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Pondrader wrote in post #18665187
My fav time to shoot Mink is at ice out time in the spring, you get these holes in the ice the animals are just completely attracted to and they will tolerate our intrusion a little better.
I think the 7DII can be pushed up a long way and tend to shoot dark in some situations. Sometimes I need the speed to eliminate the motion blur its the real killer of images. When its down to business time I don't want any whites in the burnt zone and the 7DII loves to go to far, I guess they all do.

Some of my best stuff has come from this dark RAW files for just this same reason, even in super white conditions I tend to shoot on the dark side. Seems I'm always trying to make a f5.6 lens look like a f4 or better.

It obvious by your Flickr that you don't have much to learn from me.

If you think Mink are tough your gona have to try your hand at Mr Pine Marten... Its like trying to shoot a speeding bullet.

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Again let me say I appreciate your input and thanks for the comment. You've given me some ideas to play with.

This Pine Martin is just great. Don't know who mentioned it or what forum or thread it was in but I agree with them when they said you need to start work on a book. You would have a best seller on your hands.

docg wrote in post #18665193
Again let me say I appreciate your input and thanks for the comment. You've given me some ideas to play with.

This Pine Martin is just great. Don't know who mentioned it or what forum or thread it was in but I agree with them when they said you need to start work on a book. You would have a best seller on your hands.

Thanks Docg.. Maybe I need to start a thread called ... How to right a book... I'm sure these guys have thousands of ideas.

mwsilver wrote in post #18665039
Great shot. Love that Spit.

Thanks Mark.

Power............

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Pondrader wrote in post #18665187
My fav time to shoot Mink is at ice out time in the spring, you get these holes in the ice the animals are just completely attracted to and they will tolerate our intrusion a little better.
I think the 7DII can be pushed up a long way and tend to shoot dark in some situations. Sometimes I need the speed to eliminate the motion blur its the real killer of images. When its down to business time I don't want any whites in the burnt zone and the 7DII loves to go to far, I guess they all do.

Some of my best stuff has come from this dark RAW files for just this same reason, even in super white conditions I tend to shoot on the dark side. Seems I'm always trying to make a f5.6 lens look like a f4 or better.

It obvious by your Flickr that you don't have much to learn from me.

If you think Mink are tough your gona have to try your hand at Mr Pine Marten... Its like trying to shoot a speeding bullet.

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Jeff...that's a really nice Pine Marten shot. You are the "man of steel," who can stop a speeding bullet. You sure stopped that guy nicely.

UK_MARK wrote in post #18665438
Power............

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Beautiful shot, and "power" for sure!!

Lame-Duck wrote in post #18665445
Beautiful shot, and "power" for sure!!

Thanks Mike.

Pondrader wrote in post #18665246
Thanks Docg.. Maybe I need to start a thread called ... How to right a book... I'm sure these guys have thousands of ideas.

If you put lots of your photos in it, it should practically write itself, just descriptions and locations I would think would be enough for the most part.

Canonuser123 wrote in post #18665535
If you put lots of your photos in it, it should practically write itself, just descriptions and locations I would think would be enough for the most part.

Almost....mmmm everything I post is from here at home. Nothing is very far from me. How many pictures do you think would bore people to death. I should think there is a limit.
I must say I think your right... to wordy would be bad.

I would look in a bookstore or library to see what others have done as far as the number of photos needed for a book.

Amazon has its Kindle direct publishing where you can publish ebooks and paperbacks for free, may be worth looking into.
https://kdp.amazon.com​/en_US/

Mom,Dad & 2 Chicks

When my 7DII was delivered to me October 31 2014.. I had to wait 2 weeks to shoot the foxes, By then I already was on my second 10,000 clicks on the counter.

There was no 100-400Lmm II on every camera in sight.

Back then the guys would give me the business about foxes on clean snow... and how did I do it.

The answer is clear... shoot them standing on clean fallen snow. lol

This is number IMG_0035

Pondrader wrote in post #18665796
When my 7DII was delivered to me October 31 2014.. I had to wait 2 weeks to shoot the foxes, By then I already was on my second 10,000 clicks on the counter.

There was no 100-400Lmm II on every camera in sight.

Back then the guys would give me the business about foxes on clean snow... and how did I do it.

The answer is clear... shoot them standing on clean fallen snow. lol

This is number IMG_0035

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If there’s no snow then shoot them on clean unmown grass.
This was an old fox. Had cataracts in both eyes and couldn’t see very well. He knew I was there, not very far away, and wasn’t about to leave his den hole.

PS..... not as pretty as Jeff’s.

Pondrader wrote in post #18664596
Thats why I've been so messed up, I change iso and shutter without ever looking up from the camera when I'm shooting something interesting. take away your top wheel and it all goes out the window.

I've had many good times with Mink... except two years ago when they eat my prized Muskrats. After all the training to look pretty and everything. I had to lay off the hair stylist.

He still paused to make sure the coast was clear. And very true.. I reset the camera to a ready for action state after shooting something else.

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Wow nice work!

I think we all have the struggle with the settings, I think somewhere I heard a quote something like 'if you're not frustrated you're not trying hard enough...'