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13 years 2 weeks ago #44806 by luckywish1
what is the best lens for eagles can someone please help me. yesterday i went to grand coulee dam and we took some pictures of some eagles and the eagle were to far away and we were useing the 500-1000mm and the picture turn out to far away and i dont know what is wrong. we spend all this money on that one len hoping that it would do the work we wanted it to do and it turn out weriod. i paid 129.00 for the 500-1000mm mirror len. am i doing something wrong please help me
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44810 by luckywish1
here is my eagle picture that we took yesterday at grand coulee dam
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44813 by chasrich
Getting close to an eagle is not the easiest thing to do. Shooting a bird on the fly with a telephoto lens is also quite a challenge. Try not to get too disappointed Penny. The lens you have might be the right tool for this shot but being patient is the most important ingredient.
“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44816 by Cjarvis
Wild life photography takes a lot of patients try slowly working your way to the animal then sit and wait for it to be comfortable with you presence then you just wait some more for that perfect shot. Good luck and have fun, if you stress about not getting the shot you wanted so mo much that it stops being fun then whats the point? :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

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13 years 2 weeks ago #44817 by luckywish1
yes i am very dispointed and very depress about it because it didnt work. and i try and try and try and try and try. and we dont go to grand coulee damm all the time that was a special trip too. i spend 5 hours over there yesterday try and try and try and try to get it perfect and i feel that i waste my money on that stupid len that was only 125.00 now i just dont know what type i lens i need to get.
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44818 by luckywish1
im feeling are hurt right now about my eagle picture. yesterday i took the pictures at grand coulee dam and they didnt let us get any closer to them or on the grass either. fish and wild life were there yesterday also and they said that we cant get any closer because if we went 5 feet by them you would be breaking the law at the grand coulee dam because of the wire fence that is down there they won't let people go down there. we were standing at the visiting center on the top.
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44819 by luckywish1
what len should i get for eagles? im thinking about sending my len back to the company and telling them that im not happy with the len that i got. what do you guys think i should do? ????????
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44820 by Cjarvis
Look in your area for a more photographer friendly area. Also if you look and act like a photographer many parks will let you get away with more then the other visitors. Don't be so down on your self even pros take hundreds even thousands of shots that are total crap. That doesn't mean you'r a bad photographer or you have bad equipment it just means you missed the shot or there was not good shot to catch.
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44821 by Cjarvis
What lens do you have exactly?
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44822 by luckywish1
what type of bird is this one?
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44823 by luckywish1
grand coulee dam doesnt let people go passed that fence because of the water that run down the dam
and the secruity too
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44824 by Cjarvis
Its some kind of raptor you can tell by the way its looking at the ground well gliding. A hawk of some sort would be my guess.
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44825 by luckywish1
the grand coulee dam said that they get eagles all the time on that pole. we were at the visitting center yesterday when we took that picture. how can you get passed that fence to take pictures there?
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44826 by Cjarvis

luckywish1 wrote: grand coulee dam doesnt let people go passed that fence because of the water that run down the dam
and the secruity too


Thats why you should find a location wear you can get further away from other pepole and distractions for you wildlife photography.
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13 years 2 weeks ago #44827 by Cjarvis

luckywish1 wrote: the grand coulee dam said that they get eagles all the time on that pole. we were at the visitting center yesterday when we took that picture. how can you get passed that fence to take pictures there?


If you want to take photos of eagles studie them learn thier habits so you can better anticipate them, wear thay like to perch hunt rest mate, stuf like that. If you know the animal really well then you'll be able to find a great place to photograph them.
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