How hard are these to photograph when alive!!

Found this little chap/chapess on the kitchen wall so captured him/her and put them in the freezer!! Sorry, but I'm sure they felt no pain! Easy peasy then!

Lit with SB910 @1/32 and 24mm just to the right of camera. Leaf for authenticity!

Tags:   Jumping Spider Spider Too many eyes!

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Some garden birds shot whilst doing the Big Garden Birdwatch.

Tags:   Starling Great Tit Coal Tit Blue Tit Bird Bird Feeder Garden Garden Visitors

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Week 3 in the group 52 Photos - 2017 and the theme is "Birds"

Managed to spend some time in the garden in the daylight to capture this Long Tailed Tit. I like the backlit golden glow in this and the fact he/she is staring directly at me.

I posted a similar photo of a Blue Tit 2yrs ago and tagged it "Tits" first. Everyday it's in the top 3 most viewed photos in my stream with 17k views so far! Don't think it's bird watchers doing the searches!!!!

Tags:   Tits Long Tailed Tit Who you looking at? Garden Garden Visitors

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Spent a good chunk of my afternoon trying to capture birds in flight...I'd given up with the fast shutter as the lure was getting into the shadows! So I had to crack open the strobes.... After a fair few adjustments I came up with the YN968 just behind the fat ball feeder. Set at 1/8 power @ 70mm. Using HSS with the YN622 I was able to capture a few incoming flights to the feeder. I now need to create some distance between feeder and background for some better isolation shots. Thoroughly enjoyed the learning curve :)

Tags:   House Sparrow Bird YN968 Strobe YN622

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