Nature Notes

September 15, 2012

Photographing Swallows in flight

Filed under: Birds,Photography Tips — Tags: , , — Harold Stiver @ 6:00 am

A Tree Swallow in Flight

Swallows are such swift and unpredictable fliers, it can be very difficult to capture an image of them in flight. On a lovely May morning, I went to a Tree Swallow nesting box to try a set up. Tree Swallows are very confiding, and especially to someone who is in a car nearby. I set up my camera a few feet from the nesting box and manually focused just in front of the entrance. I then hooked up a remote shutter release which I was able to operate from inside the car.

As the birds entered and left, I tried to time the shutter release to get them in flight. Of course, just a very small percentage worked out, but these few were an exciting result. The image below shows the full image before the nesting boxwas cropped out.

Photographing Swallows in flight


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Photographing Diving Ducks

Filed under: Photography Tips — Tags: , , — Harold Stiver @ 6:00 am
Red-breasted Merganser Diving

Red-breasted Merganser Diving

I was photographing Red-breasted Mergansers recently and decided I would try to get an image of one diving. I cannot give you a good reason for wanting to do such an odd thing but it gave me two quick results

  • I was able to take a lot of picture of splashing water and no duck
  • I realized my reactions sucked

However, after watching them for a few hours, I realized that they often had a “tell”, something that would let me know they were going to dive. Not always, but occasionally they would tense or hunch a bit, before they dived. Most of my attempts were still unsuccessful, but I was able to get a few images. And here they are.


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September 9, 2010

Night on the Midway

Filed under: Ontario,Photography Tips — Tags: , , , , — Harold Stiver @ 6:00 am

Paris Fair, Ontario

Paris Fair, Ontario

Photography is a good excuse to do things we don’t usually do. I haven’t been to a fair since my children were young, and I wanted to take some long exposure shots of the midway rides at night.I went to the local fair here in Paris, Ontario, and it turned out to be a lot of fun.There was not a lot of technique involved, I set the ISO at 50 to minimize the noise and this translated into shutter speeds of 6-10 seconds. Of course, at those slow speeds, a tripod is a necessity.

Paris Fair, Ontario Paris Fair, Ontario
Paris Fair, Ontario Paris Fair, Ontario
Paris Fair, Ontario Paris Fair, Ontario

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