Sunday, September 29, 2024
Fungi Season Starts at Paxton Pits
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Great White and Little Egrets Abound at Paxton Pits
We counted around a dozen Great White Egrets, Little Egrets and Grey Herons collectively at Paxton Pits during our Third Thursday walk today plus a pair of Great Crested Grebes in winter plumage but still preening in tandem as in their spring displays.
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Nature at Your Fingertips
Thursday, August 29, 2024
28th August Paxton Macrophotography
Yesterday was our second Macrophotography Day at Paxton on a very warm humid day. Having talked about the various techniques that could be used in the field (depending on camera models, type of image wanted visually and the intended use of the image), we spent the rest of the day on the reserve finding some models for our techniques.
Image 1 (Green bottle) is a stack of Raw images using in-camera Bracketing and stacking in Zerene stacker.
Images 2, 3, 4, and 5 are in-camera stacks producing a jpg image (Olympus OM-D EM5iii).
Images 6-10 are single shots with a wide depth of field (1/250 sec F14)
Images 11-14 are set on Procapture (1/2000th f8) hoping to capture flight!! I was particularly please with the Spiked Shieldbug as I had never recorded how the wings unfold in Hemiptera before.