Monday, January 5, 2015

Wildlife Photography – Why So Serious?


Are you familiar with the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs? Have you ever looked at a Sparrow or Dove and thought "no way that can be right"? Remember how the Velociraptor looked in the Jurassic Park movies?



Well, I captured this Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron from about 25 feet with my EF 300mm f/4 IS USM + 1.4x extender. He was just standing at the edge of the water watching an alligator swim on past. As I began shooting, he quickly turned my direction and flashed me this look. That evolution theory sounds fairly reasonable now, doesn't it?



Yellow Crowned Night Heron or Velociraptor?




"Yellow Crowned Night Heron or Velociraptor?
Copyright 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon 50D set on aperture priority (Av), using an EF 300mm f/4L IS USM with an EF 1.4X II extender mono-pod mounted. The exposure was taken at 420mm, f/6.3 for 1/200th of a second at ISO 100 on Lexar Professional UDMA digital film. All post capture processing was done in Lightroom 2. Click on the image above for a larger version.



Posted in Photography Tagged: Canon, Canon 50D, Wildlife Photography, Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron



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