Incredible Blue Skies

Crofts at Drumbuie (Canon EOS 5D 60 mm, 1/50 sec at f/20, ISO 200)

Another beautiful day today and I managed to get about an hour out with the camera after dropping Ciara off at the school bus.  These are some of the shots I got.  I used a polarising filter for most of these shots which has really emphasised the blue skies and the clouds.  Also with the deep shade caused by the low sun I had to use HDR for the shots of the buildings to avoid large areas of silhouette.

Barn at Drumbuie (Canon EOS 5D 42 mm, 1/250 sec at f/22, ISO 400)

Croft Houses - Drumbuie (Canon EOS 5D 67 mm, 1/160 sec at f/22, ISO 400)

Crofts at Drumbuie (Canon EOS 5D 93 mm, 1/50 sec at f/20, ISO 200)

Old Red Fergie (Canon EOS 5D 53 mm, 1/320 sec at f/7.1, ISO 400)

This shot was a bit fortunate as the bird flew right past me and perched on this post not too far away.  However, I didn't have much time and forgot to change the aperture to get a slightly better depth of field and increase the ISO to keep the shutter speed up, and at extreme range and maximum zoom I think there is a little bit of camera shake, plus the auto focus refused to work proper.  So all in all not too bad a result.

Sparrowhawk (Canon EOS 5D 300 mm, 1/320 sec at f/8.0, ISO 200)