What do you do when???
Jan 25, 2012 22:17:17 #
You've just sat down on the back porch with a fresh grilled ham and cheese, put your feet up, set down your glass of sweet tea. As you open your book, understanding exposure a Pilliated Woodpecker lands in a tree 30 feet away on a branch less then 50 feet off the ground. The lighting is perfect. Your camera is in the house and not set up. Your dog is sitting on the deck, next to your chair hoping you will drop so much as a pickle slice. Knowing you can concentrate on the book and wouldn't enjoy the ham and cheese as much wondering if...........
What do you do?????
Then I will tell you what I did.
What do you do?????
Then I will tell you what I did.
Jan 25, 2012 22:23:07 #
I've been in that situation many times. It's a 50/50 chance to slowly retreat to the house to get your camera to return to find nothing to take a picture of. Then other times I figure I'll miss it anyway and stay to watch what they do which is better than missing it altogether. However, I tend to second guess myself on I shoulda' .....
Jan 25, 2012 22:39:14 #
Jan 25, 2012 23:20:58 #
I'd have a hard time sitting down with a book on cameras without a camera to experiment with. But under the circumstances, I'd get up, grab the camera and come back just in time to take a picture of the branch the woodpecker was sitting on.
Jan 25, 2012 23:22:38 #
RocketScientist wrote:
I'd have a hard time sitting down with a book on cameras without a camera to experiment with. But under the circumstances, I'd get up, grab the camera and come back just in time to take a picture of the branch the woodpecker was sitting on.
(smile) that's why I said keep on reading.....
Jan 25, 2012 23:31:29 #
Jan 26, 2012 01:20:40 #
I am never with out camera or recording medium. Armed with eyes and memory I am always ready. i will often enough leave behind the hardware variety, and enjoy what I can view undistracted by the technicalities. Now if only we could download that memory to our hard drives. Who knows, it might come to pass one day. Now talk about an inherent need for censorship- - - - -
Jan 26, 2012 08:27:44 #
My camera is usually secured to my tripod sitting near the doorwall. It may or may not have the the right lens attached.....I'd slowly go inside and set my sandwich in a safe place and bring out the camera with whatever lens happens to be attached and take the shot.....you can crop it down if the lens was too wide.....
Jan 26, 2012 08:34:21 #
I would eat and enjoy my sandwich, pet my dog, drink my tea, watch the bird until it flew off, go get my camera...in that order, and go back to my reading.....
I would also be reminded...not to go anywhere without my camera.
Live your moment and enjoy it. Nothing good about a cold grill cheese sandwich.
I would also be reminded...not to go anywhere without my camera.
Live your moment and enjoy it. Nothing good about a cold grill cheese sandwich.
Jan 26, 2012 11:33:57 #
Canoe50d wrote:
You've just sat down on the back porch with a fres... (show quote)
I would sit back, enjoy watching the woodpecker, and share my sandwich with the dog. Tomorrow I would do exactly the same thing, only I would have my camera with me ready to go.
Jan 26, 2012 12:30:07 #
All of the above thoughts would run through my brain until I realized I did have the phone on my cell to try taking a shot with. Then with my luck as I steady a shot through the phones camera I would nervously drop the phone onto the edge of the plate scaring the dog who would bark and frighten the bird off and then he would eat my sandwhich and I'd have a blurry picture of the deck taken as the phone bounced off the plate.
But thats just me
But thats just me
Jan 26, 2012 12:30:19 #
Jan 26, 2012 12:59:13 #
Reach in you Holster,get your gun, shoot the bird, watch as the dog retrives and eats the bird while you pat him on the head and enjoy you sandwich. Then go in the house and get you camera to take a beautiful picture with out the bird obstructing you view.
Jan 26, 2012 13:24:46 #
Canoe50d wrote:
You've just sat down on the back porch with a fres... (show quote)
I had the same problem a few years ago. I was out fishing, but not catching anything, and I noticed an eagle flying and it landed in a tree on a island in the lake where I was fishing. Didn't have my camera, but decided to go about two miles in my boat, pick up my camera and come back. I really didn't think the eagle would still be there, but the fishing was bad, so I had nothing to lose. When I got back, the eagle was still there, so I decided to slow down my pontoon boat and go tward the eagle. I took many pictures with my D90, till it took off. These are a couple of the pictures I took.
Jan 26, 2012 15:41:52 #
Tomphoenix wrote:
I would enjoy the moment,get camera after he left on it's own.
Yep, and then put out some suet and seeds to try to lure him back. You don't want to spook it right away. 8-)
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