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Postby Manta on Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:52 pm

Picked up a cheap rechargeable spotlight today so had to try it out tonight and went for a walk around some local scrub. Turned out the spotty gives a lovely warm light when it starts to run low... so I took advantage of it when this Tawny Frogmouth happened across my path.

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Postby kinetic on Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:00 am

I really like the warmness of this shot (yay for el cheapo torch!) It has a very "Harry Potter" feel to it somehow. :D
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Postby Manta on Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:03 am

kinetic wrote:I really like the warmness of this shot (yay for el cheapo torch!)


Glad you like it K. :D Regarding the torch: I'm not sure how long it'll last; after all, it was from Super "Cheap"!!

kinetic wrote:It has a very "Harry Potter" feel to it somehow. :D


Unfortunately there was no correspondence from Hogwarts in it's claws..... :wink:
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Postby blacknstormy on Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:06 am

very nice shot Manta - just as well there wasn't a letter in its claws .. it probably would have been a howler ;)

Glad to see you are getting out and taking shots .... told you the boogey man wouldn't get you :lol:
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Postby Manta on Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:09 am

Thanks Rel.

I still get a tad jumpy when I'm out there by myself - I'm sure I can hear blades of grass rubbing together!
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Postby Zeeke on Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:43 am

Bird has that stunned look like "What the F!!!! was that!!!" or "Damnit, 2 more minutes and my *Playbird* would be sticky"

Nice shot tho Simon, looks sharp... damn nice image...

Can i be the wuss then?? im not feeling brave about walking through a massive tree farm to take photos of critters...

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Postby mudder on Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:07 am

Ha, he does look a bit like the proverbial stunned mullet, but I like the surrounding stark black, looks eerie...
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Postby Manta on Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:43 am

Thanks guys. The lighting was just as it looked at the time - the spotlight was really powering down and only had enough left in it to give a feeble illumination of the bird but nothing else. Sort of set its own DOF.

It really contrasts with some later ones I took with flash once the spotlight had given up.
These were taken at 1/250, f11.

Focus was a bit off on this one..
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I don't mind this one; it's sharper than the one above but I don't think it's as interesting as the first one in this thread. I much prefer the subject looking straight at the camera.
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