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salv said:
Dom_, That is an absolutely incredible shot, I love it! How close
were you when you took that shot?
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Thanks for the compliment :)

I was at ~ 20 feet ! This bird is very cooperative letting me approach him at ~ 10 feet like you can see me here in action , photo taken by my friend Claude Fortin.

I should approach very slowly , laying on the ground , I appear smaller in this position ( but it's not a fact ;)) )



here's a kind of picture I can do at this distance ( no crop ! )



Thanks again !

Dom :)

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Dominic Cantin
http://www.pbase.com/dominiccantin
http://www.spacew.com/gallery/DominicCantin ( 350 images )
 
Friday sat in the car, wound down the passenger window and took this hand held sitting in driver's seat.



PENTAX K10D, Software used: PENTAX PHOTO Laboratory Ver. 3.10
Exposure time: 1/15th - F number: 6.7, ISO: 400, Lens focal length: 500

A really god advert for SR, except it was off!



PENTAX K10D, PENTAX PHOTO Laboratory Ver. 3.10

Exposure time: 1/500th, F number: 6.7, ISO speed rating: 400, Exposure bias: 0.5, Lens focal length: 500

http://freespace.virgin.net/fire.storms/3mar07/index.html

OK it is another Kingfisher (or likely to be the same as photographed before) and already posted - however I really got close this time :)



PENTAX K10D, PENTAX PHOTO Laboratory Ver. 3.10, Exposure time: 1/1000th, F number: 11, ISO speed rating: 400, Exposure bias: -1

http://freespace.virgin.net/fire.storms/3mar07/

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J.
 
Thanks guys. At first I wasn't getting much use out of my 50-200, but since the weather has improved, I've been discovering many fun things I'd never imagined before I had a telephoto.

Bart
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http://www.pbase.com/zumbari
 
Hi Walter,
i still like this shot,very well done!

leopold
pentax forever
 
On vacation in Puerto Rico… This iguana was moving pretty fast, but slowed down for a second so I could get his mug shot (should have used more DOF… oh well).
1/125 sec, f5, ISO200, 63mm, P mode



Not totally wild, I guess… This lorikeet is from the San Diego Wild Animal Park (at least they call them wild).
1/60sec, f4.5, ISO800, 70mm, P mode



This guy was cruising around the harbor in Gloucester, MA (home).
1/1000sec, f4.5, ISO125, 70mm, Tv mode



And finally…

This is pretty close to a 100% crop of a kestrel (I guess) in the Everglades (sharpened in LR).
1/320sec, f13, ISO200, 70mm, Sv mode



All of these were taken with my K10D and lonely Sigma 17-70. Gotta spring for that zoom telephoto one of these days - if I could only decide on which one… I’m thinking maybe I’ll wait for the Pentax 70-300 if I can hold out that long (not sure I can).

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  • Doug
 
Doug, that's amazing, I have the Sig17-70 and wouldn't even have thought to try it for wildlife, man how'd ya get that close to the Kestrel ( they look alot different then the ones I see here in Canada) .

Very well done, likeem all and I, personally, often shoot for a nice creamy background, bokeh as they say, it isolates the lizard so well.
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Jerry
http://www.pbase.com/tocarver
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It's always rewarding and intense to see a thight close-up of an animal,like these.
Golden Eagle and Red Fox(taken in a Zoo)
DS2,FA300mm4.5 with TC 1.4X-S,at f/5.6,ISO200,tripod





But don't forget that you can take the wildlife in their habitat,and it shows what they have to endue everyday,cold,rain,snow,sun...

Two example:

Here it looks cold:duck in St-Laurence River.
DS2,SMC Takumar 200mmf/4,ISO 200,at f/11-16,tripod,MLU



Here warmer.
Same settings but with Super Takumar 150mmf/4



leopold
pentax forever
 
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