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Originally Posted by Boostslut
More "Wows" for you Senna! First one is cute, and second one is amazing! How were you situated? And camera setup ect? Is that the 500mm F4? Crop? Flash? Sorry, alot of questions. Very nice! I'd love to be in a situation where i could get a photo that close.
For my photo i was at the Boundary Bay Dyke. Didn't see a whole lot there but a harrier and then this eagle. I stood there with my camera on a monopod for about 45 minutes until he jumped off the tree. Finally got something good so it was worth it!
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The close-up of the adult was taken yesterday at the nest at Vanier Park - just go down to where the boat launch is, and it's in the big tree to the right of the launching ramp. That nest isn't as high up as the one near Reifel, but it is obscured by leaves and branches. Gear was just a D300, 400mm f2.8 VR and a Manfrotto carbon tripod, no flash. The light was nice...the sun was starting to go down. I did crop it a bit so that the eagle's shoulder was pinned to the lower left, and the branch was coming in from the upper right.
It looks like I was up higher because the bird shifted its body and angled down a bit. You can tell in most of my other photos of the bird that I was shooting up.
This pic, however is of an eagle sitting very low in a tree, and very close. This is not cropped much.
