We love most birds, but Pelicans are our favorites.
We have shot many hundreds of Pelican portraits over the last few years.
Always
the main challenges are:
- Light (no surprise here)
- Background (tough)
This time we found this colorful old guy on a pier with strong overcast.
This is the ideal soft box for these kind of photos.
Canon EOS 5D at 200mm (1/800 sec, f/10, ISO 500, IS), FOV 200mm
100% magnification crop
Nikon D2x at 200mm (1/400 sec, f/10, ISO 400, VR), FOV 300mm
100% magnification crop
Again both cameras did a good job to
capture what we wanted. The longer FOV of the D2x was welcome as we
did not get that close to the Pelican. On the other side the Canon
EOS 5D is a better performer at higher ISO values (we would say ISO
400 and higher). Also note that the D2x shot shows higher DOF because
even as we used the same 200mm we were further away from the Pelican
(for
further discussion of the subject read here). |
