It's a cute furry animal, since I'm a sucker for cute furry animals I
like it.
David Nelson wrote:
G'day,
Another recent photo I've taken in the garden. I'm lucky enough to
have a few sugar gliders in the area, and often get a couple feeding
on an acacia tree in my back yard. I was more-or-less testing to see
how I'd go with flash and my tamron 500/8 mirror at night. But first,
the URL (-:
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/glider.jpg
I'll be the first to list the faults of the photo:
- Tail cropped out.
- angle (shot from below) not great
- fairly un-interesting behaviour.
- Just doesn't "do it" for me. Does it do it for anyone?
Nevertheless, it's an extremely cute critter (they are only a bit
bigger than a largish rat in body size), and I plan to follow this up
by taking more shots when the opportunities arise.
I would have backed up a little, but I was in the bushes as it was (-:
Focussing was uber hard (torchlight, slow lens etc make for an
extremely dark viewfinder), and I think this is the only one I took
that is in focus.
I'd say lighting is okay, I used PTTL with the AF360, 400ASA and it
seems to have performed very well.
I actually would have liked a shorter lens too... 200 or 300 would be
ideal, and of course, faster would be very nice.
I have some vague plan to try and get shots of these things mid-glide
one day (this is sort of on par with my idea to get HSS shots of
insects in flight (-:).
Grateful for comments, as always!
David
