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qnr

(16,190 posts) Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:29 PM Aug 2016

Panning a Great Blue Heron

A Great Blue Heron flies by me at Padre Island National Seashore. Some artifacting due to reducing it for ClickASnap, but it's not manipulated.

Olympus E-410 300mm(600mm equiv) f/0.8 1/500 ISO 100

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Panning a Great Blue Heron (Original Post) qnr Aug 2016 OP

Nice shot. I'm still working at panning birds and it ain't easy. nt flamin lib Aug 2016 #1

I was surprised at how well it turned out qnr Aug 2016 #2

beautiful shot.... dhill926 Aug 2016 #3

Oh yeah, certainly noisy. There are some trees about 300 yards from a main thoroughfare here, and qnr Aug 2016 #4

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)

1. Nice shot. I'm still working at panning birds and it ain't easy. nt

Reply to qnr (Original post)

Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:48 PM

Aug 2016

qnr

(16,190 posts)

2. I was surprised at how well it turned out

Reply to flamin lib (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 6, 2016, 02:53 PM

Aug 2016

considering it was a 600mm equiv and handheld.

dhill926

(16,953 posts)

3. beautiful shot....

Reply to qnr (Original post)

Sat Aug 6, 2016, 03:13 PM

Aug 2016

love these birds. We have a nest behind our house....noisy though when the young ones are hungry...

qnr

(16,190 posts)

4. Oh yeah, certainly noisy. There are some trees about 300 yards from a main thoroughfare here, and