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Jul. 22nd, 2009 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogBonus picture!
As I was exploring the ruins of the Quincy Mining Company No.2 shaft in Michigan's Keweenau peninsula, I disturbed a pair of turkey vultures that began to circle overhead. I suspect they had a nest somewhere in one of the ruins.
I did my best to get a few pictures of them from below. At times they were not so very far over my head, affording me a great opportunity for pictures.
I'm a total newbie when it comes to wildlife shots though, so these could have been better. They are also more processed than most of the pictures I've posted in an attempt to bring out detail and colour on what was a relatively gray and blurred shot.
The birds are so dark in these because these are cropped in from a larger picture that's mostly sky, and the camera metered for exposure from the much brighter sky. I could probably make the birds look a little better if I could selectively brighten them up to bring out the details. I still haven't installed Photoshop for this work since I am a busy (and, admittedly, procrastinating) dog.
I do have a couple pictures of both birds together, but they're distant and not that great.
I wonder what happened to those missing feathers. It didn't seem to affect the hawk's flying. I'm lucky to have seen something so beautiful, so close.
(Oh, by the way; can anybody confirm this is a hawk? I'm not all that sure! If it's something else, I'll update my tags. Thanks! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xirpha pointed out that these seem to be turkey vultures. Thanks Xirpha!)
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Speaking of technical lighting things, I was able to use my camera experience, on top of my experience in doing theatrical lighting work, to adjust the track lights in the board room at the company meeting I helped with yesterday to make our CEO actually show up on the video conference, instead of being a CEO-shaped shadow. I was amused by that.
It would have been even better if I could have pointed a couple lights at his face from across the room, but the other tech said that the CEO would have complained about lights in his face. Please; those things are nothing compared to having two 1000 watt ellipsoidal spotlights and a 750 watt fresnel shining at you while you're delivering your speech!
As I was exploring the ruins of the Quincy Mining Company No.2 shaft in Michigan's Keweenau peninsula, I disturbed a pair of turkey vultures that began to circle overhead. I suspect they had a nest somewhere in one of the ruins.
I did my best to get a few pictures of them from below. At times they were not so very far over my head, affording me a great opportunity for pictures.
I'm a total newbie when it comes to wildlife shots though, so these could have been better. They are also more processed than most of the pictures I've posted in an attempt to bring out detail and colour on what was a relatively gray and blurred shot.
The birds are so dark in these because these are cropped in from a larger picture that's mostly sky, and the camera metered for exposure from the much brighter sky. I could probably make the birds look a little better if I could selectively brighten them up to bring out the details. I still haven't installed Photoshop for this work since I am a busy (and, admittedly, procrastinating) dog.
I do have a couple pictures of both birds together, but they're distant and not that great.
I wonder what happened to those missing feathers. It didn't seem to affect the hawk's flying. I'm lucky to have seen something so beautiful, so close.
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xirpha pointed out that these seem to be turkey vultures. Thanks Xirpha!)================
Speaking of technical lighting things, I was able to use my camera experience, on top of my experience in doing theatrical lighting work, to adjust the track lights in the board room at the company meeting I helped with yesterday to make our CEO actually show up on the video conference, instead of being a CEO-shaped shadow. I was amused by that.
It would have been even better if I could have pointed a couple lights at his face from across the room, but the other tech said that the CEO would have complained about lights in his face. Please; those things are nothing compared to having two 1000 watt ellipsoidal spotlights and a 750 watt fresnel shining at you while you're delivering your speech!
