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  1. Your two cranes look great to my ON eyes on my con’t+++ screen! Not grainy at all. What I would give to have legs like that [small joke]. And thanks for the nice sunset shots. (they were for me, cough* cough*, weren’t they?)

    It didn’t look very dark, though, which must be the camera setting. And WHY DON’T YOU keep a flashlight in your car?; you know, in case of an emergency?

    • Yes Webster the sunsets were for you. I always snap a few off while there so since you enjoyed I figured I would include ;).

      I set the camera to shoot in the RAW (NEF) format plus JPEGS. The photos are the RAW files converted to JPEG so the lighting was adjusted. The lower photo is as close to how the sky really looked. In the upper one the color saturation was bumped up when I converted them just because – I dunno it looked different and I liked the lines (bands?) of color it brought out.

      The cranes were taken when it was dark. I did not know if I had captured them until I got home and looked on the computer screen and increased the light settings.

      In defense of myself – we were in KRP’s car not mine – in my truck I have those little glow flares that light when you snap them, a first aid kit that covers human and canine items, an old military shovel, snow chains, blanket, misc maps, and a flashlight that probably needs batteries 🙂 .

      When it comes to vehicles think Oscar and Felix.

  2. Glad you got to see the cranes even if you didn’t get the pics you wanted. They’re pretty incredible birds. Hope you get another peep before they move on or do they stay there a bit?

    • The cranes usually hang around until February. They arrived a little late this year – about two weeks behind their norm. Once the rest of the fields are plowed there should be thousands of them out there. Right now most areas have just a few hundred sitting around at a given time.
      I watched a couple fly ins. Hopefully next weekend they are dancing at the refuge. Woodbridge DFG site

  3. Well, you wouldn’t want it to be too easy, would you? Shouldn’t you have to Suffer for Art? Isn’t it supposed to hurt? Or at least it itch? Still, the picture of the cranes is pretty cool. Looking forward to more!

  4. Yah I would like easy once in awhile just to change it up a bit.

    I finally decided that all the focus and metering problems that have been driving me nuts with this camera might not be me – gasp. Turns out the camera was a dud.

    I might post a series of a couple of cranes I took tonight landing.

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