"NIGHT HERONS" / "NATTHEGRER"

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/20, ISO 3200

No, these are NOT night herons, these are GREY HERONS, but the pictures are all shot at night time …. on feeding & sleeping Hungarian herons. The pictures come with extensive use of artificial lighting, cold light as backlight & warmer & softer light up front, and some of the situations also benefit from the heaviest rain ever recorded in the last Hungarian decade (!). I wanted to post a couple of these "night herons" together with other stuff from Hungary, …. but in the end I could not choose between them, 

so these are all exclusively : night shots.

Hope you like them. 

The other stuff will hopefully come later.

Thanks to Bence Matè for help, inspiration & great company during 7 days & 7 nights of intense photographic work.

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/20, ISO 2500 

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/6, ISO 3200 

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/5, ISO 1800

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/25, ISO 1000 

Grey heron catching a flopping fish

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/13, ISO 6400

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/25, ISO 1250

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/25, ISO 5000 

D4, 70-200 2,8, f/2,8, 1/25, ISO 4500

D4, 70-200 2,8, f/2,8, 1/60, ISO 320

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/20, ISO 400

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/30, ISO 900

Grey heron holding a flopping fish

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/15, ISO 1800

Two grey herons & one white egret …. sleeping the night off.

D4, 70-200 2,8, f/2,8, 1/25, ISO 1000

Early morning situation with a mix of warm artificial lighting & cold natural light.

D4, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/160, ISO 4000