First Flight
Last night, the youngest of the two barn owls hatched and raised in the owl house on our property, flew for the first time. We'd been expecting it for a few days, as it's older sibling had flown for the first time six days ago. As you might expect for a beginner, it made a few mistakes on landings, including trying to land on top of a strobe sitting on a light stand. Sadly, I wasn't set up to take that shot. We get a lot of pleasure out of watching the progress of our young owls. Very soon they will move out of the owl house, and be able to hunt for themselves, and the house will be vacant until next winter, when a pair of owls will move back in and the cycle will start again.
In order to light this, I placed a strobe on each of two tall light stands positioned close to, and on either side of the owl house. The YN560 and YN560-II, both in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. Because it's tough to focus in the dark, I set the camera on a tripod while it was still light outside and then prefocused on the area where the young owls would be.
I have all of my owl pictures in my Barn Owl set which can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/...
First Flight
Last night, the youngest of the two barn owls hatched and raised in the owl house on our property, flew for the first time. We'd been expecting it for a few days, as it's older sibling had flown for the first time six days ago. As you might expect for a beginner, it made a few mistakes on landings, including trying to land on top of a strobe sitting on a light stand. Sadly, I wasn't set up to take that shot. We get a lot of pleasure out of watching the progress of our young owls. Very soon they will move out of the owl house, and be able to hunt for themselves, and the house will be vacant until next winter, when a pair of owls will move back in and the cycle will start again.
In order to light this, I placed a strobe on each of two tall light stands positioned close to, and on either side of the owl house. The YN560 and YN560-II, both in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. Because it's tough to focus in the dark, I set the camera on a tripod while it was still light outside and then prefocused on the area where the young owls would be.
I have all of my owl pictures in my Barn Owl set which can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/...