Posted by John Robinson on April 17, 2012 at 4:38 PM
Great Crested Newt
(Taken under licence )
Still experimenting with back drops, and trying to get pics of each species that show all the features.Good fun if nowt else. Hard getting them in mid swim though.
First try with the new 40mm Nikon micro.
F18 200 ISO
D7000
70% of full frame.
Slight backdrop adjustment. Problem again with specks in water and on glass.
Thank for all previous comments.
Cheers
JR
Posted by David Sewell on April 17, 2012 at 5:47 PM
I'm afraid specks in the water, and on the glass, is a hazard of tank photography, John. I like the way you have got all the salient features in, and the background works as well as anything I have seen.
I was thinking it must be difficult to get them 'mid swim' as you put it. I can imagine they tend to sit on the bottom. It's another nice shot John. Do you have a pond in your garden or nearby to provide the newts? I'm fairly sure I'm going to have a go at some aquatic stuff this summer so I may have a few queries for you at some point if your don't mind.
Matt
Posted by John Robinson on April 17, 2012 at 6:04 PM
Thanks both.
David . Encouraging to hear your comment on the backdrop, Thanks- getting there slowly I think. Need to get some A3,s printed.
Matt- Yes I ,ve got three in the garden and I get to do surveys on ones in the area. ( The drought is really having an effect which is worrying. Many sites just gone altogether !!
Cheers
JR
PS Matt - any advice you're more than welcome.
Posted by John Robinson on April 17, 2012 at 9:55 PM
Thanks for the offer of help John. I should add that I'm not planning to do Great Crested Newts myself as I know you need a license to handle these. I'm planning to focus on aquatic insects (as you might have guessed ).
Matt
Posted by Jeroen Stel on April 19, 2012 at 4:37 AM
Wonderful shot and very difficult to accomplish John so well done!
geetings,
Jeroen Stel
Posted by David Sewell on April 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM
Matt raises an interesting point (although I will admit to discussing it with him off line). I know that John, like me, is licensed to catch great crested newts for photographic purposes. On some forums, when you post a picture of a protected species you are supposed to post the license number under which the picture was taken. I wonder if we ought to consider the same practise here?
David
Posted by John Robinson on April 19, 2012 at 7:32 AM
David
Might be an idea, but to be honest the amount of disturbance to Kingfishers without licences is far more wide spread I feel.
Maybe needs a new topic. As I think I said earlier I had a photographer at a nest site who didn't think that "burrowing" was classed as "nesting " !
Cheers
JR
Discussion
10 replies(Taken under licence )
Still experimenting with back drops, and trying to get pics of each species that show all the features.Good fun if nowt else. Hard getting them in mid swim though.
First try with the new 40mm Nikon micro.
F18 200 ISO
D7000
70% of full frame.
Slight backdrop adjustment. Problem again with specks in water and on glass.
Thank for all previous comments.
Cheers
JR
David
Matt
David . Encouraging to hear your comment on the backdrop, Thanks- getting there slowly I think. Need to get some A3,s printed.
Matt- Yes I ,ve got three in the garden and I get to do surveys on ones in the area. ( The drought is really having an effect which is worrying. Many sites just gone altogether !!
Cheers
JR
PS Matt - any advice you're more than welcome.
Cheers
JR
3D one really good
Matt
geetings,
Jeroen Stel
David
Might be an idea, but to be honest the amount of disturbance to Kingfishers without licences is far more wide spread I feel.
Maybe needs a new topic. As I think I said earlier I had a photographer at a nest site who didn't think that "burrowing" was classed as "nesting " !
Cheers
JR