Wildlife and Wild Animals

[austin granger]

Passing Birds, Sauvie Island by Austin Granger, on Flickr

[thakursam]

Just for fun







360mm Yamasaki Congo @ f/11, 1/25th with Packard shutter, 8X10 X-ray film...out my dining room window

Awesome efforts, Catching humming bird on Pro-DSLR itself is big task and you sir did impossible !!!

[bobbotron]

Passing Birds, Sauvie Island by Austin Granger, on Flickr

This is really fantastic, what a great way to capture some motion and detail, all in one. Fun.

[Vaughn]

There is another thread on this topic. It got two or three images before being inactive.

Here is my post there;

I had a image all set up in the redwoods and started my exposure -- a herd of Elk showed up and started munching right in the scene I was photographing. It was a long (5 minutes or more) and none of the elk showed up in the image. When the bull started to make rude noises at me, I broke my record for breaking down the camera and getting into my pack!

A bear walked into my scene last month -- but stopped for about 3 to 5 seconds of a 45 second exposure...and did not show up the negative, either.

These three deer along Redwood Creek (Redwood National Park) were very tame and posed quite nicely for me (across the river and on the left). They were munching in the camp about 20 feet away before crossing the creek and bedding down for a mid-day nap.

The print is a 4x10 carbon print directly from the camera negative.

[StoneNYC]

Just for fun







360mm Yamasaki Congo @ f/11, 1/25th with Packard shutter, 8X10 X-ray film...out my dining room window

Good thing the dark slide is covering the bottom half of you in the mirror.... Looking pretty comfy there ... Hahaha!

So did the hummingbird come back? You got the shot on film but also on the ground glass, I mean that's at least a minute or more between it all, how did you get both?

[barnacle]

That's not sugar solution in the feeder - it's superglue!

Neil

[Rael]

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Wow, he sat nice and still for you.

[Drew Wiley]

I've managed some 8x10 shots of flying flocks of geese over big expanses of water, etc, but gave up on closeups of birds due to the cost of big film. My best LF
shot ever of wild animals involved wild mustangs in Nevada with a huge thunderhead looming overhead. I sold it to a horse fancier as a "one of a kind" print at a
premium price level, so won't ever print it again, and don't even have a personal copy.

[baro-nite]

Just lucky: the bird (a Green Heron) flew into the composition I had just finished setting up, and obligingly landed on just the right branch. This is a slight crop.



I had seen two Green Herons the day before. and at one point they both perched in this snag. I think they were young birds, because mature adults tend to be more skittish.

[stawastawa]

Austin, love the motion, Makes me want to try something with the swifts this fall. Maybe we should gather some LF camera there sometime? =)

Vaughn, that's a fairly small reproduction to share. can barely see the deer!