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Many of the passengers out watching for calving. 2013:08:27 14:56:48 Exposure time: 1/1000 F-stop: 13.0 ISO speed: 800 Focal length: 18mm
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2013 03:15 PM•Views: 116
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I was standing at the rail looking at a different part of the glacier face, and when I heard a loud report like a rifle shot I started an automatic sequence of photos of this Calving Event by holding down the shutter button. This was probably the largest calving I saw. The glacier often cracked like a rifle shot, and groaned and creaked, but calving was rare, although we did see about 6. My pictures are unspectacular, except for this one, because they was over before I could swing the wide field 18-55mm lens to one. Use of the 70-300mm lens was unfeasible since they lasted only a second or 3 or four. Some shot movies, to catch an event from start to finish. This photo, the first of the series was recorded as 2013:08:27 15:22:00 Exposure time: 1/1000 F-stop: 13.0 ISO speed: 800 Focal length: 48mm. Time as recorded by the camera is 3:22 and 0 seconds.
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2013 03:22 PM•Views: 115
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Same Calving event taken approximately 1 second later (camera records time to nearest second, so it could have been as much as nearly 2 seconds later). 2013:08:27 15:22:01 Exposure time: 1/1000 F-stop: 13.0 ISO speed: 800 Focal length: 48mm
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2013 03:22 PM•Views: 114
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This is the last of a series of photos of this event I took, and the camera recorded the time as 15:22:04. It was the 9th in the series, so given that the camera only records whole seconds, the elapsed time is 4 seconds +/- 1/2 second at each end of the sequence, so this photo was taken 4 +/- 1 second after the first one I took.
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2013 03:22 PM•Views: 114
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Aftermath of the Calving Event taken 21 seconds +/- 2 seconds later as recorded by camera as 2013:08:27 15:22:21 Exposure time: 1/800 F-stop: 13.0 ISO speed: 800 Focal length: 48mm. This is the 10th photo of this event I took
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2013 03:22 PM•Views: 118
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Spreading ice bergs after all of the Calving as we were leaving. 2013:08:27 17:03:14 Exposure time: 1/400 F-stop: 11.0 ISO speed: 800 Focal length: 70mm
Time as recorded by the camera is 5:03 and 14 seconds.
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2013 05:03 PM•Views: 115
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The next morning we awoke after cruising all night in Haines, Alaska near the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 08:03 AM•Views: 118
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Getting on rafts for float, Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. Our guide is the near bearded one facing us. Other guides helped us into our life vests.
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 09:20 AM•Views: 119
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Bundled up early morning for float trip about 8 AM Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve.
They gave Sharon a new life vest. I got this old ratty one.
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 09:23 AM•Views: 118
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Eagle! I don't see it, but I take a photo just in case. It is low light, heavy overcast, note slow shutter speed required at ISO 1600, boat bobbing fair amount, so hard to hold camera still. I eventually got approximately 117 photos of about 20 eagles, of which photos only about 15 were fair (some blurring) to nearly sharp. I really needed to shoot at 1/500 second or faster for 300mm focal length, my longest lens, but low light forbade that. I would have needed 1/1000 sec exposure if raft was bobbing much at all, which it was. What I am saying is any good pictures are luck, which is why I took 117 pictures.
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 09:46 AM•Views: 119
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This is the 14th of 17 photos of this eagle. The first 13 were all blurred by motion of the camera (boat motion) at the extreme focal length (large magnification) combined with the low light requirement of slow shutter speed. This shot was taken at 300mm, f/11/, 1/400 sec exposure, with the camera set at ISO 1600.
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 09:56 AM•Views: 116
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This is the same eagle, shot #17 of 17 photos of this eagle. The automatic Nikon Camera (D80) set the exposure 25% faster at 1/500 sec, and that faster shutter speed probably made this shot slightly sharper. It was 300mm, f/11/, 1/500 sec exposure, with the camera set at ISO 1600.
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 09:56 AM•Views: 116
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I took 29 photos of this eagle, and this is only fair with some blurring due to the slow shutter speed of 1/160 sec (300mm, f/9, ISO 1600)
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 10:02 AM•Views: 114
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This has the same camera parameters as the last shot (300mm, f/9, ISO 1600, 1/160 sec exposure time), and it was plain lucky to be so sharp at that slow shutter speed. This is why I take so many photos and use so few.
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 10:02 AM•Views: 114
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This is a poor shot of an immature eagle as shown by the speckled feathers and lack of white head and tail feathers, which show up at 5 years of age. I included this to go with the next one. It is 300mm, f/9, ISO 1600, but only 1/125 sec, and that slow speed shows. See the next photo.
Capture Date: Aug 28, 2013 10:05 AM•Views: 114
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