Posts by Peter Taylor
El Hondo Natural Park, Alicante; sunset with flamingos; September 2019. Nikon D5300, 18-55mm AF-S @ 18mm, f/3.5, ISO 640, 1/160s. At quarter of an hour before this photo was taken, I was surroun...
Meerkat on sentry duty, Bioparc Valencia, August 2017. Taken with my Nikon D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/1600 sec.
exiftool It's available as a standalone application for Windows, and in package distributions for Linux. You can remove all EXIF data from a JPEG with exiftool -all= path/to/file.jpg or you ca...
Lunar eclipse 2018-07-27*; shot from Valencia, Spain. Nikon D5300, 70-300mm AF-S @300mm, f/5.6, 1/400 s. If I recall correctly, this was shot hand-held, or possibly with a monopod, because my heav...
Shutter speed Shutter speed is the inverse of exposure time: i.e. it measures how long the camera collects light. This is the parameter with most flexibility: most cameras support shutter speeds at...
Kirk's dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii), Bioparc Valencia, February 2017. Taken with my Nikon D5300 and 1100mm f/11 reflex lens at ISO 250 and 1/800 sec. I like to consider this photo as proof that the ...
Long skimmer (Orthetrum trinacria), Tancat de la Pipa, July 2017. Taken with my D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec. A local privately owned nature reserve partnered with...
Butterfly on bracken, Muckross House (Killarney, Ireland), July 2017. Spotted on one of the paths a moderate way from the main house, shot with my Nikon D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, IS...
Somewhere around the port of Barcelona, April 2010. The building on the left is the Hotel W; the clock tower is obviously much shorter.
I'm not quite sure how to make one that will be as resistant to impact or scrapes as an engineered one. Many large lenses are sold with fabric "socks" as their only protection, so you may be worr...
...it's always kind of awkward to hold a slimy fish in one hand and a camera in the other. If you put the camera on a tripod pointing down, you free up a hand. This would also potentially let you...
