Donna Nook

Ben, Gary and I have decided to visit Donna Nook wildlife reserve tomorrow to get some shots of the seals and seal pups present at this time of year. We will be setting off at 4am in order to arrive and set up in time for the sunrise... the weather looks good too, supposedly a major sea fret will be present which i am excisted about, should give us some interesting shots. I have protected all my equipment with plastic bags and rubber bands as i hear the sand can play havoc with it.

I have been practising using a Nikon 80-400mm lens borrowed from college, fairly decent shots of the squirrels in my back garden. Only problem is the lens is really slow, both at focusing and the amount of light it lets in, because of this i have to shoot on really high ISO's just to get a fast enough shutter speed which results in grainy images.... i would rather have sharp grainy images than non grainy blurred ones, but i still really hate the grain and cant take any pride in the images im achieving with it. The 70-200mm 2.8 is a much better option for me even with the limited zoom range. I will be updating this blog from the location tomorrow.