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Lion Re-edit

12th March 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

Another re-edit of a photo from Kruger National Park in South Africa when I visited in 2011.

This little Cub kept running up to our Land Rover to investigate whilst it’s siblings just stayed with Mum.

This was almost 5 years ago, I wonder if it’s still prowling Kruger as a fully grown adult? I hope so!

It’s not the perfect photo, light was fading quickly and was shot with a slow shutter speed. It’s also shot at ISO400, which although I loved the D70s, this was pushing the limits of the camera, anything higher had serious noise issues.

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Looking for Mischief - D70s, AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 112mm, f/5, ISO400, 1/40sec - {Flickr Link}

Blue Tits on the Peanut Feeder (Video)

11th March 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

This morning I setup the Bushnell Natureview close to the Peanut Feeder in the garden, I was hoping for the Woodpecker to show, but it must of been working away.

There was a variety of birds visiting, here is a collection of the Blue Tit visits.

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Backlit Short Eared Owl

9th March 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

This photo of a Shortie is taken into the Sunrise. It wasn’t too long after the sun had come above the tree line (just to the right of shot). The camera’s light meter is taking it’s reading from the light around the Owl. The light shinning through it’s wings was very bright which results in the camera underexposing the Owl add that to the -1 stop of exposure I had dialled in making the shot even darker and giving this backlit effect. Of course, post editing in Lightroom was needed to give the final effect.

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Backlit Shortie - D810, AF-S 500mm f/4 with TC-14III @ 700mm, f/5.6, ISO3600, 1/800sec - {Flickr Link}

Short Eared Owls

6th March 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

This morning I was again out well before first light in hope that the Short Eared Owls would co-operate.

Over the last few trips, I’ve fired off around 20 shots, this morning I’ve almost 900 shots to go through and it’ll take a while to go through them all.

It was an amazing sighting this morning with both Owls flying around looking for food. In fact, there may have been 3 different Owls, but that’s not confirmed. I also heard 2 Little Owls calling to each other too.

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Short Eared Owl — In Flight – D810, AF-S 500mm f/4 with TC-14III @ 700mm, f/5.6, ISO1000, 1/1000sec – {Flickr Link}

Video Footage of a Goldfinch on the Nyger Feeder

5th March 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

There are a lot of Goldfinches visiting the garden at the moment, probably due to the 2 Nyger Feeders we have.

So today, I set up the Bushnell Natureview with the 60cm closeup lens attached and positioned it on a tripod 60cm from one of the Nyger Feeders. I was hoping for a Goldfinch on each perch, but of course, that happened on the other feeder! However, I still got some close up footage of a Goldfinch cracking open the Nyger seeds.

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New YouTube Channel Trailer

4th March 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

Everytime I visit my YouTube Channel I’m reminded that I should have a Channel Trailer that gets offered to new visitors to the Channel.

So last night, I created a short and simple portfolio style video and uploaded it.