Saturday, March 28, 2009

Operation Snow Storm

The spring snow goose conversation season offers waterfowlers the opportunity to hunt thousands upon thousands of snow geese migrating back north to their breeding grounds. I was able to experience a remarkable morning hunt when the snow geese returned to the field we had set up TnTs and Silosocks. For forty-five minutes, the action was nonstop for the camera and the guns. I held the camera taking photos until take em was called when I would get the Beretta and start bringing down the birds.

The early morning conditions were pretty dim so these shots are at ISO 1600 & 1000 with a max aperture of f5.6. The lense used is the Nikon 70-300mm and most shots were between 70 – 135mm as these snow geese were in tight. The last couple of shots turned out better with more light conditions allowing the shutter speed to be bumped up to where I like it for taking action shots of waterfowl.


The first four shots are from a near by marsh. I tried sneaking in trying to get really close to the birds but that didn't work. I then waited for them to come back after feeding but they came back when it was too dark. I only managed a few shots that I kept from that afternoon.

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