Did you bring food ?

The young birds are strong enough to look out of the nest, almost

ready to fly out. Please see description with photo for technical

details. Handheld and quickly moving away to allow the parents to

come in to feed.

How did you hold the camera, paper, and aluminum foil?

How did you hold all that stuff and take a picture?

Man, what an angry, demanding, obnoxious glare. Kinda reminds me of the looks I get every day from my teenage kids. Too old to be cooped up, too young to take care of themselves. Time to graduate.

Some people ask how I could hold it all in my hands, here is the answer :

I used a Shaytech flash bouncer as shown in this thread flashbouncer

, so I did not have to hold it with my hand.

and since this is normally used for bouncing within light interiors and this

shot was outdoors you have to add something to bounced the light

forward again (and down in front of the camera since this was a macro shot).

 

 

To do that I covered a CD box in aluminium foil and held it with my left hand ( which was also supporting the lens barrel) in an angle above the camera.

 

What also works well is one of those cheap dust mask you can use to cover your mouth and nose for dusty do-it-yourself work. Cover it in aluminium foil and you have a real, almost parabolic, spotlight.

 

And of course thanks to Shay for the initial idea of this simple bouncer.

 

 

Quite extraordinary

The photo is superb but how did you do it? How many hands do you have?

Wonderful! you have captured a great moment.

By the way, where are you from? It doesn't ring me a bell by D.K.

Outstanding shot!

wow :) did he hold this expression while you toyed around with the aluminum foil or did he get more and more upset as you stood there? :)

"Hey you kids, get outta my yard!"

nice timing...great lighting and composition