Shooting in drizzle and fog today

[coastalconn]

Spent the whole day at ISO 1600 which is much more use-able than 800 was on my D300... Just tough crappy lighting all day. Comments welcome as always...

My normal spot seems to have 3 Great Horned Owls now. Caught this one lifting off but it was underexposed my 1-2/3 stops, I was shocked I was able to get this much out of it...
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Great Horned Owl Flight Crappy weather by krisinct, on Flickr

Later on I found this beautiful Juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk being mean and vicious and plucking earthworms out of the ground like a Robin would...
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Juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk Portrait by krisinct, on Flickr

Saw my first Hood Mergansers of the year too...
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Hooded Merganser in flight by krisinct, on Flickr

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Hooded Merganser in flight 2 12/1 by krisinct, on Flickr

 

[Derrel]

That sensor delivers clean images at 1600. If the owl was minus 1.66 or so and you got that much out of it, wow...quite good. It's a great time to be a Nikon digital shooter.

 

[coastalconn]

That sensor delivers clean images at 1600. If the owl was minus 1.66 or so and you got that much out of it, wow...quite good. It's a great time to be a Nikon digital shooter.

OK, it was really +1.55 in LR I was shooting in manual with Auto ISO capped at 1600...
This was the original mess..

 

[GDHLEWIS]

Love 3 and 4, those not so perfect reflections help add movement to the image. Even at 1600 the quality is good nicely done!

 

[baturn]

Great stuff! The Hooded Mergansers in flight are awesome.

 

[matthewo]

Love #3 well done

 

[MSnowy]

Nice set. Are you going after the Fork-Tailed Flycatcher that's down your way?

 

[pjaye]

Gorgeous. 1 and 3 are my favorites. (If I had to choose)