Pelicans at the Port

[Kevin Scott]

As a tribute to Dao, here's a pelican landing series.

Dao offered to treat Gale and me to lunch if we'd take him to see some pelicans. So we headed off to the Port and had a great seafood lunch!

After we were finished, we walked down to a floating pier to shoot some pelicans. I switched over to Gale's 70-200VR and we started shooting. Dao was lusting over the D2X and was commenting on the "sweet sound" of 8fps. I was only shooting at about 6, so I switched to CH and rattled off a number of shots. He was in bliss!

Here's the results of one sequence (only posting 6 of the 12 or so I took)

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[Flew]

Nice Kev. Looks like you guys had a great day all around.

I can't wait to get back down there. You company doesn't need any .net programmers do they?? :lol:

 

[Kevin Scott]

Nice Kev. Looks like you guys had a great day all around.

I can't wait to get back down there. You company doesn't need any .net programmers do they?? :lol:

Of course they do!! They're looking for some now, actually.

Can't wait for you to come back down. It's always fun shooting with you. We did have a great day and Dao is so much fun. We laughed all day long!

 

[Greg]

Nice series. they sure come in slow.

 

[Gale]

Wow Kevin, those are teriffic.

Way to go Pal.

 

[JayR]

Wow. Great series. I almost thought he was going to land on the other pelican.

 

[Kevin Scott]

Thanks guys! Gale, glad you liked these pelis since you said my last ones sucked. Well you didn't say suck....

Jay, when I was going through the shots one at a time, I thought the same thing. Then the one almost looked like I cut and pasted the bird in. Was kinda weird. I enjoyed my time shooting the pelicans with Gale and Dao. It was lots of fun.

 

[bfjr]

Peli are fun to shoot and these make me want to go out and do it again

 

[greyflash]

Sounds like a nice day of shooting and lunch to boot. Really nice images of the pelican.

 

[Kevin Scott]

Thanks Ben & Gordon! Appreciate you taking time to look and comment.

 

[daodang]

Hi Kevin,

Great serie. It is very neat. I think I will begin to say D2X, D2X, D2X

 

[Johnbotu]

Nice shots.

John

 

[Leigh]

I love pelicans!

 

[Steve S]

Great sequence, but I'm confused about the FPS

Were you shooting these in HSC mode? I thought the D2X only did 5 FPS in full frame mode, and 7 or 8? FPS in HSC ode.

 

[Kevin Scott]

Hi Steve. Generally I only shot in HSC mode when I'm shooting birds and stuff like that while "full frame" is for studio stuff. I have always had my cam set at CL which is either 5 or 6 fps in HSC. To tease Dao, I switched to CH which is 8 fps in HSC.

 

[Mick V]

Wow! A stunning series of shots.

 

[Kevin Scott]

Thanks Mick! Pelicans are such fun to shoot. Have to go back to get some dive bombing shots!

 

[james thiel]

Kevin as usual these are terrific shots. I sure wish we had more of them here in Washington. You have to go to the coast to see them.

 

[Philippe Roger]

Kevin,

Somehow I missed this last week: what a great sequence! I love to watch pelicans... or Alcatraz (as they used to call them in Spanish! ;-))