Ok thank you!!
Wildlife Photography
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Alyssa-Bee
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Thank you! They're so tiny yet incredibly beautiful. I did a tiny bit more research on them now that a know their names and apparently the Western Pygmy-Blue is the smallest butterfly in the world! That's pretty cool!
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Left work the other day, pulled out of the parking lot and saw this guy standing off the side of the road and snapped a pic with my phone....
Had my DSLR in the passenger seat so I grabbed it and removed the sensor cover, pulled the lens out of the lens case and removed both caps, then I proceeded to bang them together like a Neanderthal before finally aligning the two red dots.
I eventually get the lens attached, point the camera out of the window and take this pic.....
What the heck? My cameras in Manual and the shutter is set on a 2 second delay. The last time I used it was for long exposures at dark. I had the rear screen turned off too which is where I normally check my settings.
I quickly spin the knob to TV (shutter priority). I throw the camera back up hit the shutter and got this pic.....
Now what? I turn the back screen on and realize my shutter speed is set at 1 second from previously shooting at night.
By this time the pheasant has moved into the middle of the street and I hear a truck coming from behind me. As I'm setting the shutter speed appropriately and changing the shutter to high speed continuous, an 18 Wheeler drives past me and heads straight for the bird.
I look up and say.....
"Now he's going to fly off....."
"He's going to fly off....."
"He's going to........"
"Uh oh....."
Wham.... the 18 Wheeler never checked up and smoked him doing around 30mph. I saw a cloud of feathers and watched the bird crash on the edge of the road. He was jumping and flipping and I grabbed a quick pic of him before he died.....
Well so much for getting a good pic. I've never seen a pheasant in the wild here in South AL. I know people farm raise them and release for hunts, I assume that's where he came from. Oh well, made a good dinner..... roadkill pheasnt, lol. Sure is one pretty bird....
Had my DSLR in the passenger seat so I grabbed it and removed the sensor cover, pulled the lens out of the lens case and removed both caps, then I proceeded to bang them together like a Neanderthal before finally aligning the two red dots.
I eventually get the lens attached, point the camera out of the window and take this pic.....
What the heck? My cameras in Manual and the shutter is set on a 2 second delay. The last time I used it was for long exposures at dark. I had the rear screen turned off too which is where I normally check my settings.
I quickly spin the knob to TV (shutter priority). I throw the camera back up hit the shutter and got this pic.....
Now what? I turn the back screen on and realize my shutter speed is set at 1 second from previously shooting at night.
By this time the pheasant has moved into the middle of the street and I hear a truck coming from behind me. As I'm setting the shutter speed appropriately and changing the shutter to high speed continuous, an 18 Wheeler drives past me and heads straight for the bird.
I look up and say.....
"Now he's going to fly off....."
"He's going to fly off....."
"He's going to........"
"Uh oh....."
Wham.... the 18 Wheeler never checked up and smoked him doing around 30mph. I saw a cloud of feathers and watched the bird crash on the edge of the road. He was jumping and flipping and I grabbed a quick pic of him before he died.....
Well so much for getting a good pic. I've never seen a pheasant in the wild here in South AL. I know people farm raise them and release for hunts, I assume that's where he came from. Oh well, made a good dinner..... roadkill pheasnt, lol. Sure is one pretty bird....
Waste not, want not.
Alyssa-Bee
Phoenix
Here are some pictures of an eastern bluebird I got a couple days ago. I tried to turn the shutter speed up, but I accidentally did the opposite. That was kind of disappointing, but atleast they're not too blury. They definitely could have been atleast a little sharper, though.
I miss whales when I moved to west Florida, but the weather is fantastic and the water is always warm!
Beautiful pictures!!!
You said you turned the shutter speed up, but it did the opposite. By any chance did you accidentally have it on the wrong setting? I get a lot of trouble from having it on the wrong setting often.
Alyssa-Bee
Phoenix
No, I just turned to wheel that adjusts the speed the wrong direction. I got a little too excited that a bird landed on a pole so I wasn't paying attention.Beautiful pictures!!!
You said you turned the shutter speed up, but it did the opposite. By any chance did you accidentally have it on the wrong setting? I get a lot of trouble from having it on the wrong setting often.
Oh. Whoopsy!No, I just turned to wheel that adjusts the speed the wrong direction. I got a little too excited that a bird landed on a pole so I wasn't paying attention.
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Lovely, all of them!
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