chuck barker wrote:
JUST TOOK THIS PIC WHILE WATCHING BRONCO GAME FROM MY SIDE YARD DOOR THRU MY SCREEN DOOR HE WAS A TALL BIRD???
I think it's a Ferruginous Hawk.
SonnyE wrote:
Now I'm doing time-lapse photography.
I started with stars, and have done a series on clouds as well.
Recently, I was hoping for starry nights, I was given clouds. I adapted.
I like it. I can set it, and forget it.
Next morning wake up to a nice pile of exposures to assemble into a time lapse video.
Or set it and then stop it and move it to something else interesting like an unfolding sunset.
Then make the video files and blend them in a way I think interesting. Add titling, captioning, and endings.
And it can take as many as two-three thousand frames to execute a few minutes of action in a video.
Add music to choreograph the scenes.
And give it away on the web.
Because I'm not counting.
I'm enjoying myself. And sometimes people tell me they enjoy what I have to share as well.
But I don't do it for others, I do it because I like to.
And to me, that is what counts.
And I'll share with you as well:
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I like it, Sonny. I especially like the one with the Milky Way and clouds. That must have taken a long time.
Cryppy wrote:
I'd like to connect with experienced and knowledgeable photographers within an hour or two of my home in Gouldsboro, especially Nikon shooters. Anybody out there interested?
You might try to see if there is a meetup group for photographers in your area. Meetup.com is one of the few social networking sites that I like. (Of course, UHH is another!)
Welcome to the group. My record is 5,400 for one day. It was at a Gladiator Rock 'n Run. I was set up at the last obstacle where the participants had to crawl underneath barbed wire through a mud pit. That was a lot of fun.
minniev wrote:
A mac will automatically want to put your photos into the Photos program. But there is a way to over-ride it.
Here is what I do, and if you're trying to do something different, tell us what and we will help.
I download using the built-in download program Image Capture. I download straight into a folder I have prepared in the folder hierarchy I use on my external drive. Then I import them into LR. They never go into Photos unless for some reason I put a few there on purpose. Photos will not let you export directly into LR or Photoshop, so it makes things to complicated for me, I don't use it.
To do something like this you must prevent the mac from using Photos. Here is a link to explain it better than I can http://osxdaily.com/2015/05/31/stop-photos-opening-automatically-mac-os-x/ but do ask more questions as you move along. Lots of mac users here.
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llamb wrote:
I took my then ten year old nephew squirrel hunting some years back. We each sitting against oak trees about 100 feet apart and watching each other's tree. He started playing around with a injured rabbit call. After his third try, a Red-tailed hawk landed right on his knee. He froze! The hawk cocked his head left and right and stared at him for ten seconds before taking off. That's all the poor kid talked about for days.
~Lee
That's an amazing experience! Thanks for sharing it for all of us to enjoy. You didn't have a camera with you, did you?
SonnyE wrote:
I think that probably makes you an old Whippersnapper. :P :lol:
:) :) yep - look the part too.
Thanks to all of you for your responses. I'm going to follow ElGee's lead and go natural without any extra lures. I'll have extra time soon anyway with retirement just around the bend.
davidrb wrote:
Some of us spend sums of money that allow us to obtain sophisticated photographic equipment that we use to "safely" shoot wild, and dangerous animals from afar. Now, you want to get "up close and personal" with coyotes and foxes? You are new at this, aren't you?
Yep, I'm one of those too with 48 years photography experience and over $100k spent on gear!
ElGee wrote:
WOW! I don't think calls or baiting animals is ethical if you want to call yourself a wildlife photographer. I've been photographing wildlife for over a decade and it never dawned on me to draw an animal out of it's natural setting or alter it's natural behavior. IMHO that is not wildlife photography. I would not even know what to call it.
Thank you ElGee. That's a very interesting and compelling perspective. Gives me something to contemplate and evaluate spiritually.
LFingar wrote:
Foxes are very shy of people normally. I've never heard of a call for them. They have excellent senses of smell, hearing and sight. I've gotten some good shots of a pair that used to raid my bird feeders back in the spring. I thought that was pretty cool until a rabid fox showed up and charged me. I beat it with the lawn chair I was sitting on and it finally went back into the woods, only to show up an hour later at a house across the stream from mine. It attacked a dog, which killed it.
We have plenty of coyotes around here also. If you intend to try to attract them keep in mind that they hunt in packs. In addition to your camera, have a gun with you.
Bait, if it is legal where you live, is probably the best way to attract either species. Unless you know how to sound like an injured rabbit!
In either case, if you plan to interact with predators, be prepared for anything. It's not a Walt Disney movie.
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Thanks LF. Good advice. I've had a couple of (non-rabid) fox encounters. The best was when I was trying to photograph a particular bird. I was sitting in a folding canvas chair in a wooded area between a river (to my right) and a cliff (to my left). I heard some critter crawling along the side of the cliff from behind me toward me. I repositioned myself with my camera so I could photograph it when it came alongside me. I got two good photos of it. One, when he heard my camera clicking and he looked right at me. I was fortunate to have my camera set to spot focusing so I got him focused instead of strands of weeds between us. The other was right after that when he turned away from me and slowly crawled up the cliff. "His ears turned backward" so he could hear if I was coming after him! It was really cool. It took me a while to figure out what it really was.
We do have a lot of coyotes and bobcats in this area. I'm hoping to (safely) get some good images.
lightcatcher wrote:
Injured rabbit call works great for coyotes, foxes and bobcats. Bobcats will pounce on the blind if using a mouth call. Manufactures do make mechanical/recorded calls, well hidden the animal will approach the hide and try to figureout where the rabbit is. Great photo ops.
Sounds like I better have a secure hiding place if I use a mouth call! A remote electronic call may be worth the money. Thanks lightcatcher.
Kmgw9v wrote:
Like "Here Kitty, Kitty"?
I haven't had much luck with that one even with cats :)
Do any of you have any experience with predator calls to lure animals like coyotes and foxes in order to photograph them?
RichardSM wrote:
...it is more likely it's all plastic or something on the order of polycarbonate material...
That's a great point ... and a huge factor in cost consideration.