I have been lurking around this forum for a little while and so I think it is time to grasp the nettle and post something.
This image is from a 5 year (so far) project to document the progress of a re-established water vole population. I screwed up the framing and cut the reflection (which wasn't great as the water is moving quite fast)and so ended up cropping it a bit tighter than I would normally.
D2X and 300mm lens on a tripod at water level. Triggered by radio release. 400 iso.
thanks
Terry
Posted by Alan Bryant on August 19, 2008 at 6:00 AM
Cracking 1st image (tho i'd try and clone out that white spot in the lower left corner)
Welcome Terry. Cracking image. Love the smoothness of the water and the voles expression.
Robert
Posted by Paul Gibbs on August 19, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Welcome, cracking Vole shot, great low level image with lovely colour in the water. No nits at all, same about the reflection but you get that at times.
Posted by Dave Bartlett on August 19, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Great shot. Welcome to the forum.
Dave
Posted by Colin Crowdey on August 19, 2008 at 12:51 PM
welcome to the forum and cracking first post. Eye level POV makes this for me.
No I don’t have an upright of this. My success rate from this set-up is low. Focus is on manual and the vole has to be in just the right spot, with a pretty narrow DOF. I usually set it up for a landscape format with the vole off centre and enough room for the reflection. This can always be cropped to portrait if necessary. In this case I didn’t leave enough room for the reflection (which of course was better than usual) and clipped it around the vole’s ears. Nothing left to do but crop it tight. This site is a fairly fast moving stream which usually distorts reflections.
Cheers
Terry
Posted by eric weight on August 20, 2008 at 1:08 AM
Well, that's a beauty to start with. You have done well to isolate one of these from the bg. welcome and an excellent first post. Eric
Posted by Dawn Monrose on August 20, 2008 at 5:07 AM
Beautiful shot! Great colours, nice and detailed too.
Great shot, you would have a higher hit rate if you were in there yourself instead of using remote release
I have just started a very similar project at my LNR, documenting a recent release and lying in the wet greass for 4 hours to try and get a shot like yours, now remote release sounds tempting any tips, pit falls, or pointers you might have would be very valuable, for my next lying down shoot I have a green camping mat to insulate me
Cheers
Danielle
Posted by David Kjaer on August 24, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Discussion
21 repliesI have been lurking around this forum for a little while and so I think it is time to grasp the nettle and post something.
This image is from a 5 year (so far) project to document the progress of a re-established water vole population. I screwed up the framing and cut the reflection (which wasn't great as the water is moving quite fast)and so ended up cropping it a bit tighter than I would normally.
D2X and 300mm lens on a tripod at water level. Triggered by radio release. 400 iso.
thanks
Terry
Welcome to the forum
Dave
JohnR
Matt
Robert
Dave
Cheers
Colin
Austin
Stewart................
The capture of this Vole is excellent.
Dave,
No I don’t have an upright of this. My success rate from this set-up is low. Focus is on manual and the vole has to be in just the right spot, with a pretty narrow DOF. I usually set it up for a landscape format with the vole off centre and enough room for the reflection. This can always be cropped to portrait if necessary. In this case I didn’t leave enough room for the reflection (which of course was better than usual) and clipped it around the vole’s ears. Nothing left to do but crop it tight. This site is a fairly fast moving stream which usually distorts reflections.
Cheers
Terry
Welcome!
Looking forward to seeing more!
A very nice image indeed and a wonderful setting.
I feel that cropping the image to just under the rock that the vole is standing on would strengthen the composition even more.
Regards
Great shot, you would have a higher hit rate if you were in there yourself instead of using remote release
I have just started a very similar project at my LNR, documenting a recent release and lying in the wet greass for 4 hours to try and get a shot like yours, now remote release sounds tempting
Cheers
Danielle
David