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:

  1. 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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  2. Dave I never had you down as a cheap date - get those prices back up !

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. It's a very sweet shot!So simple but yet so beautiful.

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