randomfire: shutterclicks: The swans have arrived

Apr 08 10

The swans have arrived

Posted in nature (tags: laulujoutsen, nature, spring, swan) |

Our local swan couple has arrived, another sure sign of the coming spring. In all honesty, they arrived a week ago, but this was the first time I had the camera on me when seeing them.

Canon EOS 30D
1/3200 s
f/2.8
ISO 400
0 EV
150 mm
Flash: No

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About

Simply put, this is Ramin Miraftabi's photoblog. It is an offshoot of my main (in English) blog, randomfire.

I decided to start photoblogging to better challenge myself photographically. We've been publishing a daily photoblog of dog pictures (The Life of Jalo) since September 2004 but I wanted to branch out a bit. Originally I tried to adhere to the picture-a-day approach, but that didn't work. Partly because some days I ran out of time and other days I had good images left over. So now my goal is just to publish a new picture every day. It'll also let me play around a bit more with post-processing, which LoJ doesn't really do.

You can contact Ramin at rmiraftabi@gmail.com.

Gear

Canon EOS 30D
Canon EOS 300D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di ASPH IF MACRO
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM
Sigma EX 150mm f/2.8 APO DG HSM MACRO
Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
Sigma EF-500 DG Super
Nikon SB-800
Nikon SB-28
Various tripods, monopods, lightstands, umbrellas, reflectors, etc.