fred_j._lord

I haven't been doing too much pretty photography lately so I went back and found some from earlier this year.

She does have a lovely profile doesn't she?

 

I see it's been snowing here a fair bit I may get some nice snow shots over the next few days. I hope to get into Regina's assignment this week as well.

I hate to say it but the TTL flash isn't showing for me. It looks like it's 99.99% available light here. She is beautiful, however.

 

I can't find the EXIF data on this image. What was the shutter speed?

Full frame so that you can see all the vegetation around her.

Michael: I like the coy feeling of this image. Too bad we were unable to find the bulls up toward Lone Pine Lake that morning. We should try again in the fall.

Since this is a National Park, there are loads of people staring at her everyday. She was about 75 yards away across a marshy river side area so wasn't plagued by the usual tourist walking right up to her. She was aware of us but seemed to have no calf and as long as we maintained our distance it was cool.

Everything is lovely and dreamy here. Mysterious and mystical (no pun intended). What, other than red earth, lends the color and texture to the road?

Sorry I haven't been posting lately. I've been doing a lot of dog shots and they really aren't something I would post at this

point.

This young animal has a wonderful expression of curiousity. They were all over the place last week. I may be able to join you for an expedition to find them.

It's a lesser version of the 10D. I guess we'll have to wait a couple of more months to see the 1Dx or whatever it's called.

it's the tension that gets you as you wait with your trigger finger twitching, waiting for the "decisive moment." I couldn't take more than about 30 minutes at a time without a break. We have only about 6-7 hummers left now. They gave up on us when the feeders ran dry over the weekend. Same thing happened last year.

The flash just won't keep up. I did put the hammer down for the labrador shooting session. I couldn't do it any other way. He moved too fast and there was no flash to worry about. Do you think the new 1Dx will help us get better? I just want a wider angle lens available. I miss not being able to get under 26mm effective focal length. Even the 1Dx is supposedly still 1.3:1. That would make it 21mm effective. I used to love my old 17mm fixed lens on the A-1s. I also want to have autofocus with an aperture of f/8. The 1D does that I think. Oh well, in a few days we'll find out. Any juicy rumors you've heard?

Also obviously I should have gone around to the sun side but. . .

the road which would then be in the background was lined with stopped tourists snapping away with their cameras. There were four of these big fellows scratching and grazing here. I'm attaching an image of the other three of them for your pleasure. I believe they are all somewhat less endowed antlerwise than this one.

 

Thanks for all your comments. I did tone down the white reflection in the background.

Saw numerous bull elk and two bull moose today and they all still had velvet on their antlers. The elk weren't dealing with it

as well as the moose. This one was rubbing his antlers against the willows constantly.

Just got back from nearly three days away and we are down to only four or so hummingbirds. It may be over for this year.

This particular frame was made at 1/1000 sec @ f/8, ISO 400 in late afternoon sunlight. The light coming from the right is the sun and the fill light is the on camera flash. I've stated before that I think it takes at least 1/10,000 sec to semi-reliably stop their wings from blurring in any way.

I wouldn't argue if I were sent a nice 40x30 print of this image. Sometimes the net and the small image sizes necessary to keep it running work against what are truly fine images. I think I could spend some time looking at this one if it were on my wall at the aforementioned size. Very nice work.

In the butterfly pavilion, that is. It may not be a native of the Keys but they certainly had them inside the display.

 

Very nice image of a beautiful insect.

I might have been tempted to tone down the cyan/blue cast just a bit but the image works very well as is.

Don't let that discourage you. I'll be glad to comment on your work for whatever my comments might be worth.

1/3000 sec @ f/8. ISO 400 with on camera flash to make the gorget glow.

 

I've read that it takes about 1/10,000 sec to reliably stop the wing motion. Most dedicated Hummer shooters use about 1/20,000 to 1/30,000 second duration strobes so as to take no chances and freeze the motion totally.

Wonderful colors and contrast. The background is interesting but noninterfering. Lovely.

The larger catchlight that is. The slave was at the left and set on 1/16 power to fill the breast area in.

This young girl was flitting in and out of the flowers next to the feeder I had set up on. She stayed so long I swung, focused and shot. I was just happy to get something out of it as the slave was pointed the opposite direction. The light here is just from the on camera flash.

Lovely and dramatic.