Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park
On Friday I returned from an eleven day trip to Alaska with my mom and my friend. It was such an amazing and beautiful place, and I will definitely be going back there again someday. On our second to last day, we flew out of Homer with Bald Mountain Air to visit Katmai National Park. I was thrilled to hear we would be going to the famous Brooks Falls area, as it was the first time this season they would be taking participants to this location. There were not as many bears as I thought there would be, but still they were there and I was able to get some images I'm pretty happy with. Below are some favorites.
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Excellent shots man! I'm really looking forward to Brooks Falls.
ReplyDeleteHey I am a nature photographer, and am 16 years old. I use a canon 400mm with a xsi. I also have the 430 ex2. How do you use it, I am still working on using as fill flash. Also i was considerign buying a 1.4x. Have you ever used one on the 400mm. Im wondering if its worth it to shoot at f8.
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteTo use fill flash with the 430EX, set the mode to ETTL and also make sure that the high speed sync mode is on. Then all you do it select how much fill flash you want, I usually have leave it at -2 but will go from -3 to 0.
What 400 lens do you have? I use the Canon 1.4x all the time with my 400 f5.6 for birds and it works great, the only downside is that you have to manual focus. I usually stop down to f11 as well for some extra sharpness.
Josh, excellent photography as always. My biggest complaint is that I want more posts from you!
ReplyDeleteI, too, have a couple questions. Using fill flash, are you using a bracket to get the flash off the camera? Are you at all using a diffuser? Do you still shoot in AV or do you shoot in full manual?
Thanks!
Hi Jared,
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the comment. I've been trying to get out to shoot more often lately which will hopefully lead to more blog posts.
I mount my 430EX II flash with a better beamer directly on the hotshoe of the camera. It works for me and I don't feel the need to spend the money on a flash bracket. I do not use diffusers, and 95% of the time I use AV, only exception is at night when I use manual to photograph frogs and such using flash as main light.
Excellent...I love photographing herps as well as birds (as evidenced by my flickr page). I, too, use manual mode with my 550EX flash as my main light for photographing nocturnal herps, but I use a Sto-fen diffuser at such times.
ReplyDeleteI formerly used a Canon 40D and I cannot make any negative comments on the camera's autofocusing ability. I hope the forums help you with that...???