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Mar 2, 2008

Seal Rocks

Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia view map

Seal Rocks 2 km south-west of Phillip Island - colony of few thousands fur seals.
Photo taken at 17:48 from a boat on 2 hour long seal watching cruise.
This was the first time I was using camera on a ship at sea. Lens image stabilization is probably not too effective at compensating sea waves. From over 400 photos taken during these two hours, more than half were completely blurred. It seems that "1/focal length" rule for calculating longest possible hand-held exposure doesn't work at sea.
Camera settings: 90 mm zoom, AV mode, ISO-400.
Converted from Raw with color temperature set to 5550K.

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF-S 55-250 mm IS
90 mm, ISO-400, 1/1600 sec, f/6.3 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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