Wildlife picture thread (905)
lifeisadream: I have plans for getting into an amazing water-body with stromatolites and some aquatic fauna helping some friends doing some research.
That sounds wonderful. I never scuba dived do you scuba dive? I don't have a working camera at the moment but I am thinking of buying a go pro camera in the future. Some of the wildlife I can find on my lawn alone are raccoons, armadillos, many kinds of birds including sandhill cranes, white ibis, cotton mouth (water moccasins) snakes, Florida (green) and Cuban (black) anoles (they look like the Geico gecko and some can change colors), tree frogs, big frogs and toads. This Summer my neighbor saw 2 black bears a mother and cub in my back yard at night. I never saw them but I did see their droppings. Thank you for starting this thread Robplum. It is so much better than the political crap.------ This thread is Archived ------
KarloradoFL: That sounds wonderful. I never scuba dived do you scuba dive? I don't have a working camera at the moment but I am thinking of buying a go pro camera in the future. Some of the wildlife I can find on my lawn alone are raccoons, armadillos, many kinds of birds including sandhill cranes, white ibis, cotton mouth (water moccasins) snakes, Florida (green) and Cuban (black) anoles (they look like the Geico gecko and some can change colors), tree frogs, big frogs and toads. This Summer my neighbor saw 2 black bears a mother and cub in my back yard at night. I never saw them but I did see their droppings. Thank you for starting this thread Robplum. It is so much better than the political crap.
Wow you are surrounded by lots of interesting animals!
Neither have I done scuba diving, a training and certification is required yet I have done snorkeling in several places. I am not fan of gadgets but I have a couple of cameras or so(from the cereal box
) yet not a GoPro (my daughter has one that i can borrow).
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robplum: you need fast camera cards and auto focusing camera to capture fast moving objects like birds in flight.
these days most later cameras include video functions that require fast processors requiring fast write seeds to disk. Fastest card i'm now using is a 64gig card that has a .300 M/sec write speed, another one that i use has .280 M/sec, both enable the camera bursts to capture detail so fast our eyes don't even detect until we upload the images into computer. You might like to check type of SD card your camera can handle and consider getting a faster card so your camera burst speed improves then hold the shutter down...like machine gun...
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these days most later cameras include video functions that require fast processors requiring fast write seeds to disk. Fastest card i'm now using is a 64gig card that has a .300 M/sec write speed, another one that i use has .280 M/sec, both enable the camera bursts to capture detail so fast our eyes don't even detect until we upload the images into computer. You might like to check type of SD card your camera can handle and consider getting a faster card so your camera burst speed improves then hold the shutter down...like machine gun...
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That was taken with a 1/1000 sec speed but I am not much into technicalities for my pictures because I know I can not beat Nat Geo photographers
Sometimes, I have to decide enjoying the momento or trying to get a photo and many times I have chosen to enjoy the momento.
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took me more than two weeks researching what camera to replace the dead olympus om-d e-m1 camera.
I've currently listed 8,229 bird photos in the Bird folder in Picasa, numinous times i've gone through deleting not so good images, probably most days birding i'd take between 200 and 500 photos and might at best keep twenty images. So its fear to say i normally looking for bird species, mainly near here.
I'm not sick of that yet, i enjoy poking around along country roads and out in the bush. Though i am really happy to photograph wild horse, fox, dear and whatever, and enjoy taking pictures of native wild flowers, most i seek out birds...
So for that reason online searching and reading camera reviews i looked for modestly, middle the road priced camera that would at least capture birds and wildlife in the good old outdoors.
That of course means I'm interested in capturing distant, often fast moving birds, that are often in shad, up in trees or flying high up in the sky.
DSL cameras in my opinion, are better suited for taking photos of scenes, groups of people, sunsets and panorama shots, not birds.
Considering all available options i i could find i have finally spent a penny on Sony, though i've still got a couple of reservations, mainly the camera detects smiles not eye detection, which i'm pretty sure i'd much prefer as i've not yet seen a bird with teeth. Another now that the camera has arrived the body part you hold camera steady with feels a bit small.
Otherwise I'm pretty confident the camera and lens configuration should be pretty good.
So i'm trying to say its a good idea to figure out what you expectations might be. Buying a DSL camera to take photos of birds i don't think be particularly rewarding.
All cameras have really great aspects and probably more limitations. To my mind taking distant photos of wildlife (outside of a Zoo) most often requires good fast shooting camera coupled with a capable lens.
The longer the lens is able to focus the better. Biggest short coming over long distant's presides hand shacking in delight is lack of light.
Another really important aspect for long distant, hand held fast shooting is the camera's built in stability'
how do i print screen
I've currently listed 8,229 bird photos in the Bird folder in Picasa, numinous times i've gone through deleting not so good images, probably most days birding i'd take between 200 and 500 photos and might at best keep twenty images. So its fear to say i normally looking for bird species, mainly near here.
I'm not sick of that yet, i enjoy poking around along country roads and out in the bush. Though i am really happy to photograph wild horse, fox, dear and whatever, and enjoy taking pictures of native wild flowers, most i seek out birds...
So for that reason online searching and reading camera reviews i looked for modestly, middle the road priced camera that would at least capture birds and wildlife in the good old outdoors.
That of course means I'm interested in capturing distant, often fast moving birds, that are often in shad, up in trees or flying high up in the sky.
DSL cameras in my opinion, are better suited for taking photos of scenes, groups of people, sunsets and panorama shots, not birds.
Considering all available options i i could find i have finally spent a penny on Sony, though i've still got a couple of reservations, mainly the camera detects smiles not eye detection, which i'm pretty sure i'd much prefer as i've not yet seen a bird with teeth. Another now that the camera has arrived the body part you hold camera steady with feels a bit small.
Otherwise I'm pretty confident the camera and lens configuration should be pretty good.
So i'm trying to say its a good idea to figure out what you expectations might be. Buying a DSL camera to take photos of birds i don't think be particularly rewarding.
All cameras have really great aspects and probably more limitations. To my mind taking distant photos of wildlife (outside of a Zoo) most often requires good fast shooting camera coupled with a capable lens.
The longer the lens is able to focus the better. Biggest short coming over long distant's presides hand shacking in delight is lack of light.
Another really important aspect for long distant, hand held fast shooting is the camera's built in stability'
how do i print screen
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Fab pic, Life
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mollybaby: Fab pic, Life
Thank you Molly
That is tricky, too many nests in a tree?
The first time I did see it I was skeptical, so since I am not an expert in birds I went to ask why those many nests in just one tree when there are plenty of trees and the nest were hanging rather low. Then the local people living around where just laughing and they did confess that they had collected non-usable nests (they said so) and placed them in just one tree
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Not everybody gets upset because of snow, lovely video about the Oregon Zoo's animales
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They showed same animals playing in snow Zoo on Aust TV news...
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A documentary:
The wonder list with Bill Weir + Galápagos
The wonder list with Bill Weir + Galápagos
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Hummingbird life cycle 
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Trying to play the video I got a message saying an error occurred try again later
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Hummingbird life cycle
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I'm really loving these photos Rob and these most recent ones are truly amazing!! 
Makes me want to go buy a high end camera but they're too darn expensive. 
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