Haha. Actually I prefer overcast with these. The trick is trying to get them without a overexposed sky. Pick one or two and I'll email you the untouched jpegs if you're that curious.Aside from the awesome subjects, it's pretty amazing how you're getting the kind of contrast and color in these images under what I'd guess are often pretty flat lighting conditions. Gorgeous!
If you're still getting shots like this even close to OOC I quit.
If I had a nickel for every time I had the shutter half way pressed and the subject flew off, I wouldn't need a GoFundMe. I wouldn't be opposed though, would have to split the raptoring with some spider hunts though.
Those pics are magnificent. I would love to have a blow up of that 4th pic. Ridiculous pics...I see owls fairly often here, but I almost never get a good look at them for long enough to even get a quick pic on my phone.Been awhile. Now that it is winter I switch my focus from jumping spiders to raptors.
After a few hours of driving back roads looking for snowy owls and coming up short last weekend, we made the last minute decision to make a two hour detour north to St. Louis County. We only had about 45 minutes of light when we arrived but it was worth it. We also ran into a spider friend Brad. It's always nice to run into friends, hours away from home.
Great Grey Owl
A few of the second one we found hunting at dusk.
Where's the dedication...
I know this feeling all too well for some landscape photography. I was recently on the coast and had left my camera home by ACCIDENT, 300 miles away, saw one of the best sunsets in a while, nothing but a camera "phone" with me.
Thanks man! it takes a lot of time to find them during the day. That's half the fun. Last year the gf and I come up with a game with points.
I am dedicated to Salti's during the summer, even got a bad case of poison ivy last summer catching one.Where's the dedication...
I know this feeling all too well for some landscape photography. I was recently on the coast and had left my camera home by ACCIDENT, 300 miles away, saw one of the best sunsets in a while, nothing but a camera "phone" with me.
These are great pics Advan. I'm glad you are finding joy in a new area. I've only seen owls and hawks flying haha. Never seen them sitting still unfortunately, nor have I seen an eagle in the wild ever. Truly gorgeous images.
I still need to create a thread of all the Salti shots I got last year. That's crazy you've never seen a baldy, they are dime a dozen up here. I'm using a Nikon D7100 with the Nikon 200-500mm f5.6 now. Before I was shooting the Nikon 300mm f4 with a 1.4 teleconverter before I sold that to Jacobi to fund the 200-500mm. I shoot in raw, import them into Nikon ViewNX and convert them to JPEG. I use Lightroom to reduce noise, do some touch ups and cropping. Owls are always hard do to lighting restrictions, the GGOs love to hunt of grey overcast days. You always have to crank up ISO to get the SS up to get usable shots. If you are curious about EXIF data, I have it enabled on my Flickr so you can see the settings for each shot.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76845739@N03/
Can't wait to see those! My favorite true spider group out there. If they were the size of a large tarantula, I'd get one provided I could give them a good amount of space for them to thrive. I know papilio had the large species, and those are huge for spiders.
What a very pleasant surprise, and thanks for the shout out ... I do hope you're doing well!
