BIF (Bat In Flight)

This is my first attempt. Let me tell you these things are hard to shoot. I took about 50 frames to get one not so decent shot. I was happy just to be able to tell it was a Bat after PP.

Excellent capture when I try it's just black, well done..

well done! i have bats that fly near my house every night. i must have taken about 1000 photos of them but never had a single one in frame and in focus. that is very hard to do

Very well done! I can’t imagine a tougher subject to shoot.

Where was this taken? That is a western/eastern red bat. They are very cool animals. They are a tree roosting species and are not well known/documented.

Thanks!

Schell wrote in post #10202853
Where was this taken? That is a western/eastern red bat. They are very cool animals. They are a tree roosting species and are not well known/documented.

Thanks!

I captured this shot in my front yard (Mississippi). It was more of a "lets see if I can even get one in frame" kind of thing. This was the best of all the shots. I do plan to try again with a little different approach.

I love bats.amazing beasts, and kudos to you for getting that much detail!

I went back thru the pics and found one more.

I tried adding a little contrast to the first one.it brought out a few details...

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i have tried to get a shot of these and always something not right,,,

very good shot,

what contributes to the x-ray glow?

It's very difficult to catch these guys in flight.

Nice job!!!!

JNRSM3 wrote in post #10206405
what contributes to the x-ray glow?

I'm not sure. It may be the fact that the shot was over exposed. It may be the amount of PP I did (I'm not that good). Also there wings are almost translucent and the shot had some back lighting from a security light.

These are cool!

looks like that would be hard to capture nice job