Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
Another very HARD task was to try to capture a bird in motion…but to capture the blur. You do this by setting your shutter speed pretty slow about 1/25th and trying to move your camera with the bird-at exactly the same speed it’s moving without moving your camera any other direction. You take hundreds of shots and pray that one of them comes out.
The goal is for the head and feet to be clear and the wings and background will be in motion. This was one of my few keepers…
The next morning we went to a pond and jackpot! It seemed all the birds were there sleeping. These early birds were taking off to feed.
Another project we undertook was taking silhouettes of moving objects.
These birds are chest high. It’s amazing that they can even fly.
I went to Bosque del Apache NM to study under Lisa Langell a brilliant creative photographer. One of our tasks was to learn how to shoot in “high Key” where you deliberately make the background completely white to separate your subject.
Note the bird on the far right is still frozen in the pond.
Also note that it was 17 degrees and said photographer was also frozen in place. It’s VERY hard to control your settings when it’s nearly pitch black and you can’t feel your hands!
I love to turn photos into pieces of art…