{"id":2289,"date":"2011-09-23T06:15:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/2011\/09\/23\/9232011-great-blue-portraits\/"},"modified":"2011-09-23T06:15:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:15:53","slug":"9232011-great-blue-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"9\/23\/2011: Great Blue Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is nothing so photogenic as a great blue heron\u2026or at least no bird that poses so well! For a digiscoper, trying to capture images through the eyepiece of a spotting scope, that is half the battle. These shots are from a dull, overcast morning in Ohio, a few hundred yards back from the shore of Lake Erie, in the ponds at East Harbor State Park near Port Clinton. I am still learning to use the Nikon Coolpix P300 in this application, and I had a new adapter for the scope as well\u2026so I needed a bird that would sit. I took maybe 35 images of this bird, slowly working my way closer, before the demands of the day pulled me away. It was still sitting where I found it when I left.<\/p>\n

Nikon Coolpix P300 behind the 15-56x Vario eyepiece on the ZEISS DiaScope 65FL spotting scope. 1) about 4500mm equivalent field of view, 1\/30th @ ISO 400, f12 effective (limited by the scope), 2) 1050mm equivalent, 1\/80th @ ISO 400, f4.5 effective (limited by the camera).<\/p>\n

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.<\/p>\n

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