Wildlife Photography at Home- Part 2

Dawn McCall
14 hours ago
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Wildlife Photography at Home Introduction

Taking time to look at nature in your own garden is overlooked by many, instead choosing to go further a field to various nature reserves. It maybe surprising to some but if you take the time to look in your garden there is always something worth looking at. I have found many intresting and sometime surprising things in my very small garden within the comfines of a large city, which we will explore in this series of posts of "Wildlife Photography at Home".

DSLR Camera Trapping in the Garden

In my last post I was doing a bit of DSLR Camera Trapping in my parents backyard as my dad reported that he had seen a funny coloured fox in the garden that resembled a Silver Fox (which is a rare melanistic variation of the Red Fox). Unfortunately I haven't managed to see a Silver Fox but atfer moving my camera trap to a different part of the garden I have captured another few photos of the same fox from my last post.

Above is one of two photos I got after moving my camera to a more secluded part of the garden in hope of getting photos of my dads mystery fox. It is not a Silver Fox I was after but I do like this image as it is a bit different from my other fox pictures.

The other photo I got was a photo of him looking in a bush and showing the same D shaped mark as the fox I photographed on the lawn. This shows that this is the same fox from before. He does have a bit of a silvery-grey tint to his fur but this may be down to species variation of the coat, possibly for summer and is not the black and silver melanistic variation I was looking for, however it has been an intresting project and I have got some nice photos from it.

Setting Up the Camera Trap for this Project

In this project I had two camera set-ups. One on the lawn and the other at the far end of the garden which is more secluded.

Set-up 1 (Lawn Set-up)

In this set-up I used I used Cognisys Camera Control Box, Canon 600D, Cognisys Scout Beam Sensor, 2x Canon Speedlite 580EX, Camtraptions Wireless Trigger V2 with power pack and some homemade poles for flashes, sensors and camera.

Set-up 2 (Secluded Area)

In the second set-up I used all the same equipment as the first but swapped two of the poles for a Cognisys Scout tree bracket and a Ultra-pod II for the second flash.