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Post by ike on Nov 18, 2009 22:52:37 GMT -5
There was a really great photo of a rooster pheasant on the cover of a hunting magazine a few years back and I thought I'd try my hand at it. I discovered that pheasant are hard to capture and us amateurs have a learning curve when entering the professional level on anything............. ike
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Post by bluedogman on Nov 19, 2009 4:50:10 GMT -5
I think you picked a good one to shoot! Beautiful bird! I also agree there is a lot to know and learn to get to the level to produce a cover photo such as the one you mentioned. You would have to have good conditions, good equipment, know how to use it and the ability to do good work with 'Raw' photos after shooting them I would think. You have Photographers and then you have Photographers. Marianna and I take a lot of pictures of all kinds and once in a while get a good one. We are still in the 'People with cameras' class but we enjoy playing with it.
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Post by ike on Nov 19, 2009 8:41:49 GMT -5
Yup, a guy has to understand his equipment even if he has the best. That image was taken with an old F-4 Nikon, which was a professional grade $2500 dollar camera body back in the early 90s. I had a Nikor 300MM lens and a 1.4 magnifier screwed into to that camera body. The camera lens was a 2.8 aperture (one of those big cannons) and the shot was taken with a wide open stop. It took me a long time to understand that if a guy choked down the aperture to F 5.6 or F 8.0 the photos were sharp as a tack, but with the 2.8 setting I about always got this kinda of stuff...............
live and learn? Funny thing was by the time I got better and found photo markets I moved on to hounds and put that camera on the shelf..........
ike
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Post by Houndmomma on Nov 19, 2009 9:46:10 GMT -5
Now you still do both!! You take awesome shots of your dogs and the wildlife you run!!!
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