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10-NOV-2014 Laura Milholland

All Aboard!
by Laura Milholland

San Francisco Zoo, CA

This little House Sparrow landed on the train car right behind the engineer,
just before we left the station for the zoo ride.
I thought it was a good time for a limited DOF to have only the bird in focus.
Although I used f/6.3 - I was zoomed out and a bit of distance from both the bird and the engineer, so it did give a shallow depth of field that I wanted.
It would have been a better shot without the oof greens on the left, but that was out of my control.

Nikon D5100 ,AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
1/160s f/6.3 at 300.0mm iso500 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time10-Nov-2014 12:09:15
MakeNikon
ModelNIKON D5100
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length300 mm
Exposure Time1/159 sec
Aperturef/6.3
ISO Equivalent500
Exposure Bias-0.33
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Metering Mode
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program
Focus Distance

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Guest 16-Nov-2014 01:02
Well done! Love the effect it has on the overall image. Bird doesn't seem that shy at all.
Breezanemom13-Nov-2014 14:25
I love the DOF you managed to get. :)
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