Mink...

[New York Hillbilly]

How many minks does it take to make a coat?

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Just a few more than it takes to change a light bulb! hahaha

[BizCT]

Just a few more than it takes to change a light bulb! hahaha

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[Doc]

So, I have to wonder. Your walking along minding your own business and all of a sudden a mink pops out the end of a culvert and is looking straight at you. You know he is not going to stand there very darn long.... what? .... maybe a half second or so? So how do you keep your wits about you and make any adjustments necessary, compose the picture and get that shot off in time? That is amazing. Does your camera have some kind of automatic instant focus? I know if it were me, by the time I figured out what was going on and even thought about pulling the camera up, he would be back inside that culvert never to b seen again......lol. It I almost comical to watch me taking a picture. Fuss with this, mess with that. No, not quite right....start over. Oh the light is wrong. Anything that can move will never wind up in one of my pictures.

[wooly]

So, I have to wonder. Your walking along minding your own business and all of a sudden a mink pops out the end of a culvert and is looking straight at you. You know he is not going to stand there very darn long.... what? .... maybe a half second or so? So how do you keep your wits about you and make any adjustments necessary, compose the picture and get that shot off in time? That is amazing. Does your camera have some kind of automatic instant focus? I know if it were me, by the time I figured out what was going on and even thought about pulling the camera up, he would be back inside that culvert never to b seen again......lol. It I almost comical to watch me taking a picture. Fuss with this, mess with that. No, not quite right....start over. Oh the light is wrong. Anything that can move will never wind up in one of my pictures.

 

Fuuny Doc!

Auto focus helps, and is usually good enough,but it's not always as fast as I need it to be and still miss a lot of shots I wish I had nailed.

The hardest thing for me is switching settings between say shooting landscapes or waterfalls and next thing you know you're face to face with a fuzzy critter.

It has become sort of second nature now after so many years of doing this. I don't have to look down at the dials and buttons on my camera to make adjustments any more I just need to remember to do it.

For this guy I had to do that on the fly as he scurried up and down, and over and under the boulders along the edge of the stream.

 

Wish I was ready for this first shot of him shooting out the pipe, but maybe next time I am...

 

[Elmo]

A dSLR focuses much faster than a point-and-shoot camera. That is why they are so much more expensive. Being a familiar with your camera is very important as well. Like wooly who can adjust all the settings instinctively and very quickly. Even still, anticipation goes a long way. In major sporting events like baseball, they will have multiple photographers assigned to different spots on the field. If there is a runner at 3rd, they will have a photographer manual set his camera to home plate instead of auto-focus (which can take time no matter how fast as milli-seconds count). The photographer is anticipating something to happen at the plate with a runner at 3rd. Once the runner runs for home, the photographer just have to press the button and the camera shoots instantly. It's does spend time focusing since the photographer has already manually focused before hand. Of course animals are harder to predict.

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