Nice work, Chuck. That bright Florida sun made it hard, also. The one
flapping his wings appears to be about ready to test them.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:51 PM
Subject: [OM] Bald eagle juveniles at Little Manatee River, Ruskin, Florida
>I finally got up the road apiece to take some photos of the bald eagle
> juveniles in Ruskin, FL. They're not chicks any more but neither are
> they quite ready to fly yet. But as you can see from the photos they
> are working on trying out their wings.
>
> I haven't done this sort of shooting for many, many years and discovered
> that I was woefully unprepared from a lens standpoint. I think I needed
> at least 500mm and maybe even 1000. I shot these photos using my Tokina
> 80-200 at 200mm and f/5.6 with a Kenko 1.5X converter for an effective
> focal length of 300mm and effective aperture of f/8. Shutter speed was
> 1/800 at ISO 400. Maybe the photos would have been better at 1/1600 at
> ISO 800.
>
> The first image shows the full frame of one of the shots at 300mm. The
> remaining images are crops at 4x5 ratio of approx. 20% of the frame.
> The image quality can't withstand enlargement beyond that. Fairly soft
> due, I suppose, to lens/multiplier quality, wind (10-15 mph breeze) and
> vibration... no mirror lock and no sandbags. The birds were so far away
> that my viewing angle on the tripod was fairly shallow and I never did
> need the 90 degree Minolta finder I mentioned recently.
>
> I never did see the parents. The Little Manatee River is off to the
> left about 200 yards so I assume mom & dad were off fishing there to
> feed the youngsters.
>
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Bald%20eagle%20juveniles/index.htm>
>
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