The Missed Landing
One of the Great pleasure of watching the young owls learn to fly is seeing them make mistakes on their landings. The owl on top, who flubbed the landing, and almost fell off the roof of the owl house has only been flying for six days. The owl below started flying one night before, and later in the evening, went out to fly again. We don't think that they're capable yet of being able to catch all of their own food, as they spent much of the evening screeching for the parents to come feed them. We had this owl house installed a couple of years ago for purposes of rodent control, and the owls have done a great job, but the real pleasure has come from watching the progress of the young owls that are born every spring.
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/...
The Missed Landing
One of the Great pleasure of watching the young owls learn to fly is seeing them make mistakes on their landings. The owl on top, who flubbed the landing, and almost fell off the roof of the owl house has only been flying for six days. The owl below started flying one night before, and later in the evening, went out to fly again. We don't think that they're capable yet of being able to catch all of their own food, as they spent much of the evening screeching for the parents to come feed them. We had this owl house installed a couple of years ago for purposes of rodent control, and the owls have done a great job, but the real pleasure has come from watching the progress of the young owls that are born every spring.
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/...