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Great White Egret in Flight

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June 17, 2010
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I have just finished reviewing images from my recent trip to Orlando and I will be posting some images of birds tomorrow. I figured it is a good time to do it now, since I will be heading back to Orlando next week again. Here is one of my favorite shots:

Great White Egret in Flight

This above image was shot with the Nikon D3s + Nikon 300mm f/4.0 AF-S lens with a Nikon 1.4x TC @ 420mm. To freeze the bird in flight, I had to use a shutter speed of 1/1600 of a second at f/5.6 aperture (wide open with the 1.4x TC). ISO was set to “Auto ISO” with minimum shutter speed set to 1/1600 and maximum ISO set to 6400 and I shot in Aperture Priority mode. As for metering, I used spot metering – my normal metering mode when shooting birds.

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Comments

  1. 1
    ) Игонин Алексей
    June 17, 2010 at 6:40 am

    Здорово стреляете:)

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  2. 4
    ) NikJ
    June 17, 2010 at 9:25 am

    Wow! Nice image!
    Do you leave your camera in one of the contiuous release shooting modes when you are birding?

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    • 3
      ) Nasim Mansurov
      June 17, 2010 at 9:43 am

      Thank you! Absolutely, I have it on Continuous High for the speed, with continuous focus tracking.

      Reply
  3. 5
    ) Dennis
    June 18, 2010 at 7:47 am

    Nice shot! Looking forward to more.

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  4. 6
    ) Alisa-Foodista
    June 20, 2010 at 9:08 am

    First visit to your site and I am hooked! I love photography and learning how to take better pictures. I look forward to reading and learning more from you.

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    • 10
      ) Nasim Mansurov
      June 29, 2010 at 7:45 pm

      Alisa, I apologize for a late response, have been very busy lately. Thank you for your feedback, please do not hesitate to ask any photography-related questions in the comments sections of my articles.

      Thank you for visiting our blog!

      Reply
  5. 7
    ) deana@lostpastremembered
    June 23, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Really spectacular shot… what a great bird!!!!

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  6. 8
    ) Geoff
    June 25, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    That is a great image. I have the 300mm AF-S f/4.0 and really like it as a compact carry around long lens. Your image looks excellent with the x1.4 teleconverter, are you happy with it and have you tried both the x1.7 and the new x2.0? If so what do you think of them?

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    • 12
      ) Nasim Mansurov
      June 29, 2010 at 7:48 pm

      Geoff, thank you! :)

      I am very happy with the 1.4x TC on the 300mm f/4.0. But the 1.7x I am not very thrilled about and it can yield very mixed results, especially on the autofocus side. I wouldn’t want to try the 2.0x on an f/4.0 lens, because autofocus would be useless at f/8.0 and photographing birds in manual focus is too difficult for me…

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