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Making-of-pics - how do you take your pictures? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter TobiasK
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Much more casual usually - walking with the camera, shots taken handheld, braced against a convenient object when available. Alternatively, from a comfy armchair by my backroom window, with the camera mounted on a tripod and remote release used. I dont do a great deal of photography from permenant hides - their positioning is often not want I would choose for photography, and I dont own a portable hide. Sometimes the car is used as a mobile hide though.
mike from ebbw
Well-known member
This is one of my favourite Nuthatch shots and how it was done.I built the hide and set up a feeding station with my 8 year old daughter back in the winter.It is still going strong but is too dark at the moment because of the foliage.Looking forward to getting some shots of the winter finches etc.The hide is on the right hand side of the pic.You can just make out the end of my lens.
Thats a fab photo by the way!
Thats a fab photo by the way!
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great shots... perhaps this should inspire me to use my hide more often, I'd love a feeding station like yours Mike.
Tobias - do you have a tiny hide, that 100-400 looks massive!
Tobias - do you have a tiny hide, that 100-400 looks massive!
Thanks makes sense...
If I had a friend like that I'd be tempted to push him in the river
TobiasK
Well-known member
Hi again,
*Mike*
may i show your two pics at another forum?
at
http://www.dforum.net/showthread.php?t=503656
we are collecting all sorts of making-of-pics
of course i would post your name to show whom the pics belong to
would be really nice
thank you
Tobias
*Mike*
may i show your two pics at another forum?
at
http://www.dforum.net/showthread.php?t=503656
we are collecting all sorts of making-of-pics
of course i would post your name to show whom the pics belong to
would be really nice
thank you
Tobias
mike from ebbw
Well-known member
Hi Tobiask.
No problem.If you want to you can highlight the actual branch the Nuthatch was on.If you look at the long feeder log in the centre of the pic.Just to the left of the rockpile at the base you can see a short branch sticking upright.The bird was perched on there.This is a really interesting thread.I look forward to some other photographers replies.The gear used was an EOS 300d and a Sigma 135-400mm lens.
No problem.If you want to you can highlight the actual branch the Nuthatch was on.If you look at the long feeder log in the centre of the pic.Just to the left of the rockpile at the base you can see a short branch sticking upright.The bird was perched on there.This is a really interesting thread.I look forward to some other photographers replies.The gear used was an EOS 300d and a Sigma 135-400mm lens.
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TobiasK
Well-known member
Hi,
here some pics from today
as the storks were standing on a flat are, i had to creep to them ;-)
my clothes were all wet, but it was worth it
the final distance was about 10 meters (30 feet ?)
here are the pics
350D (Rebel XT), 100-400 + 1,4 Kenko, 1/500, Iso 200
and how it was done ;-)
Bye
Tobias
here some pics from today
as the storks were standing on a flat are, i had to creep to them ;-)
my clothes were all wet, but it was worth it
the final distance was about 10 meters (30 feet ?)
here are the pics
350D (Rebel XT), 100-400 + 1,4 Kenko, 1/500, Iso 200
and how it was done ;-)
Bye
Tobias
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mike from ebbw
Well-known member
Brilliant Tobias!Are you an army sniper by any chance?(lol)
I am surprised there has been no other input from the loads of photographers on here.Its a great thread and very interesting.Come on guys!
I am surprised there has been no other input from the loads of photographers on here.Its a great thread and very interesting.Come on guys!
bob hastie
Well-known member
Hi Tobias
If I had any secrets I would happily share them. However, apart from wearing camo gear I use nothing else.
Watching this thread with interest
If I had any secrets I would happily share them. However, apart from wearing camo gear I use nothing else.
Watching this thread with interest
Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
Nothing to share myself Mike - I am a walker who takes along a Camera and snatches a shot as and when a opportunity comes. I do try to wear dullish/greenish clothing but that is about it. I don't think I have ever stayed in one place more that a minute. Not that I am knocking anyone who uses Hide's or such it is just that I have not got the patience to do so (wish I had sometimes).
Keith Reeder
Watch the birdie...
Same here, Roy - I go out, I find birds, I photograph 'em.
With all due respect to its proponents, I've got no real interest in setting up a hide and an outdoor stage/studio, or doing this long distance, remote control bird photography - it strikes me that there's only a small step from this to the "photographer" not being there at all and setting the camera up to trigger automatically when a bird is near.
With all due respect to its proponents, I've got no real interest in setting up a hide and an outdoor stage/studio, or doing this long distance, remote control bird photography - it strikes me that there's only a small step from this to the "photographer" not being there at all and setting the camera up to trigger automatically when a bird is near.
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mike from ebbw
Well-known member
I agree with the fact that there is a lot more satisfaction in seeing a bird,stalking to within range and getting a good shot.I find the hide method works for me as I work 60+ hours a week and with the weather being like it has been I have to pinch the odd hour here and there with the camera.With that in mind I would rather go to somewhere where I am virtually guaranteed to get something.
Clive Watson
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit ampheta
Agree with Mike. Stalking is good because it's a challenge and there are only so many species that come to a feeding station but hides (almost) invariably offer closer views in my experience, maybe that's because I'm a rubbish stalker! Going slightly off track, I've yet to perfect the art of crawling along on my belly whilst trying to manoeuvre a large lens, has anyone got any tips?
I do most of my local photography on the farmland attached to where I work. I'm intending to make a feeding station using Mike's brushwood hide idea, I've had a lot of trouble with sheep attacking my dome hide! In the meantime I'm using the car as a hide. Most of the time I don't get anything but Stock Doves. In fact I often end up photographing little else! I'll post a picture of the site if I can remember to bring in my small lens to take one with!
I do most of my local photography on the farmland attached to where I work. I'm intending to make a feeding station using Mike's brushwood hide idea, I've had a lot of trouble with sheep attacking my dome hide! In the meantime I'm using the car as a hide. Most of the time I don't get anything but Stock Doves. In fact I often end up photographing little else! I'll post a picture of the site if I can remember to bring in my small lens to take one with!
mike from ebbw
Well-known member
Hi Clive.
When stalking in the open I usually lie belly down with my elbows supporting my camera/lens in front of me ready to shoot.I then just drag myself forward with my elbows.
One tip I will give you when you build your hide is never leave any birdfood in the hide when you leave.I tried this to save me carrying it back and forth and got a PM from my mate Luke (BF member) to say that a sheep had got in and destroyed the hide trying to get out!
When stalking in the open I usually lie belly down with my elbows supporting my camera/lens in front of me ready to shoot.I then just drag myself forward with my elbows.
One tip I will give you when you build your hide is never leave any birdfood in the hide when you leave.I tried this to save me carrying it back and forth and got a PM from my mate Luke (BF member) to say that a sheep had got in and destroyed the hide trying to get out!
Clive Watson
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit ampheta
I think my 600mm is too big to support this way. I could lie it on the ground of course, but then low-lying plants and stuff tends to get in the way. Or I could lean it on a bag, but then that's one more thing to drag along with me. What I need is something like a monopod that's a foot long!
I've already learnt the hard way about leaving food in a hide. The problem was not sheep but squirrels. The food was in a sturdy plastic box but they still knawed their way in. And they tore several holes in the hide, being too stupid to find the door at the back.
I've already learnt the hard way about leaving food in a hide. The problem was not sheep but squirrels. The food was in a sturdy plastic box but they still knawed their way in. And they tore several holes in the hide, being too stupid to find the door at the back.
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