exploring nature’s infinite connections
It is quite difficult to portray animal emotions in photographs or reveal something about their nature in a fraction of a second. It is so much easier with human facial expressions that we associate with happiness, sorrow, or anger. Even colors in photographs, or the...
Contrary to my previous posts on high ISOs to get my shutter speed up, for the effect I wanted on this image - I wanted the shutter speed to be pretty slow. In this case, about 1/3 of a second. To get the shutter speed slower, I went to ISO 160, and cranked the...
Another high ISO image here, ISO 2500, not necessarily used for a high action moment, but simply because of fairly low light. Shot at 400mm at f4, even at ISO 2500 my shutter speed was only 1/200 sec. This cute little guy was also scratching quite a bit. At...
Here's an action shot that I liked from Katmai, photographed at Geographic Harbor. The importance of high shutter speeds really hit home on this trip, and the benefits of high ISO capabilities in cameras. This one is ISO 1250 on my D700, which yielded a 1/1250 sec...
Before my trip to Alaska, I made a post about some photos I had hoped to obtain. They weren't really based upon anything other than my imagination running wild. I had never been there before, so they weren't based on much education about the place either, what...
While I only spent a short 2.5 days in Denali, I suppose I had OK luck with seeing wildlife there. Only the first 17 miles of the park road are open to public traffic, which is such a miniscule portion of the entire park. Yet, it still is an incredibly large...