Morning horse roundup, White Stallion Ranch, Tucson, Arizona.
Another one from day one of the Awesome Arizona Photo Tour / Workshop.
Awesome Arizona Photo Tour!
Our models riding through the desert on day one of our Awesome Arizona Photo Tour!
More Fox!
Gray Fox, Desert Photo Retreat, Tucson, Arizona.
So my write up on yesterday’s post unfortunately was omitted. But as you may have guessed, last week a built a third blind, one with an elevated reflection water table that I’m really excited to try! I have also been trying to get some different fox images.
I noticed the fox sometimes uses this rock out-cropping as a lookout over the canyon and our camp. So I decided to set my camera up there for something different.
The fox makes multiple visits to the water hole every night, but this spot was not nearly as popular. I made many trips up and down the mountain in the dark with camera gear over three nights – one time at mid-night thanks to an unexpected rain, but last weekend he finally showed up! Next time I hope to get his whole body, but it is a good start.
Third Blind
Been a very busy week here at the Desert Photo Retreat building a new photo blind along with a reflection water table! This one should be perfectly orientated for the morning light.
Lumber for the new blind
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl, Desert Photo Retreat, near Tucson, Arizona.
A pair of Great Horned Owls nest on our property – we enjoy listening to them at night. On occasion, they will bath in the water hole. Last night, I was set up with my remote camera trap when one came in for a bath! He actually climbed into the water and splashed around, but unfortunately those images were inside my focus point. I never know for sure where to focus and usually chose the waters edge. When you are just 2 feet from the subject, I have very little depth of field. Here I went with f/8, which gives me about a foot of depth of field, but I lose a lot of stars at this aperture. I could pick up a lot more stars at f/2.4 or wider, but then I have even less DOF.
This was with a Canon 5d III (don’t want to risk my newest camera!), 24 Rokinon manual focus lens set at f/8, iso 1600, 20 second exposure and two off camera Nikon SB-28 flashes manually set to 1/32 power. Triggered this time with a Camtraption trigger. I also use Camtraption wireless triggers for the flashes.
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