So I was walking....

Defy · Apr 8, 2009

We were taking our dogs for a walk and as it got dark....

I know it's not that cool but it was cool for me these bats just came out of no where so i zoomed the flash out and started taking pics! then i turned the flash off and cranked up the iso and tried (those were worst). both were taken with a 35 1.8. I thought it was pretty neat.

So does anyone know how to take photos of bats flying at night???

manaheim · Apr 8, 2009

Surprised that worked at all... interesting.

Jaszek · Apr 8, 2009

I thought those were bad pictures of the moon lol.

Pure · Apr 8, 2009

Jaszek said:
I thought those were bad pictures of the moon lol.

.....until I relized that the moon doesn't travel in a v shape...ahaha.

I thought the same.

TJ K · Apr 8, 2009

lol I thought you were going to try to explain a ufo encounter guess not fail on my part lol

c0ps · Apr 8, 2009

Hey are you going to enter those photos in the "Bats, Balls" contest? hahaha

bakkie · Apr 9, 2009

Unless you're prepared to expend some effort, including multiple strobe setup and luring them to a defined flight path you'd better stick to hanging bats. You have to get really, really close to them.

EhJsNe · Apr 9, 2009

If your hand is shaacky it could!
Here it travels in a C shape: "C" The Moon by ~listoman on deviantART

Defy · Apr 9, 2009

i was wondering why they are so white? i bet if i had a sb900 it would have been better.

Dao · Apr 9, 2009

TJ K said:
lol I thought you were going to try to explain a ufo encounter guess not fail on my part lol

LOL .. I thought about UFO or Ghost encounter after I saw the photos.

Defy · Apr 9, 2009

i am going to try again tonight (just for S&G's) my set up will include the 35 1.8 and 3 speedlights 2 on 8 foot stands. We'll see what happens....

Ecas32 · Apr 9, 2009

Defy said:
I know it's not that cool but it was cool for me these bats just came out of no where so i zoomed the flash out and started taking pics!

i know this is a noob question, but what does it mean to zoom the flash out?........im going to buy a 430 ex speedlite and i was just wondering

Defy · Apr 9, 2009

yeah no luck!

As for the zoom question: you can zoom your flash like for nikon you have

SB 600- 24-85mm
SB 800 goes to 105mm
SB 900 goes to 200mm

What is does is focus the light (kinda like twisting the end of a mag light) to concentrate the beam to match your lens length. Mine does it automaticly or you can manual zoom it out.