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Wildlife pictures

I see alot of Brown pelicans. I spent some time practising with my new camera this last Sunday.

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and here's a sand piper, too.:)

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Congrats on your new cam :) Which one did you get?

I haven't been to the beach much, so I don't have many pelican pics. Just this one from last month on a trip to Cepe. I like that one is taking off, the second is just about to dive and the third is entering the water:
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While my main subjects for photos are arthropods and animals in general, I dabble a bit in other subjects in nature...

Sunset near my house:
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Waterfall about an hour away from my house (not bad for a 1/10 sec exposure... gotta love IS!)
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BTW, I was looking through my pics and I came across these two:

And you thought humans invented the mohawk? Ha! :p Nature did it first!
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Yes, this is a coral snake. Yes, it's venomous. Yes, I'm insane!
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Looking forward to seeing more wildlife pics!

Dan
 
dllavaneras said:
Congrats on your new cam :) Which one did you get?

Dan
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I got a Panasonic fz50. I thought I was going to go dslr like a Canon or something, then realized that I would be lugging huge lenses around and trying to change them in the sand and salt air environment where I spend most of my time... leaving them in my backpack unguarded while I take surf breaks, etc... so I got the best I could find compromise. I'm liking it, but still learning how to use it for good photos. It does good macro shots, I intend to hunt around my backyard for some interesting things this week to share!:)
 
Nice pet!

Awesome critter! My mom would freak if I had a pet like that... the only pet I've had recently was Tito:

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Apart from her, I haven't had time to have another pet... I really want to get a tarantula, but my family isn't too fond of my non-traditional pets.

Oh, I was studying in the same place I took the last hummingbird pic, and it came again and perched on exactly the same branch! I managed to get closer this time, and I used fill flash to get this: (scaled down to 66% of the original size)

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And some people tell me that my 3 Mp camera is useless these days of 10 Mp cell phone cams... :D

I guess people on these forums don't take many nature pics, srf4real... they need to get out more ;) Any cool finds with your new toy?

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Those colors are beautiful! I caught an osprey eating breakfast in Tampa this weekend, wish I hadn't used the image stabilizer tho.:eek:

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There's some real nice stuff on here.

Have y'all seen the current contest going on on

http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/nationalparks/votingcenter/index.htm

There's some real nice photos on that one too, both in the wildlife and landscape sections. I'm a bit biased in the wildlife section as the "Charging Alaskan Grizzly" was taken by a good friend of mine (and fellow Mac User), but some of the others are real nice too.

If y'all feel like it go ahead and vote for your favorite, voting ends tomorrow night, I believe. I just hope your favorite is the same as mine.

Some of the shots on this thread look nice enough to be in the competition, although, from the subject matter, I'm not entirely sure that they would fit in the US National Park theme.
 
Here's one for warm-up, taken 1.5 years ago when walking with my ex-gf. :) I used my tiny point and shoot to get this shot, and it's as sharp as a tack (well, the original JPG is).
 

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Wow, what a freaky lizard, Abstract! Around on this side of the world these are the only lizards commonly found (besides alligators) - and they're exotics from South America taking over the native green cameleon's habitat.:(

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and here's a couple of bugs...

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pdpfilms said:
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PDP, were these all shot with the 70-200mm VR? If so, it looks very flexible. I thought you'd need a longer zoom to get so close. Or did you add a teleconverter? Or judicious cropping? :)

I have the new 70-300 VR on order, I just don't have the cash for the 70-200...
 
Spectrum said:
PDP, were these all shot with the 70-200mm VR? If so, it looks very flexible. I thought you'd need a longer zoom to get so close. Or did you add a teleconverter? Or judicious cropping? :)

I have the new 70-300 VR on order, I just don't have the cash for the 70-200...
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Yeah, most of these were with the 70-200. If any other lens was used it was the 35-77. The reason that most of these pictures appear to be closer than the 70-200 allows is because they are... in many of these shots the animals were only 10-20 feet away.
 
Thanks for the info. Awesome to get so close in the wild.

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Yeah, most of these were with the 70-200. If any other lens was used it was the 35-77. The reason that most of these pictures appear to be closer than the 70-200 allows is because they are... in many of these shots the animals were only 10-20 feet away.
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srf4real said:
in Tampa, don't know... what is it?
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It looks like an egret of some sort, but I can't be sure (birds are not exactly my stuff). Try playing with shadows/highlights in Photoshop to see if you can make out more detail.

I had a chance to take these pics a while back:

Female Cardisoma guanhumi
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A "small" Lepidoptera larva (17 cm long, almost 5 cm in diameter)
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And finally, not one of your ordinary daddy-longlegs (Order Opiliones, suborder Laniatores, probably family Gonyleptoidea) I found it crawling around in my room (my mom's right, I should try to clean up once in a while!):

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A close-up:
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Come on, it's not like it's big... it looks big with it's legs spread (it'd be about 15 cm this way), but the body is only 2 cm long. But it's not the prettiest thing you'll come across, I'll give you that!

It's not the worst thing I've found in my room, though. Where I live, I have to check my shoes for scorpions in the morning (even though I'm on a 5th floor), and it's not uncommon to see a gecko running across the ceiling.

No, it's not as bad as it seems; I haven't found a scorpion in my house in over 7 years, but it's better to be safe! And the opilion probably got lost, as I never find them inside. I do see a few of them in the backyard, so it might just have been looking for a warm place to hunt.

Any cool macros with your new cam? Most of my macros are shot with a macro lens adapted to my camera, hence the detail in the closeup (I just resized those pics for the web, the pics are about 3x bigger than that)

Looking forward to looking at more pics!

Dan
 
dllavaneras said:
Congrats on your new cam :) Which one did you get?

I haven't been to the beach much, so I don't have many pelican pics. Just this one from last month on a trip to Cepe. I like that one is taking off, the second is just about to dive and the third is entering the water:
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Nice shot. I agree, neat how you captured 3 pelicans in one frame all doing something different! :cool:

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Here's my little bug eater... not truly wild, but exotic!:eek:

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Love that "portrait" shot. :)
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Those colors are beautiful! I caught an osprey eating breakfast in Tampa this weekend, wish I hadn't used the image stabilizer tho.:eek:

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Why not? I thought image stabilization is something that would help?
 
tech4all said:
Why not? I thought image stabilization is something that would help?
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Well I left my tripod at home and was shooting on the fly... the IS feature seemed to blur the edges worse than a little hand shake does. I'm not sure it's really a benefit to my pics so far (new Panasonic FZ50) I get better shots just lugging the tripod. I got surfers 200 yards away very clearly with tripod and IS off<here's one>, yet this osprey was only 50 feet from me and I expected much clearer results.:(

or maybe it's cuz I hadn't had my morning coffee yet that day?:rolleyes:
 
Awesome shots, spitfirejd! Is that cheetah a cub?

I'm starting a small series about fauna in my Faculty, basically the spot where I spend most of my free time. I'd like to share a few of them:

Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
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A demonic squirrel :p
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Dan
 
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