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What have you focused on for hours? (1 Viewer)
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anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
yr taking the mickey right? just coz I keep posting them in my gallery (Red-whiskered Bulbul) 3
But, I was just wondering, does everybody else not keep the camera focused on an object just knowing something is going to land there, & sometimes after several hours, nothing has..... & so you don't have anything for yr efforts.
So you take a photo of the "perch" just for the hell of it.
Or am I odd - I've got photos of several perches I've focused on. |8)|
But, I was just wondering, does everybody else not keep the camera focused on an object just knowing something is going to land there, & sometimes after several hours, nothing has..... & so you don't have anything for yr efforts.
So you take a photo of the "perch" just for the hell of it.
Or am I odd - I've got photos of several perches I've focused on. |8)|
RAH
Well-known member
Yes, I have done that - watching a particular spot because it seems likely. And I've even taken a picture of it without any bird being there, and later admired how nice and sharp the picture came out and thinking how great a picture it would have been with a bird in it! But yes, this is pretty odd!
Rich
Rich
LOL. Sort of the same premise as why is the photo of the back of the bird crystal clear and the front capture stinks?RAH said:Yes, I have done that - watching a particular spot because it seems likely. And I've even taken a picture of it without any bird being there, and later admired how nice and sharp the picture came out and thinking how great a picture it would have been with a bird in it! But yes, this is pretty odd!
Rich
samuel walker
It's OK to be a little blue........
A green heron perched at the end of a log in a marsh that I just knew was going to uncoil and zap a fish.I couldn't dare look away and miss the capture.It took almost an hour of being focused on that bill when the strike came.He nicely held up his bluegill in the sunlight and toyed with it long enough for a few good frames.I considered the time well spent.
Sam
Sam
anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
Knew I couldn't be the only one - have several perch pictures with nothing on them, but thought I should keep them for the effort I put in.
The tap in the first picture I'm still watching (4 days now), from about 6' away - have got over 100 shots now on & around the tap, mainly bulbuls - but every now & again something else comes along to get zapped, but nothing apart from bulbuls worth showing yet - which was why I just had to show everybody "my tap" - |=o|
The tap in the first picture I'm still watching (4 days now), from about 6' away - have got over 100 shots now on & around the tap, mainly bulbuls - but every now & again something else comes along to get zapped, but nothing apart from bulbuls worth showing yet - which was why I just had to show everybody "my tap" - |=o|
mickporter
Oswaldtwistle birder
No we don't think you are odd at all.................................................... NURSE bring this man his injection!!!!!!!!!!!!
anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
Mickymouse
Ubuntu Linux user
I have been trying to ID the brand of your tap, it's not Crane by any chance?
Mick
Mick
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anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
Should've had a brunette in mind - there's more of them, & have a tendancy to perch more often in obvious placesweather said:
anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
Mickymouse said:
Will let you know, am off to stare at "my tap" for a few more hours - might take another photo. |8)|
cavan wood
Well-known member
I find this disturbing.
Since finding this site, it has taken up way too much of my time.
Since reading how everyone keeps lists of everything they've seen from every conceiveable vantage point, I am now starting to worry about whether the view from my toilet is adequate.
Now this....If I find myself staring through a camera lens for hours on end at a twig or a rock or a piece of garden apparatus, I will blame YOU birdforum. This is an evil place.
Cheers,
Scott
Since finding this site, it has taken up way too much of my time.
Since reading how everyone keeps lists of everything they've seen from every conceiveable vantage point, I am now starting to worry about whether the view from my toilet is adequate.
Now this....If I find myself staring through a camera lens for hours on end at a twig or a rock or a piece of garden apparatus, I will blame YOU birdforum. This is an evil place.
Cheers,
Scott
anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
You find that disturbing - you should feel for my neighbours.
Here am I living on Lamma Island in the S. China Sea - living amongst Expats & a larger community of local Chinese - largely an ageing population, & here is this foreigner sitting for hours on end under a green coloured mosquito net within 20' of a really smelly chicken pen in what to us are freezing temperatures (10-12c), and occasional rain.
I'm ok with it - but they seem to be having trouble - police have been round twice in 4 days.
Here am I living on Lamma Island in the S. China Sea - living amongst Expats & a larger community of local Chinese - largely an ageing population, & here is this foreigner sitting for hours on end under a green coloured mosquito net within 20' of a really smelly chicken pen in what to us are freezing temperatures (10-12c), and occasional rain.
I'm ok with it - but they seem to be having trouble - police have been round twice in 4 days.
anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
Oh.........., forgot to mention, police are still trying to work out what is so interesting about the tap.
Think they trying to work out what they can do about me, but I know they'll never get the tap to press charges, so I think I'll be ok.
Think they trying to work out what they can do about me, but I know they'll never get the tap to press charges, so I think I'll be ok.
anonymous_guy
Guy R.H. Miller
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