Your best animal shots!
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Click said:syncmaster191t said:
Nice shot ...and welcome to CR.
Thank you. I read the forum all the time but I don't post because I am pretty clueless concerning photography. ;D
I was two days at a swamp trying to make a photo of dragonflies. They were sitting on top of the camera crawling under it. One even tried to crawl in my ear looking for a nice place to sleep or put some eggs.
But they were extremely camera shy.
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syncmaster191t said:Click said:syncmaster191t said:
Nice shot ...and welcome to CR.
Thank you. I read the forum all the time but I don't post because I am pretty clueless concerning photography. ;D
I was two days at a swamp trying to make a photo of dragonflies. They were sitting on top of the camera crawling under it. One even tried to crawl in my ear looking for a nice place to sleep or put some eggs.
But they were extremely camera shy.
I'd say you are pretty good! I've never been able to get such a nice dragonfly photo. Welcome to CR
Edit- If you don't mind, what equipment and settings did you use to shoot the dragonfly? I rarely see them and they buzz by very fast and never seem to hold still.
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Since I upgraded to FF the longest lens I have is the 24-105. Good animal shots can be hard to come by with that lens.
Afternoon Snack by Joe Beckwith, on Flickr
With my older 55-250 on the T2i
IMG_3789 by Joe Beckwith, on Flickr
IMG_3917 by Joe Beckwith, on Flickr
Afternoon Snack by Joe Beckwith, on Flickr
With my older 55-250 on the T2i
IMG_3789 by Joe Beckwith, on Flickr
IMG_3917 by Joe Beckwith, on Flickr
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serendipidy said:I'd say you are pretty good! I've never been able to get such a nice dragonfly photo. Welcome to CR
Edit- If you don't mind, what equipment and settings did you use to shoot the dragonfly? I rarely see them and they buzz by very fast and never seem to hold still.
Here in switzerland we have a lot of ponds with nice paths made of wood so you can visit them. There you will find hundreds of dragonflies and also a lot of water snakes, birds and other various small insects.
If you wait near the water for a few minutes dragonflies will think that you are just a newly emerged tree and start ignoring you or even land on you.
Now you have to learn their flight path, usually they fly the same path all the time. So prefocus and wait till you have a chance to shoot.
I have a 60D and a 150 mm Sigma Macro. So I used rapid fire and tried to manually focus on the dragonfly. Perhaps you can use auto focus if you have a better camera.
My settings were: 1/125, f/9, no flash.
This is also example of a butterfly flying the same path for 20 minutes try to impress a mate. You would need a lot of luck to get such a shot. But if they do not alter their flight path at all its pretty easy to even focus in advance.
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Wow! lovely capture! I never thought there would be water snakes in Switzerland!syncmaster191t said:serendipidy said:I'd say you are pretty good! I've never been able to get such a nice dragonfly photo. Welcome to CR
Edit- If you don't mind, what equipment and settings did you use to shoot the dragonfly? I rarely see them and they buzz by very fast and never seem to hold still.
Here in switzerland we have a lot of ponds with nice paths made of wood so you can visit them. There you will find hundreds of dragonflies and also a lot of water snakes, birds and other various small insects.
If you wait near the water for a few minutes dragonflies will think that you are just a newly emerged tree and start ignoring you or even land on you.
Now you have to learn their flight path, usually they fly the same path all the time. So prefocus and wait till you have a chance to shoot.
I have a 60D and a 150 mm Sigma Macro. So I used rapid fire and tried to manually focus on the dragonfly. Perhaps you can use auto focus if you have a better camera.
My settings were: 1/125, f/9, no flash.
This is also example of a butterfly flying the same path for 20 minutes try to impress a mate. You would need a lot of luck to get such a shot. But if they do not alter their flight path at all its pretty easy to even focus in advance.
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Swamp Wallaby (AKA Black Wallaby)
Normally a nocturnal animal, for the past 3 months, I've noticed this one feeding during the day, about 1km from my place. Solitary by nature, and very shy, this one allowed me to spend 10min photographing it from 70-80m away, before it finally hopped away. A beautiful animal.
5D3 with 300mm f4 + 1.4x TC III (ISO 1600 due to fading light).
Normally a nocturnal animal, for the past 3 months, I've noticed this one feeding during the day, about 1km from my place. Solitary by nature, and very shy, this one allowed me to spend 10min photographing it from 70-80m away, before it finally hopped away. A beautiful animal.
5D3 with 300mm f4 + 1.4x TC III (ISO 1600 due to fading light).
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