Scottish Borders - 12.10.19
It's a short ten minuets drive from the digs to the location where a couple of Water Rail have recently been putting in an appearance, it's still not 7.30am and barely light ! surely not enough light for photography, but I'm always I'm prepared to give it a go.
The Canon 5D Mk IV with the 500mm MkII image stabilisation is working overtime, wide open at f4 and 250/sec to get as much light as possible it's bumping 12,800 ISO....wow !!...that's not looking good for getting any decent images, fingers crossed I click and hope as they say.
A couple of Water Rails are hogging the side of a small channel and to get a shot I'm actually having to be in the water sat on a metal frame, the rails move into open water and thats when you have the opportunity to get an image of this normal shy sulking bird. Complete daylight is still a little way off and to get the exposure somewhere near on the rail it gives the image background a very dark look, no trickery with photoshop this is how it is.
All too soon I have to move on but it's my intension to return in a couple of weeks when the weather is a little colder spending a longer session concentration solely on these quirky rails, in differing light conditions providing a variety of differing images that's difficult to replicate at any other locations.
Watch this space as they say.
The Canon 5D Mk IV with the 500mm MkII image stabilisation is working overtime, wide open at f4 and 250/sec to get as much light as possible it's bumping 12,800 ISO....wow !!...that's not looking good for getting any decent images, fingers crossed I click and hope as they say.
A couple of Water Rails are hogging the side of a small channel and to get a shot I'm actually having to be in the water sat on a metal frame, the rails move into open water and thats when you have the opportunity to get an image of this normal shy sulking bird. Complete daylight is still a little way off and to get the exposure somewhere near on the rail it gives the image background a very dark look, no trickery with photoshop this is how it is.
All too soon I have to move on but it's my intension to return in a couple of weeks when the weather is a little colder spending a longer session concentration solely on these quirky rails, in differing light conditions providing a variety of differing images that's difficult to replicate at any other locations.
Watch this space as they say.
Water Rail
In this last image it's now pasted 8.0am and the daylight much better the background becoming visible, personally I like the dark background image which looks more dramatic so long as the camera can handle the high iso and resulting digital noise.
