Wednesday 2 September 2009

Catch a fish and eat it all in seconds

This is a new area for me but following on from yestersdays post on fishing; I thought I would try an animated GIF of the heron and his catch. From catching it to swallowing, it was gone it five/six seconds and 18 pictures. To get a smoother animation I reckon I would of had to shoot a sequence of 54 images! Not sure the camera's buffer would cope with that. Any way the GIF is below, think you will get the idea of the Heron's efficient technique.








2 comments:

Simon Taylor said...

Nice attempt Bob. With my D70 that takes 3 frames an hour that sort of thing is only a dream for me. Good effort.

Bobbster said...

If light permits I could take 10 frames per second for 30 images before the buffer was full. In this case the shutter was a slow 1/500 sec. So I guess i could of added more frames, but I think the animation has the effect here. Light permitting and a co-operative subject should get more frames next time!