Wildlife Photography across the Water: Opossums and Prints Sales

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Opossums and Prints Sales

I am still spending a 2 or 3 hours a night trying to get opossum shots and am still at 1 image a night max, Once the flash goes off the opossum stops and has a think-shall i stay or shall i go-well thats what it looks like to me and after a few seconds scurries off, It does come back a few hours later but by that time i have left, I will take it slowly as i have as long as it takes, As long as its a bit more settled when winter does come i will be happy, I really would love some snow images with both opossum and fox, The weather here is far from Winter, Today it was warm winds from early on and 72 high and its set to stay that way until Thursday when a cooler spell arrives, I am going through one of the phases where i just cant get my flashguns right, I set up and take a couple of test shots and check the histogram and all is well but the final images are coming out dark, I think i am worried about blowing the opossums white face out and am setting them just a little under exposed,

Now how much is an image worth? $50,$100 or even $500? Well how about $4.3 Million, It must be a great image eh, One in a million shot,Stunning-Well no have a look at this.
Whats its all about? What a crazy world, Anyways i have reduced all my images to $1m for a quick sale

Dave

5 comments:

Aaron15 November 2011 at 15:15
Your opposum shots have made me check into 500mm more than ever but all I can afford are teh fixed f8 mirror lenses. its too bad there are no such things as used 500mm!
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mark wood15 November 2011 at 19:32
Dave I never had you down as a cheap date - get those prices back up !
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WPATW15 November 2011 at 20:26
Hi Aaron
There are used 500's around but they hold their money, I would look at the 100-400 or 300F4 and 1.4x if you are a Canon guy and the Sigma 150-500 or Nikon 300F4 and 1.4x if you are a Nikon guy, I could get closer by using a hide/blind or baiting closer, My older opossum images on my website were taken with a 200-400

Dave
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Aaron16 November 2011 at 15:48
WHEW! what a night looking @ 500mm and 100-400mm on ebay and amazon.com something better than my 100-300 $75 lens! most all were manual focus that were in my price range. maybe I'll have to just keep being jealous of your shots. ha! -thanks for the advice! -Aaron
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Photographer in London19 November 2011 at 12:46
It's a very sweet shot!So simple but yet so beautiful.
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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.