Buckeye Herps Blog

A photographic journal of the reptiles and amphibians of Ohio, Michigan and other places interesting wildlife call home.
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Feathered Herps from 2011

I picked up some binoculars a couple years ago for turtling, and started to spend a little more time with my eyes in the sky this year.  Spending much of my field time along the lakes in Michigan and Ohio places me in some wonderful places to do some birding. I am at best a fledgling birder, and hope to do even more next year.  I also need plenty more work on my avian photography.  Here are a selection of images from 2011.

Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus

White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys ?


Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus


Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus

Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis


Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
American Redstart  Setophaga ruticilla

Yellow Warbler  Dendroica petechia

Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalu

Kirtland's Warblers  Dendroica kirtlandii



Bobolinks  Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Trumpeter Swan  Cygnus buccinator

Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis

White-breasted Nuthatch  Sitta carolinensis ??

Well that's about it for the birds this year.  I have a bunch more un-usuable stuff.  Hopefully, with some more work on my technique I can increase the number of keepers as well as improve the quality of my shots overall.

BH

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

LYTRO

A new camera company named Lytro released a statement recently about their product.  It is a different way to capture images, which provides some ability to change the focus and view point of the image after taking it.  Check out their website, and see what you think.



Pretty interesting stuff.  If you look at some of the images, it seems the extremes still stay slightly out of focus though.  Like you can't really get the trees or car in the background fully sharp.  If you look at the below image though, the results are pretty astounding.



I love photography how it is, and don't think I would want to move away from some of the basic photography principles.  That being said, I am sure people felt the same way about the digital revolution.  It will be interesting to see if this takes off, and if so, how it might effect future digital cameras and their capabilities.  In some ways, the DSLR market is tapering off after periods of exponential growth.  It is hard to really add much more to the current cameras and each new model seems now only be baby steps better than the one before it.  Could this be the technology to change all that?

On other fronts, I bought a house.  I have been busy as a bee working on finding a home, pushing this through, inspections, and now packing.  I haven't had much time on the computer and am way behind on photo editing, uploading to the internet and blogging.  I have a lot of time off in July, and will try to blog a bit, but plan to be traveling.  Lots.  Hope to have some exciting stuff soon.

BH