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Sadly the hares at home don't seem to be doing quite the same as last year,so the hours in the hide( ok a bit of careful hedge tweaking) sat eve and sunday at dawn proved fruitless. Once we had the chores done we went out again and scouted some spots. The most numerous population we know were on good form had hares boxing both sides of the road,just needed a bit of luck,which sadly came in the form of a lady with doggy dog game over light just about gone,but some cool stuff seen . As we started to wind our way back we got lucky,a corner of the eye spot very slow gentle back up and a very obliging hare. Bless him or her,hours and hours and hours over numerous sorties without an image but sunday we at least came back with something Images taken from a vechile are ok but the pov is a bit pants,mind no complaints this one was cracking. My darling was with me and able to be very close too. which is a rare thing ,so that alone made my day. Sure not the boxing shots we are so desparately trying for ,but a chance to wack on the 2X and see if all the mfa efforts had got us anywhere ,actually in the field. You can make your own minds up on that,but i'm pretty upbeat,do remember I can't selectively sharpen as yet.
Naturally at 15 /20mins before sunset the light should have been wonderful,but amazingly it was dull grey,who would have thought
,my god my luck with the light is bad of late but hey ho. So the shutter is lower than wanted as is the DOF but a fair and decent chance to explore the 2X.
Incidentally Mick(mufftrix) if you see this I took some rather crap grab shots of what appeared to be a leveret and a couple of courting bunnies together. I have actually never seen rabbits and hares together,so a little first,but quite interesting for id having both in the same frame. Also interesting to just see that size of leveret right now,she must have been born very late last year. I say she I feel that to be right as there was a big ol boy lumbering around after her pretty much double her size.
So all in all not a bad afternoon,some great behaviours seen,Shaz now knows what I mean by disco hares,I'll show you 'orrible lot one day,lmao, A young hare which must be terribly unusual to see right now, and a really tolerent chap to get some pretty close pics of. We have both noticed how vibrant "orange" our hares are right now,i'm unsure if there is any thing going on,sure they'll be moulting into summer coat,but we have both wondered if there is any colour shift that coincides with peak breeding. this is something I am a bit unsure about with the image below, I've shifted the colour tone to the red side slightly in dpp,but maybe hare is too pink.... red rather than orange.it's niggling me Slight crop RHS and base,purely to remove the galvanised gate I was shooting through at this stage
So usual gear 1Div 300f2.8 with the 2X not 1.4ext 1/320 f6.3 iso 2500
Guys in this senario I should have either gone bare or had the 1.4 on,it was almost silly trying to squash me mate into frame especially later this was one of the first images of this encounter. I actually lost shots to clipping bits off. But evaluating the 2X is very important to me. I'll get another chance at a hare,but it was a hard choice to make. I am very aware that there are many who would just love to see a hare in the wild,let alone be a few yards away from a chllin one as here. It seemed almost flippant to risk images. I am very aware of how lucky we are,sure we graft for them and it has taken me years to build the local map I have of hare spots,but it still wasn't done lightly.
So much uncertainty surround the 2X and how it can effect IQ,then couple in me ,as a novice,we all need confidence in our gear. I feel this (set) of images might possibly contain sharpest I have got with the 2X,any thoughts to this end I'd love to hear..
Thanks for looking, cheers for all the previous help
take care
Stu
_70F5976 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr
Naturally at 15 /20mins before sunset the light should have been wonderful,but amazingly it was dull grey,who would have thought
,my god my luck with the light is bad of late but hey ho. So the shutter is lower than wanted as is the DOF but a fair and decent chance to explore the 2X.Incidentally Mick(mufftrix) if you see this I took some rather crap grab shots of what appeared to be a leveret and a couple of courting bunnies together. I have actually never seen rabbits and hares together,so a little first,but quite interesting for id having both in the same frame. Also interesting to just see that size of leveret right now,she must have been born very late last year. I say she I feel that to be right as there was a big ol boy lumbering around after her pretty much double her size.
So all in all not a bad afternoon,some great behaviours seen,Shaz now knows what I mean by disco hares,I'll show you 'orrible lot one day,lmao
, A young hare which must be terribly unusual to see right now, and a really tolerent chap to get some pretty close pics of. We have both noticed how vibrant "orange" our hares are right now,i'm unsure if there is any thing going on,sure they'll be moulting into summer coat,but we have both wondered if there is any colour shift that coincides with peak breeding. this is something I am a bit unsure about with the image below, I've shifted the colour tone to the red side slightly in dpp,but maybe hare is too pink.... red rather than orange.it's niggling me Slight crop RHS and base,purely to remove the galvanised gate I was shooting through at this stageSo usual gear 1Div 300f2.8 with the 2X not 1.4ext 1/320 f6.3 iso 2500
Guys in this senario I should have either gone bare or had the 1.4 on,it was almost silly trying to squash me mate into frame especially later this was one of the first images of this encounter. I actually lost shots to clipping bits off. But evaluating the 2X is very important to me. I'll get another chance at a hare,but it was a hard choice to make. I am very aware that there are many who would just love to see a hare in the wild,let alone be a few yards away from a chllin one as here. It seemed almost flippant to risk images. I am very aware of how lucky we are,sure we graft for them and it has taken me years to build the local map I have of hare spots,but it still wasn't done lightly.
So much uncertainty surround the 2X and how it can effect IQ,then couple in me ,as a novice,we all need confidence in our gear. I feel this (set) of images might possibly contain sharpest I have got with the 2X,any thoughts to this end I'd love to hear..
Thanks for looking, cheers for all the previous help
take care
Stu
_70F5976 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr
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