{"id":3519,"date":"2013-02-21T07:15:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2013-02-21T07:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T12:15:29","slug":"spoonbill-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Spoonbill Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This year the Roseate Spoonbills at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge were simply not as cooperative as in past years when I visited in January. I saw a couple flyovers, and found one group feeding\u2026but they were only a few, and they were way in the back of a pond on the second half of the loop. Of course maybe it was just my timing, but I did manage to get out both early and late. <\/p>\n

And I did have my digiscoping rig with me, so I was able to get decent shots even with the birds at a distance. This was taken with the Sony Rx100 behind the 15-56x Vario Eyepiece on the ZEISS DiaScope 65FL spotting scope. Using both the zoom on the camera and the zoom on the spotting scope resulted in about a 3000mm equivalent field of view. That is a lot of reach. 1\/100th @ ISO 125. Program mode. f18 effective (f5.6 on the camera). <\/p>\n

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

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