This years photo safari

[boneaddict]

more to come in a bit......have a game to go to and one is a pretty decent set of bones that I got.  Might even be a qualifier for the Joshua cup as my Idaho buck.

[boneaddict]

a tasty treat

[popeshawnpaul]

Great pictures Bone. 

I gotta ask ...why did you shoot with in P or program mode?  For example, the one you shot offhand in the dark of the two moose was shot at iso 800, 1/50th, and f7.1.  If you had used Av mode, you could have put your f stop to f2.8 and at the same iso of 800 you would have about 1/250th of a second.  Enough to stop the action or handheld jitters a bit better.  Also, if you bumped it to iso 1600, you would be shooting at 1/500th of a second.  As a side note, isn't it amazing that you can hand hold a 400mm lens at 1/50th of a second though?  Gotta live image stabilization.

There were a few instances where you were not shooting at maximum aperture.  I see that the program mode is indicating "program mode" which is probably the P mode on your dial.  That mode fails to accurately set your setting almost every time.  Most the pictures turned out good despite the failed intelligence of the camera to set your settings correct for the situation.  You are more trusting than I as I never trust my camera to set my settings except the shutter speed in Av mode. 

Hey, isn't gas expensive driving 1400 miles?  Man, it's been killing me on my photo trips.

[Timberstalker]

Doug-  Those are awesome pictures.  I cant believe how sharp some of them are.

[boneaddict]

  confessions of an amateur trying to get used to his equipment.  3 times I was hurried to take shots and I am so used to shooting in auto, but was using AV so that I could shoot in RAW.  I went to shoot, fired off a couple frames, then noticed my dial had turned and my settings were way off.  Then readjjust and sometimes got to shoot again, sometimes not.  I was pert near peeved at myself.

[boneaddict]

PS the lens is amazing.  I can't wait to utilize it at its full potential, and the crop on it is amazing.  Such as that eagle.  I should have put the 1.4 on, but a boat came by and scared him.  Anyway  he was a LONG ways away and I liked the scene.  Gas is killing me, but at least in North Idaho it was 2.90, and under.  That was a nice break from Washington. 

[jackelope]

good stuff, bone. one of these days....

now wheres the horns?

[wf70gonehunting]

Bone them some sweet pic keepem coming!

[Timber]

Great shots Bone, keep them coming! It's good you are breaking in that lens before our November safari.

[boneaddict]

Thanks guys!  Ya Timber thats what I am hoping for.  We will need to get into some open country.  This thick stuff is a pain in the ass.  Here is the buck.  I was in one of my favorite moose spots and a spot that I discovered for muledeer a couple years back when I was moose hunting.  Only one man on here knows where it is at and I think I'll keep it that way since I probably won't be hunting up Scalawag anymore.  Anyway, I was crusing through the thick stuff kind of in a meadow area and I chose the right path and found this little guy.  Now before all  the fellars try to save me from going to jail, I was in Idaho, NOT washington.  I do not know the pick up laws there, so I left it. I got back to my truck and headed down the road I ran into a game cop.   I told him the story and he looked at the pics and said it was ok for me to get it, so I turned around and started hiking.  Whats another couple miles for some bones.   I was joking about the Cup because I told him I could burn my deer tag for it.  Not necessary he said.  Anyway.....
 
he has some chews, but its a nice rack.  He prbably died in about 12 feet of snow last year.  The predators never found it.  He is tight or not much of a spread, which is a common trait on this mountain.  He is heavy though and lots of moss.  I love moss!

[boneaddict]

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[boneaddict]

his teeth looked good, so probably that darn winter last year that got him. 

[M_ray]

Nice pics there Bone ... Thanks! 

[boneaddict]

Sorry I couldn't find a big one a little closer to the road than the one you guys are after.  He didn't want anything to do with me apparantly.   

[M_ray]

No prob!