Today was supposed to be a birding on a boat at Airoli mangroves. My good friend Kishore Bhargava was along as well and it was fun shooting with him. But, low tide it was and that was the end of the planned boat trip. The boat yard near the bridge did have a lot of waders (mostly Lesser Sand Plovers) and we spent the morning birding right at the boatyard itself. On the far side of the creek we spotted flamingos and a host of other birds but, way too far to id.
Got a beauty sighting of a Black Capped kingfisher right on early. Just too far to fill more of the frame 🙁 I could have used a 1500mm lens and still find it short !
All shots D2X , HSC mode, 300mm 2.8 VR + TC 17EII on a tripod. VR OFF. Manual Exposure Mode.
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Of course got the regular static stint shots
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Then I tried to get a few fight shots of the stints trying to protect their feeding territories.
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A Few landings
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All in all a serious fun morning 🙂 and it sure was great to be shooting again 😀
I used the Sekonic 308s lightmeter exclusively today for all these shots. Under these conditions ( very bright sunlight, these pics were under by 1.5 ~ 1.8 stops. This surprised me a bit even though I am aware from my previous experience that the lightmeter exposure does tend to be a shade underexposed for my taste. I prefer the shots right shifted cause the files then tend to have minimum noise. Lesson learnt, use histogram on the camera 😀 . I do plan to do a little investigation on this the next time I am out shooting .
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