Wildlife Photography across the Water: A few from the woods

Monday 4 October 2010

A few from the woods

Well the weather curtailed most of my photo plans yesterday, right from the word go.

So one of my options was to process the fungi shots from Saturday. As I mentioned, it is a great year this year so here are a few from my first session of the year.

Single Mycena, natural light

Clitocybe, natural light

Clitocybe, with fill flash, now with detail

Nice little group of Mycena

Same group, with a little bit of sunlight breaking through

Now using a little bit of uplight flash reflected with aluminium kitchen foil from below

Slightly lower point of view improves the background

Again with reflected flash to provide uplight

What style do you prefer and why?

All taken with the 1Dmk3 and either Canon 100 macro or 180 macro. So why use the 1D? - simple - Liveview. My old 5D doesn't have it and it is dead easy to use on this type of work, where the subject doesn't move

Martin

3 comments:

NigelL4 October 2010 at 10:39
A fine collection of shots, Martin, and thanks for demonstrating the different lighting methods - the favourite style for me would have to be when using the reflector/flash combo, with the images appearing a little warmer from a lighting point of view.

Nigel
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mark wood4 October 2010 at 18:02
Mines the last Martin I just love how the light is bounced to illuminate the underneath.

Mark W
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NickyK6 October 2010 at 11:43
I agree with Nigel, I like the reflector/flash combo..looking at the last picture on both my home pc (calibrated) and the non calibrated work laptop, the colours are too much and look like you have used flash, which it not a look I am fond of (each to their own!) so the one for me is the 3rd one up!
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Bio's

David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.