Wildlife images with macro lens, Cornwall

[mechanic]

Taken whilst camping on a deserted cliff top on the north coast of Cornwall, England. Hope you enjoy, please do comment or just take a look. I never use a tripod as i dont like being tied down with the camera. Hard to keep a steady hand at maximum zoom on a moving target i must say. then you have to worry about focusing exactly where the bird is. learnign experience and beautifull time.

The Beauty of Flight

1: scoping the cliffs


2: spotted me



3: belly shot, not a ho


4: glide decent


5: perfection through selection


6: disapointed I failed to focus this in time or hold a steady hand, i love the image anyhow


7: flap damage


8: hard turn at speed, again a shame about the shakey camera work


9: this one came past so fast i barely had time to keep it in the viewfinder before it vanished below the cliff and popped back up half a mile away.


10: just beautifull even with poor camera work


11: flaps out


12: ready for action



Creepy Crawlies

13: first afternoon found a spider re-building her web (blurred, boo camera man)


14: next morning i checked on her, fruits of her labours


15: save this for later


16: I wash my hands...


17: ..and my feets...


18: check my shiny wings...who da man?


19: I'll jump...I'll do it...I'm not messing around here...


20: the struggle to adulthood, i assume bitten and then slowly eaten by a spider before managing to emerge fully



Thanks for looking, i appreciate that is a large file size. Hope you enjoyed.

bat

[Shuffler]

Thanks... nice change of pace. <S>

[hlbly]

WOW ! Dewd you got skills !

[df_swans_84]

Some really great pics taken there bat nice camera work.....

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Which aperture were you using on the shots? If you're shooting handheld I recommend investing in a pro lense with 1.0 - 1.8 aperture to reduce blurring.

I use an EF50/1.8 when shooting handheld in anything but optimal lighting conditions.

[mechanic]

not sure exactly, i think here it says 'f5.6' what ever that means. I dont mess with apeture much i need to learn about it. Camera is a Canon 10D and the lens is Sigma 70-300mm APO. Thanks for looking all.

[Hajo]

Very nice!

[CptTrips]

Great pictures!

You might consider using a mono-pod.  It can help a great deal with high magnification steadiness, but is easy to move around with.

Looking forward to more.

Clear Skies,
Wab

[BnZs]

Huh...the Murderous Mossie Marauder has an eye for nature...interesting. 

[ghi]

The "beauty of the West"

I captured most this yesterday from my moving truck bellow, no special lens, just a low end 4.5 megapix Sony and my trucker photo skills.


Nevada


Arizona Canyon, I-15 N





Utah, I-80

Utah I-84

Utah,I-80,  my global warmer




Wyoming, I-80, my favoritte state , got under my skin, amazing ,looks like a territory forgotton since creation, high elevation , silence, winds and low clouds

[mechanic]

Beautifull pics Ghi, showing the blood vessles of a country. The circulatory system of the planet.

Each vehical is a red blood cell...speeding along its course to bring usefull elements to where they are needed in the earth's body. Thanks for showing!

[ghi]

not sure exactly, i think here it says 'f5.6' what ever that means. I dont mess with apeture much i need to learn about it. Camera is a Canon 10D and the lens is Sigma 70-300mm APO. Thanks for looking all.

Can you take pics like you got with this DSLR cameras without using both hands and constantly adjusting the lens??  I'm shooping for one, but i don't know much about them; I read the ratings for good entry level DSLR but are too many choices i'm confused, different ratings: Nikon or Cannon?

[SirFrancis]

Taken whilst camping on a deserted cliff top on the north coast of Cornwall, England. Hope you enjoy, please do comment or just take a look. I never use a tripod as i dont like being tied down with the camera. Hard to keep a steady hand at maximum zoom on a moving target i must say. then you have to worry about focusing exactly where the bird is. learnign experience and beautifull time.

Thanks for looking, i appreciate that is a large file size. Hope you enjoyed.

bat

 , you have talent! I would also consider trying a monopod.

[mechanic]

I think capturing the moment jsut takes a good eye its nature that has the talent Good advice to consider there also, thanks Wab and SF.
 Would a mono pod be small and light enough to not effect rock climbing conditions? Some place require a little agility and the camera bugs me enough hanging safely beneath me armpit on the strap. One thing i found that did work quite well was bracing my arms against rocks whilst sitting down as a sort of bipod.

[mechanic]

Can you take pics like you got with this DSLR cameras without using both hands and constantly adjusting the lens??  I'm shooping for one, but i don't know much about them; I read the ratings for good entry level DSLR but are too many choices i'm confused, different ratings: Nikon or Cannon?

The Canon D10 has a pretty good auto-focus funtion for landscapes or normal pictures. You can just point and click if you dont want to manual focus. No good to  use auto-focus for the zoom lens, because the auto-focus will focus on the background not the small object you want to look at. But for the pictures of your road this camera would be really easy to use even with one hand. It is quite expensive though. The one i use I share with my partner. They are really expensive so its only something to buy if you are going to make some money with it or really love pictures. The one we bought had a good discount through working for a camera shop. I'm not sure if this is the exact same model, or maybe a new one, here is a link anyway.

http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_40D/index.asp



here are some more, to give a sort of feel for where we were sleeping rough. Really love living in the wild for short times. most other humans were surfers, so barely humans infact, more white footed seals.  Of course...there is a good pub with food and ale that you can walk to from here so its not that wild


Landscape with the original lens I think these two. The first one on autofocus most likely, second one not so sure.
secret surf spot


edge of england



These two were from the far end of the beach using the zoom lens and manual focus. The light was pretty good for the moment thanks to some patchy cloud cover.

wave break


broken