Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clive Moss <clive.moss@gmail.com> wrote: > Great image. You must get a lot of exercise in an hour to get that > kind of shot - great angle, right background. > >On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:55 PM, <wildlightphoto@earthlink.net> wrote: >> Last weekend's family activities left little time for my usual sort of photography >> but I did find in a forested park for an hour or so, where >> I photographed a Brown Creeper: >> >> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/certhiidae/brcr00.html > At each tree the bird feeds from I'm dashing from left to right or vice versa as the bird spirals around the tree, calculating the angle where the light will be adequate and the bird will be at the correct elevation, planting the monopod where I think the correct angle is, find the bird in the viewfinder & follow (& follow-focus) as it scoots up and around the tree trunk. Once the bird is too high for a good angle I try to guess which tree it will drop to, dash into position, and adjust position once the creeper chooses its next tree. Meanwhile adjusting monopod head tilt resistance, tighter for the between-tree dashes, loosening slightly but not too much to follow the bird's ascent once I plant the monopod. Oh yeah, it's also manual exposure because the backgrounds can change substantially from one moment to the next, enough to fool any AE system. Excersize? Yup. This little bird kept me busy. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com ? What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint