Oh Oh!
This picture was taken on June 20th, and is the day that this young female Barn Owl fledged (flew for the first time). Since they've not done it before, and have spent their entire young life inside the owl house, there are a few wrinkles that they need to iron out. Like landing. You can tell she's very young by the downy nesting feathers on her legs. Two weeks later, those feathers were pretty much gone. When they first get out of the house and fly, there's a lot of debris that the owls shed when they fly, which is illuminated by the strobes.
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. While I'm taking pictures, I'm just seeing shapes, and have no idea what the details will look like. I'm triggering the camera shutter and strobes from my chair by using the Yongnuo trigger. I love this technology.
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/...
Oh Oh!
This picture was taken on June 20th, and is the day that this young female Barn Owl fledged (flew for the first time). Since they've not done it before, and have spent their entire young life inside the owl house, there are a few wrinkles that they need to iron out. Like landing. You can tell she's very young by the downy nesting feathers on her legs. Two weeks later, those feathers were pretty much gone. When they first get out of the house and fly, there's a lot of debris that the owls shed when they fly, which is illuminated by the strobes.
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. While I'm taking pictures, I'm just seeing shapes, and have no idea what the details will look like. I'm triggering the camera shutter and strobes from my chair by using the Yongnuo trigger. I love this technology.
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/...