Wildlife Photography across the Water: Sunday Blues

Sunday 6 March 2011

Sunday Blues

I am sitting in a motel just outside Washington DC on a wet and miserable day, I was intending to do the touristy bits today and go into the city but whats the point when the weather is so miserable? I will do some night photography during the week when conditions are better, My laptop died when i was in Japan and it went in for repair when i got home, 2 days and the guy gave up, So before i left for DC i popped into Tiger Direct and walked out $1000 worse off, I know own an Asus 15'' laptop with an i-7 processor which should handle photoshop/capture one/breezebrowser etc much better than my old Dell, The Dell had always struggled with the processing side of things, its one of those things in getting the best you can and then some, The Asus is still a little under speced to what i wanted but budgets didnt allow so at some point in the future i will swap out the 500gb hard drive for a SSD drive to really boost the speed, One of the problems with having modern Dslrs is the higher MP and large file sizes even on the most basic cameras, This means bigger memory cards, Larger hard drives and more powerful PC'c/Mac-Dont even mention video, It seems its a constant battle to keep up and more going out than seems to be coming in and there seems no end to it yet, Saying that i am still blown away with the D3s files-absolutely beautiful and sharp looking straight out of the camera, I still advise people on buying a D700 now whilst they are still around as i am not sure that the D800 will be as good an all round camera as pixels increase and no doubt the high ISO capabilities diminish-thats purely my own thoughts but 99% of people do not need any more pixels than the D700, The files are great as is the low light performance and AF-all in all a great camera from pro downwards.
So now i will continue to download CS5 which is taking forever on this crappy wi fi and try to make some kind of itinery for the coming week as the weather looks up and down
Dave

1 comment:

Ed Rosack23 March 2011 at 01:29
Hi Dave,

I've been reading and enjoying your blog for a while.

I too was in Washington DC on the 6th of March and was disappointed in the weather. I went out anyway and came away with a few images I like (see: this post

It's too bad we didn't know we were both there, it might have been fun to go out shooting together.

Ed
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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.