What Took You So Long?
In this picture, the parent of the young owl has just arrived with the first of many rodents for the young Barn Owl on top of the nest box. If you view this large, in lightbox, you can see the rodent's tail hanging out of the parent's mouth. Since these owls only venture forth at dusk, this young owl hasn't probably had any food since it first got light around seventeen hours ago. The owl and it's sibling have been screeching "feed me" for the last two hours. There are two young barn owls living in this owl house on our property and one of them learned to fly 8 days ago, and the other one first flew four days ago. As far as we can tell, the young owls still can't feed themselves, and are dependent on their parents to feed them. Soon, though, they will be able to feed themselves. In the next image, which was taken three seconds after this one, you can see that the young owl has jumped off of the roof of the owl box and has grabbed the rodent in one of it's claws, while its sibling jealously look on.
I lit this with one bare strobe on each of the tall light stands on either side of, and close to, the owl house. This house is about thirteen feet off of the ground, and the light stands are positioning the strobes a little below and off to either the side of the house. I'm using a YN560 and YN560-II in manual mode at 1/2 power, and they are triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N trigger. I sit in a chair away from the camera and trigger the shutter with the same trigger that fires the flash. I have one trigger in my hand, one receiver on my camera, one receiver on the YN560-II, and the YN560 is in slave mode and fires when it senses the other one firing.
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/...
What Took You So Long?
In this picture, the parent of the young owl has just arrived with the first of many rodents for the young Barn Owl on top of the nest box. If you view this large, in lightbox, you can see the rodent's tail hanging out of the parent's mouth. Since these owls only venture forth at dusk, this young owl hasn't probably had any food since it first got light around seventeen hours ago. The owl and it's sibling have been screeching "feed me" for the last two hours. There are two young barn owls living in this owl house on our property and one of them learned to fly 8 days ago, and the other one first flew four days ago. As far as we can tell, the young owls still can't feed themselves, and are dependent on their parents to feed them. Soon, though, they will be able to feed themselves. In the next image, which was taken three seconds after this one, you can see that the young owl has jumped off of the roof of the owl box and has grabbed the rodent in one of it's claws, while its sibling jealously look on.
I lit this with one bare strobe on each of the tall light stands on either side of, and close to, the owl house. This house is about thirteen feet off of the ground, and the light stands are positioning the strobes a little below and off to either the side of the house. I'm using a YN560 and YN560-II in manual mode at 1/2 power, and they are triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N trigger. I sit in a chair away from the camera and trigger the shutter with the same trigger that fires the flash. I have one trigger in my hand, one receiver on my camera, one receiver on the YN560-II, and the YN560 is in slave mode and fires when it senses the other one firing.
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/...