2013 Waterfowl Season Captures by the D90

After the end of the goose season, I unfortunately ran into computer problems and had my hard drive crash on my XPS laptop. Luckily, I had these images on external hard drives so did not lose them from the season. With the hard drive crashing, I got out of my usual winter photography habits so just getting to post these.

Last fall, I purchased a Vello FreeWave wireless remote that allowed me to have a video screen inside the blind with me and be able to see what my camera was seeing as birds flew into the decoys. With this new remote, I put my camera behind the blinds for the majority of the season.

With either the camera in the blind with me, or out on a tripod with the Vello FreeWave hooked too it, I used the 12-24mm, 18-105mm and 24-120mm lense on it. The camera was set to Aperture mode and RAW format. I varied the aperture and ISO based on light.

Once in ViewNX, I did the usually adjustment of exposure, white balance and picture control. Daylight and Cloudy white balance settings were used and Nature-Landscape for the picture control setting. Highlight/Shadow slider was also adjusted if needed.

In PSE11, I did the final adjustments and also played with some filters to change the look of the images. The clone & healing brush was used to get rid of unwanted objects in the images as well.

The 2013 season was a great one and I look forward to the spring with a chance to chase snow geese and capture the images of the hunt while also waiting for new flowers to bloom.

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