Another recent photo I've taken in the garden. I'm lucky enough to have a few sugar gliders in the area, and often get a couple feeding on an acacia tree in my back yard. I was more-or-less testing to see how I'd go with flash and my tamron 500/8 mirror at night. But first, the URL (-:
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/glider.jpg
I'll be the first to list the faults of the photo: - Tail cropped out. - angle (shot from below) not great - fairly un-interesting behaviour. - Just doesn't "do it" for me. Does it do it for anyone?
Nevertheless, it's an extremely cute critter (they are only a bit bigger than a largish rat in body size), and I plan to follow this up by taking more shots when the opportunities arise.
I would have backed up a little, but I was in the bushes as it was (-:
Focussing was uber hard (torchlight, slow lens etc make for an extremely dark viewfinder), and I think this is the only one I took that is in focus.
I'd say lighting is okay, I used PTTL with the AF360, 400ASA and it seems to have performed very well.
I actually would have liked a shorter lens too... 200 or 300 would be ideal, and of course, faster would be very nice.
I have some vague plan to try and get shots of these things mid-glide one day (this is sort of on par with my idea to get HSS shots of insects in flight (-:).
Grateful for comments, as always! David
