I’m starting to notice a pattern here with the Duck pics. They are the most common wildlife in the park near my apartment and when I’m on-call for work I cannot really venture too far away. I put my ear buds in and went for two laps around the pond before settling down under a tree and watching a group of Ducks chilling in the grass near me. One of the younger ducklings was playing and basically asking me to take his photo so I had to oblige.
I decided that I wanted to get some practice shooting my 75-300mm lens without a tripod and see what I could do with it. It lacks image stabilization, and the coconscious online is that it’s kind of a garbage lens and I think I can agree to be honest. I have a used lens on the way that is a minor upgrade I want to say that it’s an 85-250mm, but I’d have to go dig up the invoice to see for sure. It’s about a decade old but It’s supposed to have much better glass and it has IS. So we shall see. If it’s not that great I really didn’t pay too much for it and I can return it.
This set came out pretty good, I did run it through some noise correction to get rid of some of the grain caused by the high ISO and I started with a base Kodak Porta 400 (160) preset and lowered the vibrancy of the greens a bit in the grass. That, and giving them the Instagram crop treatment was about it as far as the edits were concerned.
As always, thank you for looking at my stupid photos. 🙂
