{"id":263,"date":"2020-05-07T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:03:29","slug":"2020-5-7-on-the-way-out-the-door-81119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Down on the boardwalk – 8\/17\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Between the last post and this one I had made another purchase. It wasn\u2019t for another lens, but give it time. This time it was for future portability and ease. Plus I like spending money.<\/p>\n

I picked up a new laptop, specifically for on the go editing. It was just as fast and powerful as the big \u201cgaming\u201d laptop I picked up the year or two before. But it was small, and thin. Oh so thin. It\u2019s got a touch screen and a pen, so I can edit with that which for me is really helpful. The majority of these blogs are written on that laptop. And all my editing. I did a lot of research on it for the past few weeks or months before it dipped in price on Amazon and I snagged it. About $200 cheaper than the exact same thing is going for almost a year later.<\/p>\n

But enough about that, it doesn\u2019t really affect the photography so much as the workflow afterwards. <\/p>\n

This Saturday evening I went somewhere new, still to the same river though. (The Chattahoochee is huge) <\/p>\n

There I saw plenty of wildlife. More waterfowl in one place than ever before. And yet, no pictures were edited out of this raw folder. Hundreds taken, not a single one edited. I didn\u2019t remember why until I imported the folder and started editing them now for the post. <\/p>\n

To keep it brief, missing focus, not being close enough, not understanding the 1-1 ratio for lens length and shutter speed. Etc.<\/p>\n

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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @600 – 1\/1000 Sec – F8.0 – ISO 800<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @ 256 – 1\/500 Sec – F8 – ISO 800<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Turns out I did see a kingfisher first much earlier than I thought. I couldn\u2019t even tell what it was back then, I only know now because I\u2019ve managed to see one with much better skills and equipment and I was actually able to identify it.<\/p>\n

This next one isn\u2019t too bad, but to be fair that is at the full resolution. If I cropped it in like I wanted to, it\u2019s not looking great then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @400 – 1\/1000 Sec – F8 – ISO 500<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @400 – 1\/640 Sec – F8 – ISO 800<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Look the sun went behind a cloud and now the bird is blue. I\u2019ve discovered an entirely new type of bird. The blue Egret. <\/p>\n

Jokes aside I may be able to edit this back to natural colors. But it\u2019s just not worth it. It\u2019s not a particularly interesting photo, even if the bird was colored correctly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @309 – 1\/1000 Sec – F8 – ISO 800<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @600 – 1\/400 Sec – F8 – ISO 500<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @600 – 1\/800 Sec – F8 – ISO 1600<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @ 150 – 1\/160 Sec – F8 – ISO 1250<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I hand picked out the \u201cbest\u201d ones for these examples. Really it comes down to inexperience and trying to get top quality photos out of the bottom entry level equipment. I know gear doesn\u2019t make the photographer, to an extent. You\u2019re not going to get a nice full resolution clean and crisp photo of the details of a wildlife subject shooting on the cheapest lens available. <\/p>\n

It was terribly disappointing to come back to hundreds of images like the ones above and feeling like a failure. Especially when hopes were so high that day from all the different kinds of wildlife I saw in a single outing. That does explain why I didn\u2019t edit anything from this day. <\/p>\n

However, to try and end on a better note. That same morning of the 17th I did take a picture from right out my front door. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @375 – 1\/60 Sec – F8 – ISO 400<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, the only one I\u2019ve ever seen so far. Pretty cool, and that picture still came out better. Get closer to the subject was really what I needed for the types of photos I wanted. That and a faster autofocus, bigger aperture\u2026 Things that cost money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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