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Brother Heron
Brother Heron
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Challenge: Fauna (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: Trappest Abbey in LaFayette Oregon
Date: Apr 19, 2003
Aperture: F4
Shutter: 1/50
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2003

While staying at an abbey in Oregon I saw "brother" heron standing at the edge of a nearby pond. I went for a closer look and when he decided I was too close he took flight. I had to shoot quickly without thinking about composition. I thought the result were quite nice, especially the motion of his wings.

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04/30/2003 11:55:07 AM
Originally posted by Ricky Cleave:

they always fly of before you can get close enough. are you sure its not a stork?


I can assure you this is a Blue Heron, one of my favorites. Unfortunately my shutter speed was a bit too slow to stop the slower forward movement and put him in better focus but I kinda like the blurred effect. Thanks for all the comments on my first submission!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2003 05:02:54 PM
This is a good attempt at a still action shot. However, the entire bird is blurry. A faster shutter speed would take the blurr out. Do you have manual controls on your camera. If you have sufficient light on your subject (here, the bird appears to be in the shadow of the trees, so there might not be), you can increase your shutter speed to stop the action, but you let in less light. I\'m assuming that by being a beginner to photography that you might have been in automatic mode. If so, the camera adjusted itself to the lack of light by lowering the shutter speed, thereby causing the bird to be blurred in the course of his flight. Even if the bird\'s wings are blurred, the photo would be more effective if it\'s head, tail and legs were more in focus. By the way, I like the reflection of the bird in the water at the bottom of the picture. I hope this helps...I\'m kind of a beginner myself, so someone with more experience could probably explain it better.
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04/28/2003 01:38:10 PM
shame about the focus
04/27/2003 02:43:30 PM
yipes! superb bird to take a shot of, but he's both flying away from you and way out of focus. :(
04/27/2003 01:20:02 AM
the blurry effect doesn't work well for this image, a sharper image may have created a better effect
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04/26/2003 05:25:05 PM
This realy needed a faster shutter speed. A little motion in the wings is fine by me, but the whole bird is just a blur here. You might have gotten away with panning if the bird's motion had been perpendicualr to the lens, but for a static shot this just won't work.
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04/25/2003 08:24:57 PM
they always fly of before you can get close enough. are you sure its not a stork?
04/25/2003 06:01:45 PM
From-behind photography again, it's those darn wild animals! Nice motion though, would have liked to see the head properly! - 6
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04/25/2003 01:36:25 PM
too blurry
04/25/2003 01:18:47 PM
Would have been great if the subject is in focus and to see its head.
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04/25/2003 09:57:07 AM

good job
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04/23/2003 06:45:45 PM
I had to keep coming back to this one to tell if I like it or not. I do like the movement and I almost wish the beak was more out of focus. I'm still in the air about the cropping though, can't tell if I would make it tighter or not. One thing this photo did do was capture my attention, so points for that!
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04/23/2003 10:03:59 AM
good job
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04/23/2003 01:44:10 AM
Feels blurry not because of action but just because it's blurry.


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