Stephen Stephen
04-01-2009, 07:34 PM
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I created this image last month in the heat and humidity of a jungle night (flashlight) walk at the La Tirimbina Reserve in Costa Rica. We were looking for creepy crawlies like spider, ants, lizards, frog, snakes etc. and we found them all.
Our guide had asked that only one person in our group take flash assisted shots so as not to disturb the animals too much. I was given the honours since I carried my Canon 40D, Sigma 100mm F 2.8 Macro and Sigma Super 500D flash (with a home made soft diffuser). I had to get my colleagues to shine a flashlight or two on each subject to allow me to focus on the subject, in the otherwise pitch black jungle, before each shot.
One of our friends spotted this beautiful male Black-throated Trogon sleeping high in a tree. I couldn't leave the trail (vipers scorpions etc.) and I didn't have a long lens for the reach I would normally have wanted but I was still happy to create this image of a life list addition.
The image is cropped to about 25% of full frame. Perhaps my crop has the bird too centered in the frame?
Exposure - 1/200 seconds, F11, ISO 640, Flash - Flash fired, Compulsory flash mode, FocalLength - 105 mm
I created this image last month in the heat and humidity of a jungle night (flashlight) walk at the La Tirimbina Reserve in Costa Rica. We were looking for creepy crawlies like spider, ants, lizards, frog, snakes etc. and we found them all.
Our guide had asked that only one person in our group take flash assisted shots so as not to disturb the animals too much. I was given the honours since I carried my Canon 40D, Sigma 100mm F 2.8 Macro and Sigma Super 500D flash (with a home made soft diffuser). I had to get my colleagues to shine a flashlight or two on each subject to allow me to focus on the subject, in the otherwise pitch black jungle, before each shot.
One of our friends spotted this beautiful male Black-throated Trogon sleeping high in a tree. I couldn't leave the trail (vipers scorpions etc.) and I didn't have a long lens for the reach I would normally have wanted but I was still happy to create this image of a life list addition.
The image is cropped to about 25% of full frame. Perhaps my crop has the bird too centered in the frame?
Exposure - 1/200 seconds, F11, ISO 640, Flash - Flash fired, Compulsory flash mode, FocalLength - 105 mm