Went up to my mountains to shoot some pano's. I pull off to the lookout point and pull my tripod and my cam with the 35mm attached. What do I see in front of me? A golden eagle circling around.
Run back to the car to grab my 70-300. By the time I put the lens on, the bird is gone. (note to self. Buy a D400 for birding)
No problem, I do my panos and a few other landscape shots, in my usual Aperture priority 100 ISO setting. (I'm on a tripod now..)
I finish all that and I'm thinking maybe I better put my 70-300mm on, just in case I see the eagle again.
Sure enough, I see the eagle circling around. I pull the car over, get out and wait for it to get a little closer. Off I go cranking out shots left and right. Then the bird goes away, but it's fine, because I got a few shots off and I know they will be fine because I have the Cam set to one of the user settings that I use for fast action stuff. OOOHHH...but do I?
No. Stupid me, left it in Aperture priority with a 100 ISO setting, so most of these shots will be well under a few hundredths of a second shutter speed. (no problem, you live and learn)
At about this time I spot the eagle again. This time I have the right speed for it and take a whole bunch of shots.
I start heading down the mountain. I notice my brakes are a little soft. By the time I get down from the mountain I have lost about 90% of my brakes. I'm real careful driving the last 10 miles to the house. I pull in my driveway and I have no brakes left whatsoever. I hit the garbage can trying to stop!!
So now come monday morning I have to call a wrecker to tow the thing to a garage and try and get it fixed. I wonder how much that is going to cost?
Oh well, at least I have a bunch of great flying eagle shots...Or, DO I??
Well, I don't! I have bunch of great flying turkey vulture shots....:excitement::biggrin-new:
I swear! I don't know how some people make it through life without a sense of humor. :indecisiveness:
Run back to the car to grab my 70-300. By the time I put the lens on, the bird is gone. (note to self. Buy a D400 for birding)
No problem, I do my panos and a few other landscape shots, in my usual Aperture priority 100 ISO setting. (I'm on a tripod now..)
I finish all that and I'm thinking maybe I better put my 70-300mm on, just in case I see the eagle again.
Sure enough, I see the eagle circling around. I pull the car over, get out and wait for it to get a little closer. Off I go cranking out shots left and right. Then the bird goes away, but it's fine, because I got a few shots off and I know they will be fine because I have the Cam set to one of the user settings that I use for fast action stuff. OOOHHH...but do I?
No. Stupid me, left it in Aperture priority with a 100 ISO setting, so most of these shots will be well under a few hundredths of a second shutter speed. (no problem, you live and learn)
At about this time I spot the eagle again. This time I have the right speed for it and take a whole bunch of shots.
I start heading down the mountain. I notice my brakes are a little soft. By the time I get down from the mountain I have lost about 90% of my brakes. I'm real careful driving the last 10 miles to the house. I pull in my driveway and I have no brakes left whatsoever. I hit the garbage can trying to stop!!
So now come monday morning I have to call a wrecker to tow the thing to a garage and try and get it fixed. I wonder how much that is going to cost?
Oh well, at least I have a bunch of great flying eagle shots...Or, DO I??
Well, I don't! I have bunch of great flying turkey vulture shots....:excitement::biggrin-new:
I swear! I don't know how some people make it through life without a sense of humor. :indecisiveness:
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