Well I was just driving along minding my own business when I saw this
guy out of the corner of my eye, in a pond not 20 feet from the road.
Of course when I got out to the car to take his portrait, he immediately
flew to the opposite side of the pond, but a little patience was
rewarded when he caught a fat fish.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20successful.html
Now the bad part, I shot half the images at really high ISO with an
extra stop of exposure dialed in because I forgot to reset everything
after using the camera yesterday. Even after correcting the ISO issue,
I didn't notice the extra stop of exposure until after I finished
shooting, so I blew out all the whites, (shooting a white bird, go
figure). Finally in spite the fact that not only did the bird appear to
be in focus in the viewfinder, and the center spot AF gave a nice green
glow to the hexagonal focus confirmation spot anytime I placed it
squarely on bird, the best focus is still about a foot in front of the
bird. How the heck are you supposed to correct for front focus in a
manual focus lens anyway...
So I processed the image with a faux Kodachrome 200 look using DXO
Filmpack, because heck, with Kodachrome almost no one managed to not
blow out the whites.
Equipment: Pentax K5II w/smc Pentax A*300mm f4.0.
As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.
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