A heavy fog was hanging over the Downs all day. Not what I would normally think of as a good day for photography, but I'm learning to experiment and went back to the technique I used last week: don't fight it, use it. Once again I slowed everything down and took long exposures of the gulls. I rarely say this, but I am really happy with the results.
And just for fun, one more of Shutterbug from Saturday night.
Camera note: all gull photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The fox was photographed with the EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS USM lens.
anonymous
14 Nov 2011Wojtek writes:
Funniest fox pic ever. Hands down. 😛 Caught him mid-shake, huh? 😛
Words
14 Nov 2011Wojtek, I couldn't resist posting that shot of him… yes, mid-shake, ears all over the place. 😀
RobinL
15 Nov 2011Words, hmm, interesting shots! Very ethereal
gdare
15 Nov 2011It looks like a painting, those gulls :up:
derWandersmann
15 Nov 2011Really unusual and expressive!
serola
15 Nov 2011Excellent shots!
claudeb
15 Nov 2011Those gull photos are surreal, like from a dream world. I can easily imagine them inspiring a short film, or some music.
And Shutterbug is so cuuute! <3
anonymous
15 Nov 2011Anonymous writes:
I like those fog shots – so ethereal is right (Robins post)…
Marilyn
Words
15 Nov 2011Erwin, thanks!
Words
15 Nov 2011dW, thanks!
Words
15 Nov 2011Felix, I wasn't quite sure how they would come out, but I wanted that sense of movement. The difficult bit is keeping the camera still!
Words
15 Nov 2011Robin, thanks! The fog helped a lot by washing out the backgrounds.
Words
15 Nov 2011Sami, thanks! 😀
Words
15 Nov 2011Marilyn, thanks!
Words
15 Nov 2011Darko, thanks. I want to try to take more animals like this, but lots still to learn.
SittingFox
16 Nov 2011A fox with ear flaps :eyes:
But those gull shots are superb. A series of them would look great framed and hanging on the wall somewhere. Excellent!
Words
16 Nov 2011Adele, that was Shutterbug at his most dog-like.
I'm working on more gull photos. It really makes a change from struggling with poor light. I'm almost sorry when the sun comes out now!
ICU109
17 Nov 2011the pics of the black headed gulls….what? what did you do differently? they look like heaven! filter of some sort? what? so beautiful!!!! like art in a gallery!
Words
17 Nov 2011Kathy, no filters or any messing about afterwards. It's just a very slow shutter speed so that the movement naturally blurs the image. I have to admit that having discovered how to do this I'm become quite obsessed with it as a technique.
ICU109
19 Dec 2011I gotcha. I did that years ago in the Bahamas with a half second shutter opening to capture the right amount of light while i was lying under a palm at night looking up at the moon. wish i could find that pic. have millions to go through hard copies of. I can see why u are infatuated. you have found heaven on earth. those be angels.
Words
19 Dec 2011Kathy, playing with light is one of the joys. Nice when it's easy, but there's always some way of getting a shot if you think it through.
ICU109
21 Dec 2011sometimes the elements, the subject and the camera take over control from you and then you get a miracle.
wierdf
21 Dec 2011Excellent use of slow speed! 🙂
ICU109
21 Dec 2011and that old poem was foggy foggy dew, I believe…my mom would quote that to me. along with Robert Frost stopping by the woods on a snowy evening…the woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep…and miles to go before I sleep; and miles to go before I sleep.
Words
22 Dec 2011Kathy, I think I know that, but I'm more familiar with the song 'Foggy Notion'!
Words
22 Dec 2011Wertti, thanks!
ICU109
12 Jan 2012never heard the song, but I have foggy notions daily.
Wulpen
19 Oct 2012Interesting shots