Capturing Moments

[Ragged Robin]

Studying a subject to photograph is intriguing and satisfying when it works out but how often is the shot too late, out of focus or in bad light?

Capturing moments on camera can be a real challenge and action shots are often full of surprises and detail missed with the naked eye, so when the birds were moving so fast on the feeders I had a try....

with the video setting



and video stills

[maggiepie]

Robin, you are lucky to have all those lovely little birds in your garden.
The only small birds we have at the moment are chickadees.
I couldn't view the movie on youtube with my computer, I don't have whatever is needed to view m4v files but lucky for me Edgar has whatever is needed so I was able to view it eventually.
I bet you spend a lot of time watching the birds.

[Maggi Young]

I was not able to view the video earlier... but I just clicked back again and was wable to view it right away.... go figure!!
Lovely footage and the long-tailed tits are so pretty... I'm jealous that you are able to film them 

A super ideas for a thread... "capturing the moment" has so many directions to travel in......

[Ragged Robin]

Helen, so pleased you will see the video eventually - the whole thing happened so quickly I wasn't sure what I had captured or where to point the camera for fear of missing some gem whilst the birds were feeding so frantically.  The onset of the snowy weather just brought them out into the open and then they disappeared with only the regulars on the feeders now but they are still a joy to watch  

[Ragged Robin]

I was not able to view the video earlier... but I just clicked back again and was wable to view it right away.... go figure!!
Lovely footage and the long-tailed tits are so pretty... I'm jealous that you are able to film them 

A super ideas for a thread... "capturing the moment" has so many directions to travel in......

Oh good - I found it difficult to view to begin with too, Maggi, it just hung there in the black loading and so I was trying to work out what to do...but my library kept telling me it was loaded    Anyway glad it's up and running and look forward to seeing other captured moments of all sorts here 

[Gerdk]

RR,
Enjoyed your pics and the video a lot!
Thanks for showing!

Gerd

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Gerd, have you ever tried using video to capture moments?  I was amazed that the video setting on my camera made it possible to record what was otherwise almost impossible!

[cohan]

hmm....getting used to a new keyboard, just lost the message...
i haven't tried the video for this kind of thing, but seems likely an easier way to get pics of this kind of subject!

[Ragged Robin]

Cohan, next time you go into your yard and beyond maybe you could capture something for this thread - your hoar frost image is still in my mind as being an outstanding moment... a fabulous red sky this morning over the Alps....though fading as this shot was taken!

[Paddy Tobin]

Nice one, Robin.

Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Paddy, the red morning sky followed an amazing sunset on the previous evening - I don't  remember seeing both one after the other like that before - all change from crystal clear light to clouds building up over the peaks bringing more snow today....

[Gerdk]

Thanks Gerd, have you ever tried using video to capture moments?  I was amazed that the video setting on my camera made it possible to record what was otherwise almost impossible!

RR,
Unfortunately no video setting on my camera. Also I miss a telephoto lens. So I have to
enjoy wildlife pics from others - not bad either.

Gerd

[cohan]

Cohan, next time you go into your yard and beyond maybe you could capture something for this thread - your hoar frost image is still in my mind as being an outstanding moment... a fabulous red sky this morning over the Alps....though fading as this shot was taken!

nice--those sunrise/set moments are always very fleeting/changeable..this wasn't video though, was it?

we have had so much fog/frost this year!(today the frost is dense from 2 days of fog, and now the sun is out, so i have to get out there a bit before work.)
 tons of pics i am still sorting--and just switched to a new computer, so i am still figuring out the existing software and trying to move over some old familiars...lol
funny thing is for initial resizing/compressing and batch naming i still haven't found anything i like as well as my old fuji software (3 cameras ago!)

[Ragged Robin]

No time to get the video camera Cohan it was over in seconds!  I missed the peak moment and this is a still shot as it went over.  Do hope your computer set up isn't too difficult to install....I hate even doing updates    do you have a PC or Mac?

[cohan]

No time to get the video camera Cohan it was over in seconds!  I missed the peak moment and this is a still shot as it went over.  Do hope your computer set up isn't too difficult to install....I hate even doing updates    do you have a PC or Mac?

ah, i thought perhaps you were doing the vids with the regular camera; i have the capability, but don't do it often..
i have pc, mac would be nice, but beyond my means...lol; this is a new laptop which as these things go is much more powerful than the old desktop, which wasn' that many years old! set-up wasn't bad (and frankly, i didn't have to do that much of it!) but i find i don't care for the way a lot of things work on the new windows 7-i find many things seem to need 2 steps that were one step before! but i suppose some of that i will just get used to, and other things hopefully i will eventually tweak to my satisfaction..

nicest change is simply the size of the machine--esp since the old one had one of the giant old monitors (although still really quite good, being sony)