Doug Kerr
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I started to cover here the story of the first phase of our barn swallow nest, but I got off the track.
To summarize, three young successfully stared their own lives. It's quite a story, and I'll fill you in on it shortly with some shots of the little birds.
But I was anxious to show you the latest development. The parents are tending a second clutch of eggs in the same nest - or at least, so we thought. We hadn't wanted to go up the ladder (as we had early in Phase 1) to peek.
Today we set up to shoot the nest from directly overhead using our Canon PowerShot SX110 IS. We used our Manfrotto monopod as a boom (with the camera on a ball head by way of a Manfrotto RC-2 series quick connect interface). We triggered the camera remotely from our laptop with Breeze Systems' PSRemote remote capture software for the Canon PowerShot line. I ran the boom, and Carla operated the camera from the laptop.
It was our first experience with tethered shooting, and we're delighted.
It all works smooth as silk.
So here we see just what we would have expected: a new clutch of cute little spotted eggs.
Douglas A. Kerr. Barn swallow eggs 1
Full frame, ex camera except for downsampling and sharpening after that.
These eggs are a little less than 1" long
To summarize, three young successfully stared their own lives. It's quite a story, and I'll fill you in on it shortly with some shots of the little birds.
But I was anxious to show you the latest development. The parents are tending a second clutch of eggs in the same nest - or at least, so we thought. We hadn't wanted to go up the ladder (as we had early in Phase 1) to peek.
Today we set up to shoot the nest from directly overhead using our Canon PowerShot SX110 IS. We used our Manfrotto monopod as a boom (with the camera on a ball head by way of a Manfrotto RC-2 series quick connect interface). We triggered the camera remotely from our laptop with Breeze Systems' PSRemote remote capture software for the Canon PowerShot line. I ran the boom, and Carla operated the camera from the laptop.
It was our first experience with tethered shooting, and we're delighted.
It all works smooth as silk.
So here we see just what we would have expected: a new clutch of cute little spotted eggs.
Douglas A. Kerr. Barn swallow eggs 1
Full frame, ex camera except for downsampling and sharpening after that.
These eggs are a little less than 1" long
