
We waited for nearly five hours crammed in there and about half an hour prior to this adult’s arrival a gale force wind blew up from the west, blowing in the clouds and making conditions miserable, almost blowing the hide over. This adult perched for about 10 minutes, not in a good spot or position, then took off and flew behind us and I could just shoot a series of images from inside the hide of it gliding past into the headwind as the hide was being blown about incredibly hard by the wind. For hours of patience, I had no more than 20-30 seconds maximum to capture some images under rather difficult conditions.
<O:p</O:p
30D, 300mm f/4L IS USM, ISO800, f/5.6, 1/250th, handheld, overexposed by 1 2/3 stops, 70% of original. I blackened the pupil a touch.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/3271101021_b07b39f959_o.jpg