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Post by Woody Williams on May 5, 2007 18:29:58 GMT -5
This is what I had around me all morning today. When I first saw the jake coming I thought "Longbeard!" Nice big jake though with a stubby little beard. You cant see it here but one of the hens had a beard bigger than his. She sported a 4 to 5 inch beard. This has been my season -- jakes and hens galore. Longbeards almost are non-existant. The line across the jake is a small weed that was about 5 feet from the blind. This was little over 100 yards with a 10X zoom.  |
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Post by songdog on May 5, 2007 18:44:28 GMT -5
Hey Woody, great picture . What kind of equiptment are you using . I do wildlife photograghy and that is a pretty decent shot at 100 yds.
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Post by Woody Williams on May 5, 2007 18:54:11 GMT -5
I was surprised it a came out that good myself as I did not have it on a tripod.
Not exactly magazine quality like some that I have seen on here, but good enough for me.
It is an Olympus C-770 Ultra Zoom. 10X Optical.
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Post by bsutravis on May 5, 2007 19:51:04 GMT -5
The real question Woody...... if that jake had been at 20 yards, would you have dumped it???
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Post by Woody Williams on May 5, 2007 21:18:03 GMT -5
The real question Woody...... if that jake had been at 20 yards, would you have dumped it??? I had him and the hens at 40 yards a couple times this morning. No, I'm holding out for a long beard or it's tag soup. Over 30 years of hunting them I have had a lot more tag soup years than longbeard or jake years. Now the bearded lady just might catch a broadhead come this fall. She got a pass this time as she might be expecting... |
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Post by Hood on May 6, 2007 14:40:46 GMT -5
Hey Woody, That's a pretty good picture, especially at 100 yds. I was thinking of buying that camera a few years back. It had the best optical zoom on the market at that time (excluding DSLR). I hope you don't mind, but I took a minute (literally) and edited that "weed' out of your photo. I also adjusted the contrast a bit to help bring out the colors. There's a lot you can do with a photo program. Robert  |
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Post by hoosiertaxidermist on May 6, 2007 16:46:20 GMT -5
nice photo. Interesting color difference on the wings of that one hen. just sunlight or does she have wings that different?
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Post by Woody Williams on May 6, 2007 19:37:04 GMT -5
Thanks Robert, I am very happy with the C-770. I shot about 800 pics on my vacation trip to Alaska and got a some great shots of a ma grizz and two cubs on a caribou bull that was about 400 yards away. That was a close as I wanted to get to her. hoosiertaxidermist, The one hen did have somewhat lighter wings, but not a lot. That was the bearded lady. The sun wasn't hitting them yet then. Here she is again...  |
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