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Ospery Spring 2015
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Ospery Spring 2015

by Peter J. Morrissey

Gallery: AvianPosted April 27, 201578 views1 comments

Hi

It has been a tuff winter here in Conn., but the birds are finely back and I am trying to work the kinks out of my new Tamron 150-600mm lens, it now back at Tamron for the second time. (Problem with Ai servo focus and tracking on my Canon 7D).

This Ospery was shot at Hammonasset Beach State Part in Ct. 

Thank you for stopping by.

File Size            5.8MB

Camera Model            Canon EOS 7D

Firmware            Firmware Version 2.0.3

Shooting Date/Time            04/15/15 10:47:20

Owner's Name           

Shooting Mode            Shutter-Priority AE

Tv(Shutter Speed)            1/1600

Av(Aperture Value)            13

Metering Mode            Center-Weighted Average Metering

Exposure Compensation            0

ISO Speed            400

Auto ISO Speed            OFF

Lens            TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011

Focal Length            552.0mm

Image Size            5184x3456

Image Quality            Fine

Flash            Off

FE lock            OFF

White Balance Mode            Auto

AF Mode            AI Servo AF

Tracking sensitivity            0

AF area select mode            Zone AF

AF Microadjustment            8

Picture Style            User Defined 1(Standard)

Sharpness            4

Contrast            0

Saturation            0

Color tone            0

Color Space            Adobe RGB

Long exposure noise reduction            0:Off

High ISO speed noise reduction            0:Standard

Highlight tone priority            0:Disable

Auto Lighting Optimizer            Disable

Peripheral illumination correction            Enable

Dust Delete Data            No

Drive Mode            High-speed continuous shooting

Comments

1 comments
Comment posted by Dennis Plank on April 27, 2015 at 7:06 PM

Great flight pose, Peter.  The Osprey is a bit soft.  I'm not sure if that's the lens, or if the focus was just a bit off.  I suspect the latter.  Autofocus does have problems keeping up with birds coming straight toward one.  You might want to switch to Aperture priority instead of shutter priority, or even go to manual exposure for settings like this.  f/13 is a lot higher than you normally need for this large a bird with that much lens and the added shutter speed from a lower f/stop helps minimize human tracking error, though it doesn't help the autofocus any.

devil

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