Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Philippe AMARD wrote: > Thanks all for your interest. > > And thanks Doug for the photo to illustrate the explanations given. > > In my case, I'm not sure they really intended to take off - they > simply "ricocheted" /bounced for about 300 yards then gave up and > stayed there. > It may have been for them a way to get there faster and I didn't > notice they were actually paddling, I mean the feet didn't "run". > They simply bounced. maybe coming in for a high speed landing ? I've seen that here with other species of ducks... I never thought I could capture this in a single still photo... Steve > > > I've just uploaded the other two shots I took ( cropped for curious > minds to see the legs). You'll see that the feet don't seem to run. > Rather, it's like skiing, or hydrofoils. > The intial picture is number two of three. > The first shot is labelled nb 3, and the last one number 2, could be > confusing, the were actually fly/gliding from right to left and not > in the reverse ;-) . > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Oiseaux/Ricochets+_1+sur+1_-3.jpg.html > > > > > Steve - camera speed was 1/640. > > Thanks all for your interest and lights. > Philippe > > > Ric Carter wrote: > >> Actually, they're more like footprints. Swans (and many other >> water fowl) run across the water very fast to take off. You are >> seeing the footprints at different stages of splash - sort of a >> realtime version of time lapse photography. >> >> ric >> >> >> On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Steve Barbour wrote: >> >>> I see the bird frozen in space but the water kicked up from each >>> wingbeat...was there some trickery or mutiple images involved? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > http://www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/