Northern Wheatear

An image from a project that has taken several days, this is a full height crop from one of the shots where the bird was not in the desired position, it was in the left of frame looking out of the shot. I did get the desired images though.
Canon EOS 1Ds MkII + 28-80 at 32mm, mounted on a home built low level camera mount made from a £12 Asda frying pan, I'll post a shot of it later, and using Canon IR release.
Processed in Breezebrowser pro and CS2.

Great shot Nigel don't often see wide angle shots of these guys - i couldn't even get close enough with a 500mm last weekend. show what a difference it makes if you really put the work in.

Graham

Outstanding Nigel - very different from the usual big glass shot

Am very interested to see your 'frying pan special'

Regards

Andy

Great shot Nigel how far away was your camera and what aperture?
John
Aberdeen

Different and very nice indeed.
Look forward to seeing a shot of your homemade groundpod,I feel a creative D.I.Y. streak coming on

I was at minimum focus of 10inches at f16, iso 250, at 1/400th for most of the set, I'll look up the exif in a mo but I keep all my work on another computer that I do not connect to the net with, its taken 6 days to get the bird regularly visiting the same spot for mealworms.

Definately a different perspective Nigel, and it works very nicely.

I seem to remember a 'short-lived' trend for this type of shooting {possibly in the 70's }. I suspect it was 'short-lived' due to the time consuming nature/ difficulty of taking this type of shot of a timid bird, but it certainly has paid off for you .

I think your efforts at attempting this type of shot with a wheatear are admirable, although i feel your shopping skills leave much to be desired {poundstretchers do frying pans for under a tenner }

Alan

Hi Nigel

Cracking shot,you always push the envelope in terms of creativity with your photography!!!

Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk

Cool shot Nigel. Good to see different angles and ideas. Takesa lot of time and hard work by the sound of things. It paid off!

Like it, . A wheatears eye view no less.



Tim

Many thanks to all, it is indeed very time consuming but extremely rewarding when it comes off, I have been back with this bird today and got a shot with two Lapwings flying over in the background, pure fluke I hasten to add.
I did try poundstretchers, honest, Alan; but Asda was the only place I could find a a frying pan that did not have a ribbed bottom, this has a very smooth one and is perfect for stalking waders when on ones tum.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/birdphotos/frypod/frypod.htm will take you to a picture of the 'Frypod' camera and wheatear.

Great capture Nigel. Interesting and unusual perspective that works well!

David

Super shot and a very interesting technique.



Paul

I really like this style of photograph, one of the reasons I've just bought a Canon LC-5 IR release. Now it looks as if I've got to shopping for a frying pan

Fantastic shot, thanks for the inspiration

Your efforts deserve success and you got it for sure