Monthly Archives: January 2015

Florida Nature Travel Photography: Scrub Jay

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Last night I arrived home from a week of Florida nature photography. 3000+ Raw files to weed through, I expect to share less than 20% of them as always due to quality control and redundancy.

Anyway, here’s a nice shot of the endemic Florida Scrub Jay, first time I’ve ever seen one.  They can be approachable, so the quality of photo depends mainly on the angle of sunlight and subject isolation.  Below is my finalized web jpeg of the capture and also a detail crop.  Photo was taken with the Tamron SP 150-600mm VC lens, the Canon EOS 60D DSLR, and my Benro carbon fiber tripod.

Florida Bird Photo

One of the most famous #songbird residents of Florida, many people go to parks just to observe these vivid and active Jays. #Photo taken with the #Tamron SP 150-600mm VC lens and the #Canon EOS 60D

Exposure settings: 1/250 F/8 ISO 400, 500mm

bird photo detail

A tighter view of my original frame, nice #feather and eye #detail from the #Tamron SP 150-600mm VC lens.

New Jersey Nature Photography: Ice Detail #2

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I braved the cold front for a bit on New Years Day, and headed out with my Tamron SP 180mm macro lens and Canon 6D to see what I could see.  After I began shooting, I realized that my camera’s White Balance was set to Florescent due to some indoors video I had previously been shooting.  More often than not, I will use Auto White Balance for shooting stills (in Raw format).  While White Balance is easily changed during Raw processing, it affects the “mood” of my initial photos as I glance at the previews on my LCD.

In this case, I not only liked the cooling effect of the manual White Balance on my subject matter, I loved it.  Improper WB’s can often render photos as unrealistic, but there are certainly times and places for creative WB usage.

NJ Nature Photo

Ice Detail 2. New Jersey #Nature Photo taken handheld with the #Tamron SP 180mm F/3.5 macro lens and the Canon EOS 6D.

Exposure Settings: 1/160 F/4.5 ISO 200, 180mm