marcelbooth » Animals

Carry on … walking the dog

Marcel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:07:03 +0000

There were two sheep in a field, right…..

Marcel — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:11:57 +0000

Jack and Jenny

Marcel — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:05:04 +0000

Summer flight

Marcel — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:55:35 +0000

Two dragons fight in Liverpool

Marcel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:26:20 +0000

Little Birdie

Marcel — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:45:00 +0000

Taken with the ‘Nifty Fifty’, 50mm Lens. Very tame birds at this cafe!

Walking the dog

Marcel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:03:44 +0000

Hungry birdie

Marcel — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:27:26 +0000

This was taken with my Nifty Fifty (50mm f.18). Not sure what bird it is But it was quite hungry. It was hopping from table to table stealing the crumbs from plates. This is an uncropped shot too

One man and his dog….

Marcel — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:53:02 +0000

….and his girlfriend. I spotted these sat on a bench on the seafront at Cromer. I noticed straight away this guys hat, and decided all three of them would make a nice shot, so I turned round, lifted my camera, backed up a bit and said “You dont mind do you?”, to which he said “Not at all”.

This was out of the ordinary for me as I’m way too shy normally to take people shots, let alone ask them, yet this was the second time in the same day!.
In my flustering panic, I didn’t really think about my settings (my bad, completely), and left the camera on f13, which resulted in a slow shutter speed.
I realised, and rattled off another frame before saying my thanks and walking away. I didn’t want to ‘outstay my welcome’ so to speak, so only walked away with the two shots.

I am kicking myself now, as the second shot, I cut the dogs feet off…grrr….so shutter speed aside, this was inherently the better shot. OK, I wont stand up to the scrutiny of an enlargment but it will certainly do for the photoblog

Exif : Canon EOS 30D .. 41mm .. 1/30 .. f/13 .. ISO-200

Name that bird

Marcel — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:19:44 +0000

And no, I don’t mean “George”, “Floella” or “Tarquin”. This was taken at the Bolton Abbey meetup on Sunday. After a good walk around the Abbey, we settled in the Tea Rooms for lunch. After dining on a rather nice chicken and mayonnaise sandwich and a pot of tea, we were idly passing the time when lots of birds got rather brave and decided to make a few mad dashes for our leftovers.

I did get put the 50mm prime lens on at one point, but they just wouldn’t sit still, so I was quite pleased to capture the ones I did get, this being one of them. For my Sigma 70-300, at 149mm, I was quite pleased. While trying to shoot these, I was fully aware of my lens soft points, so tried to keep it over f7.1 and under 240mm.

Exif : Canon 30D .. Sigma 70-300 APO DG Macro .. 149mm .. f8.0 .. 1/250 .. ISO 200