{"id":1894,"date":"2011-02-11T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/11\/2112011-big-and-easy-gbh\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T11:39:16","slug":"2112011-big-and-easy-gbh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"2\/11\/2011: Big and easy, GBH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A fellow wildlife photographer posted a Great Blue Heron on his Facebook page yesterday with a comment to the effect that \u201csometimes you have to take the easy shots.\u201d <\/p>\n

Always! Always you have to take the easy shots. I don\u2019t believe in a vindictive fate, like \u201cif you don\u2019t shoot the easy shots when they are offered, then you won\u2019t get anymore!\u201d, but I do believe in embracing the gift when it is right there in front of you. It would be ungrateful to ignore such generosity.<\/p>\n

So here is yet another Great Blue Heron shot. (And GBHs do figure in a surprising number of the gift shots\u2026go figure \ud83d\ude42 \u2026big and easy bird that it is\u2026always seemingly posing.) In this shot, of course, it is the light and reflections on the water behind the bird, and the play of light across the bird, the molding, and the light caught in the eye, as much as the bird itself, that holds interest\u2026that makes the shot.<\/p>\n

Canon SD4000IS behind the 15-56 Vario eyepiece on the ZEISS DiaScope 65FL for the equivalent field of view of about a 2800mm lens, 1\/200th @ ISO 125, effective aperture of f7.5. <\/p>\n

Processed for clarity and sharpness in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

And the more pulled back, contextual bonus shot at something closer to 1000mm equivalent field of view.<\/p>\n

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