This is always a good show for photography if you've got a good long lens, even if it is a little corny in places. Besides which, I'm really impressed with some of the ways they have their birds trained.
Noteworthy pictures in what I'm posting include the one of the owl flying off the perch. They always get a few people with cameras to stand in the location of the two in the picture. I always hope that they pick me, but I never have a wide lens on my camera, and I'm guessing that I'd be too close to be able to focus on the owl with my 70-200 if they DID pick me. I wonder if they're aware of the distinction.. they always seem to pick people carrying P&S cameras. I wonder if they're at least avoiding people with long SLR lenses because they know they'd tend to have too long a minimum focus distance.
My mission for this show in December is to use a high enough shutter speed to get sharp pictures of the birds in flight. The parts of the routine where the birds fly over the audience seem to be good opportunities, but judging by the pictures that I got, the shade over the audience must darken the scene considerably, I was trying to track a flying bird with my lens zoomed out to 70mm with a 1/60thsec exposure. The resulting picture was interesting.. but closer to modern art than photography.
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Noteworthy pictures in what I'm posting include the one of the owl flying off the perch. They always get a few people with cameras to stand in the location of the two in the picture. I always hope that they pick me, but I never have a wide lens on my camera, and I'm guessing that I'd be too close to be able to focus on the owl with my 70-200 if they DID pick me. I wonder if they're aware of the distinction.. they always seem to pick people carrying P&S cameras. I wonder if they're at least avoiding people with long SLR lenses because they know they'd tend to have too long a minimum focus distance.
My mission for this show in December is to use a high enough shutter speed to get sharp pictures of the birds in flight. The parts of the routine where the birds fly over the audience seem to be good opportunities, but judging by the pictures that I got, the shade over the audience must darken the scene considerably, I was trying to track a flying bird with my lens zoomed out to 70mm with a 1/60thsec exposure. The resulting picture was interesting.. but closer to modern art than photography.
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