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But getting the best colour, or mood or feel takes a few moment to consider the vision that I have of the results, and then making the necessary steps to work to achieve that.ĭo I always use front light? No, is the loud reply. I know in the field, the excitement of seeing a bird is more than enough to make a record shot. All shadow, no detail.Īfter the dust settled and with the bird still in good view, we moved up the roadway about 75m, and the Kite was now in “full front, sunlight”, dial in the sunny 16, and increase the shutter speed slightly to keep the highlights in the feathers, wait, wait, wait for a head turn, there is the eye catchlight. I didn’t have to see the results to know they had a black, Black Kite.
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A few shutter clicks, and quick ‘chimp’ at the results, and the vehicles moved on looking for something else to record.
BLACK KITE WINDOWS
To my surprise, they too stopped, several cameras with people attached got out, some cameras stayed in the cars with the windows wound down. We had stopped well off the road, so there was plenty of room to pass. I glanced in the rear view mirror and several cars were coming up behind us. We slowed and stopped, the light was coming from behind the bird and the most we really could see was a shape in shadow. We found the Black Kite sitting conspicuously on a branch high on a tree near the roadway. So it is not without consequence that EE and I were out at the Western Treatment Plant on a sunny afternoon. Light coming from behind the subject robs us of rich colour and often detail. But of course it depends on the mood I want. So on any given day in the field, my first choice is Mum’s Rule. Hard for subject not to squint as they peer toward the bright light.īirds tend to look away for the same reason, and perhaps because it’s easier to see prey in the bird’s front light. Lack of form and shape because of the loss of shadows The form and shape are lost in a flat looking surface. The shadows fall away behind the subject. My dear old Mum’s favourite photo-adage, “Keep the sun over your left shoulder dear”, is just another variation on that theme.įront Light in sunny daylight gives beginners several advantages: The good old Reciprocity Rule at work before your very eyes. Normally I use ISO400, and f/5.6 on the 500mm PF with a shutter speed of 1/2500-for white birds 1/3200.
BLACK KITE MANUAL
I admit to still using a variation of the Sunny Sixteen, when I shoot in M for Manual on the D500. The (in)Famous “Sunny Sixteen Rule” relies on bright sunshine-a couple of hours after sunup and before sundown- to give correct exposure. The small aperture and low sensitivity meant that bright light was indeed the order of the day. An 8 hour or more exposure taken through an upstairs window of his Burgundy estate.įront light was the staple light of George Eastman’s Kodak. Nicéphore Niépce used it for his first ‘heliograph’ made in 1826 or 27. Next several Ravens decided that having so many free-loaders in their nesting area was not going to happen and another battle ensued.Ī good day out for with some bonus Australian Hobby secrets discovered as well, but that is certainly for another post.įront light is one of our most basic light forms. First just a few but as quickly as we could count the numbers grew to about twenty five birds filling the sky.Īmong some of the interest was a Black Kite that had a rabbit carcass tucked up, and was not giving it up for any of its ‘friends’.Īnd a bit of an aerial duel between some Black and Whistling Kites. However as we walked the track, what came to visit us was several squadrons of Black and Whistling Kites. It is a 6th Sense, or at least borders on some kind of extra-sensory perception. If it had been in Argentina, she would have spotted it anyway. And if EE missed it, well, it wasn’t there. If there was a Little Eagle’s nest along the roadway I missed it. Well it was a sunny day.Īnd just as well, for to be honest. Not sure Bourke and Wills and certainly not Pooh Bear, ever had a plan B. We set off to find that the access gate we were hoping to use was locked, and as Arlo Guthie sings, “With a big chain, and a lock and a sign saying “Closed for Covid”.” ( Alice’s Restaurant) Still any day out with good weather, good company and a flask of the good Earl’s finest, was looking better than another locked down day in our four walls. It was more likely the ‘expotition’ of Winnie the Pooh in search for the North Pole. Now it was hardly an expedition that would rival Bourke and Wills, or even the great Major Thomas Mitchell.
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BLACK KITE FREE
With a touch of sunshine, and a free morning, EE and I decided it was time to followup on a lead we’d been given about the possibility of a Little Eagle’s nest along the Werribee River.