Camera & Harvey update

[hellziggy]

I noticed Harvey v. 2.005 out in the back yard at about 8:30 so I put the new camera on the tripod & put my 300mm lens on and headed out to see what I could get...
Since it was starting to get dark, even with setting the camera at 800 ASA I had to use a 2 second shutter speed to get a good exposure. Luckily other than a little twitching rabbits sit pretty still.
I would take a few shots, move closer, take a few shots, move closer...
I ended up about 6 feet from Harvey. Here are a few of the shots I got. The blurryness in the first two is not the camera, it is the bunny twitching & such. A two second exposure is pretty long for a living creature, but I was mostly interested in seeing what kind of zoom I could get out of my lens on this camera. Plus, da bunneh, he be kewt. :)





And then I used the flash (which oddly enough didn't make him run away. He just ignored it)
Run!!! It's the Devil Bunny!!!

Comments

[spankspike.livejournal.com]

Oooh devil bunny - reminds me of this horrible movie from the 70's called 'Night of the Lepus'. It starred the eternally over-acting William Shatner and was some pile of crap about mutant killer bunnies. Had terrible special effects that were mostly a lot of cute real bunnies hopping around tiny sets. Your bunny here is a million times scarier than anything on that movie. I seriously doubt anyone else remembers this one though - I've spent way too many nights watching old movies!

[girlpire.livejournal.com]

yikes. you should photoshop some fangs on bunnicula there.

[theatre-nerd.livejournal.com]

Very nice! Better than I could do! I never get good wildlife pictures.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

If it's a bad movie with Shatner I would bet money that my hubby has seen it!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

But he's such a cute ickle bunny wabbit. Not "Grr, Argh" at all.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
The long lens helps when dealing with wildlife! This was also the closest Harvey ever let me get to him.