Scott's Random Pics

wud · Mar 12, 2014

They look sleepy :heart:

Scott Murray · Mar 12, 2014

wud said:
They look sleepy :heart:

Any excuse to get inside

Vixen · Mar 12, 2014

Nice doggies Scott

Scott Murray · Mar 12, 2014

Vixen said:
Nice doggies Scott

Thanks

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

Been sitting here in the dark taking photos of night Heron and salt water crocodiles catching and eating fish. Am now trying my hand at star trails is a good morning for it and the moon has set. Just have to be careful as the water is very high and there are some very big salties in it.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

Well this morning I got up at 02:30am and decided to go to Fogg Dam, I had a few ideas of what I wanted and one turned out. I was alone and had to be watchful of Salt water crocodiles. I saw 4.

Ok this first photo is a bad one but gives you an idea of where I went.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

This is the 2nd Olive python that I came across. The first quickly got off the road and went for a swim.

Here you can roughly see the size of it.

Lee532 · Mar 13, 2014

Looks like you had a good day. Great shots I've seen around the forum.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

This is not a good photo, but gives you an idea of what I had to watch out for.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

Swimming.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

I did manage this shot of the milky way. Again I sat in the car while it took the photo. This is a single exposure at 30sec, SB-910 was used to light the foreground (probably too much), ISO was 1000 and I used my 16-35mm at f/4

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

Here I was trying 2 different things, 1 I wanted to get some star trails happening and 2. I wanted to get some lightning.

The reason why I have not straightened the horizon is because it will cut off the lightning. Again I was mindful of the water behind me and the crocodiles.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

I was actually surprised at how close the birds were to the crocodile, but I did see a pile of feathers so he may have been full.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

Grey Heron with catfish.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

A lone spoonbill.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

The sunrise was amazing.

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

Now for a few funny bird shots

(Click images for larger)

Scott Murray · Mar 13, 2014

I used my car as a hide and for most part it worked quite well, while there was little light I used the 70-200 at f/2.8 but once I started getting more light I switched to my trusty old 80-400 at f/7.1

With these next lot of photos I was basically laying on the ground and the camera was at ground level. (Click for larger if you like - PS I think its worth it).