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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.

EXIF: D70, 70-300G, 1/50 at f4.2, no flash, handheld.
Comments welcome.
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I really like the warmness of this shot (yay for el cheapo torch!) It has a very "Harry Potter" feel to it somehow.

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

Glad you like it K. 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.

Unfortunately there was no correspondence from Hogwarts in it's claws.....

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

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!

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...

Tim

Ha, he does look a bit like the proverbial stunned mullet, but I like the surrounding stark black, looks eerie...

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..


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.