On 3/19/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I shot this last weekend and hadn't looked at it. There was a raccoon > in our backyard. I grabbed my camera off the desk. It had the DA 50-200 > 4-5.6 mounted. I zoomed out to 200 and took a shot. But it was too dark > to get any shutter speed, so I popped up the flash and took another as > the coon prepared to flee. This is the result. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4239206&size=lg >
I guess, being nocturnal animals, racoons have the same device in their eyes as cats do, that reflects light at night. Whatever the cause, cool shot!! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
