Thirsty Bats

They are superb - especially like the third one.

You're right - that is some setup although it all makes sense.
 
I think this sums up what was needed to take the shot!

To generate enough flash to capture the shot Kim needed an incredible 3,500 volts
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But even the whole setup outside of that is amazing, down to getting the bats to drink from a certain location.
 
Wow! Stunning shots.

Just shows how much obsession can go into getting "that shot".

Superb!
 
orangio said:
Thats amazing!

There are bats that fly around my back garden every night at the same time, ive attempted to shoot them, but the buggers are way too quick!
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Same here. They're just too quick! Those are stunning photos.
 
I've wanted to shoot them, but I can barely see them they are pretty quick little things!
I'm sure they fly around at dusk catching flies around in my garden..


Great work that man, and pretty much a strobist setup shot as well!
 
That is just downright amazing, loving the bricks counterbalance in the setup too. You only expect shots like that to be achievable with the backing of the BBC natural history department, not some bloke in his garden in Giuldford using a few bits and bobs he had lying around.
 
Brilliant although i'm not so sure he just had those bits lying around

I like the reflections best of all, well that's me feeling daunted for the rest of the day,can't even aspire to get any shots like that
 
Fantastic - love how he has actually shown his setup. Not something you see alot outside a setting like this!
 
i have done a bat hunt at night with a bat society
the leader turns on the lamps and no one else can use lamps or flash
its to do with kindness to the animals

you have to be quick and have high asa....erm...whats asa...??.;)

all the members however carry sonic detectors so they can 'see' the bats approach and movements
 
Thats stunning!

Have bats in our belfry, ok loft , and watch them at dusk from the patio,
but never managed to capture them as an image.

That set up shows a very determined person and the results show that determination,
they just blow you away.

Hmmmm, now lets have alook at that old flash gear and bits?? :suspect:
off to the shed for a tinker be back in a year or two :lol:
 
Absolutely stunning images... :eek: ... thanx for the linky... :thumbs:


Did you notice that even the geezer gets labelled in the pond set up diagram... :lol:



There you go Cedric... :shrug: ... now you know what you've got to do to get your Batty shot... :naughty:





:p
 
Wow!!!! That is amazingly captured and one helluva setup too. I've seen the bats whizzing around my garden feeding, but have enough trouble tracking them at all..
 
Wow,
I was going to ask yesterday how to capture bats, as I could hear some flying around the other day whilst I was doing a night shot.

This kinda makes me think I ain't going to manage it with a speedlite and luck
 
Those shots are absolutely stunning, well worth the setup.

I dont get why he needed such high voltage though, what am I missing? I'm guessing they not your usual flash guns?

Matt - I thought that about the reflections but if you look at them you can see they arent simply copies of the bat as you can see more parts of the bat in the reflection, like inside his right ear in the first picture (the bats right not ours).

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:lol: what am I saying! if the bat was just inversed you wouldnt even see his belly :lol: This is why I dont do photoshop :D
 
Wonderful pictures and amazing technique :)

Nothing new though, as seems to be the claim. Stephen Dalton has been doing this for decades, and with a similar DIY outfit.

Here's one of a swallow drinking - identical set up. He's got hundreds like it, all absolutely stunning.

http://www.stephendalton.co.uk/photo_1235867.html
 
okay WOW!

less photography and more technical wizardry but amazingly clever.
very impressed

as for the above like, that barn owl shot is superb

I think the novelty to it is not a movement sensor but capturing something at night, that is amazingly fast and covert, in an act you don't normally credit them.
I completely didn't know that bats drank on the wing, I thought they got enough water elsewhere.
also using a detector that scans for ultrasonics...that's pretty clever too
 
karmagarda said:
Wow, cheers for the link hoppy. That's an amazing photo!
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Glad you like it :) I think Stephen Dalton is a genius, frankly. He's perhaps best known for his early work with insects, every wing beat frozen in incredible detail. It was his images of a bumble bee, which science proved couldn't fly, that showed how they did it - never been seen before at 1/25,000sec.

What I like most is the aesthetic quality of his images, not just their technical brilliance. They're all here, on the NHPA library site - over three thousand of them! http://www.nhpa.co.uk/bin/nhpa.dll/...&_spe=0&_spw=0&mw=2&_filteraut=0&_filtertext=
 
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