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Message: <blockquote data-quote="snaphappy" data-source="post: 110278" data-attributes="member: 12198">Hmm guess no help today oh well Sun peeked out for a few mins and kids had an early dismissal day so we headed to the river park.  I've been working with my 35mm the last couple days and its growing on me.  I had to break out the 70-300mm though as I drove down the road and found 2 eagles side by side in a tree.  Unfortunately they were just on the other side of a work area (lumber mill) so couldn't do much to compose my pics (pics posted in birds thread)<img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2168.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />iso 200 35mm -0.3ev f/13 1/500I'm not confortable posting pics of my kids but they're always happy to give me their backs anyways <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2128.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Iso 200 35mm 0.3ev f/9 1/320We moved farther down the river and lost our sun<img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2231.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Iso 200 35mm 0ev f/10 1/400<img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2254.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />iso 2oo 35mm 1ev f/8 Oh oh another eagle over there on the other side of the river!  can u see it?<img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2300.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Iso 200 20mm 0ev f/10 1/400Switched to my 70-300mm again can you see it now <img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2291.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Iso 200 300mm 0ev f/5.6 1/1000I guess I could have cropped and fiddled with it but I didn't bring a tripod today so not really any pointWe got back to the parking lot again and realized we could still see the eagle sitting in the tree across the river<img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2352.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Iso 200 70mm -0.3ev f/7.1 1/800See there it is <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I love my 70-300mm<img src="http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/serjay04/DSC_2361.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Iso 200 300mm -0.3ev f5.6 1/800Again could have cropped and fiddled but I like it just as it is and my fiddling would just muck it upSo all this manually focusing and moving myself to take pics with my 35mm has really gotten me attached to it.  I wasn't thrilled at first but now that I'm using it and ignoring auto I got frustrated with my 18-55mm today and it only spent 5mins on my camera to do a couple landscapes.</blockquote>

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