How to photograph a bat
Bats fly very quickly and only at night, taking pictures of them is extremely difficult!
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Bats fly very quickly and only at night, taking pictures of them is extremely difficult!
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How do you manage to focus on the bats and frame them? I figure you crop the pictures afterward for the framing but the focusing still eludes me, unless you’re using a very large depth of field, doable with the bunch of flashes…
They are very ugly!
you are very ugly.
….these images are truly breathtaking.
And ugly? hardly!
I really was wondering if the “Bat Detector” was the guy sitting there for longer than I should have.
I think they’re spectacular — and the photographer was brilliant for setting this up!
Amazing shots! Absolutely stunning. The rig looks like something Red Green would come up with, except I don’t see any duct tape, and it works.
Impressive work!
Awesome shots!!!
Congratulations!
=)
Amazing photographs. I’ve recently had two bats in my house and was in enough of a panic that I never got to see them up close. They don’t look nearly as intimidating in still frame as opposed to seeing them in flight..
Jim
Wow. Unbelievable effort, great pics….
And: unbelievable that the bat actually flew down there, with that much stuff standing around…
Thumbs up!
Hi, amazing photos! They are not ugly, there are incredible creatures!
Wow, great pictures and great work!
I always wondered how photographers got bats. I would see them at night and never be able to make out a single detail, even when they were in the light. They just move so quickly and erratically. They’re like squirrels with wings.
aww, i think they’re cute!
thanks for photographing!
Whoooah! Nicely done!
good job but… for me it’s too hard
Great pictures!
Incredible! These are excellent pictures and the set up is very creative.
Absolutely FANTASTIC photos, and an ingenious setup to get them! Kudos!
Bats are not ugly. They are uniquely designed for flight. The species of bats, like this one, which use echolocation have specialize ears, and faces for sending out and receiving back their echolocation vocalizations. Though I can not tell for certain from the photographs however the last two photos appear to be the Western Long-eared Bat. These bats prefer to eat moths and beetles which are crop pests. They and other species of bats save billions worth of damage to crops each year.
The fur of bats is remarkably silky and soft and it is very clean. They do not want to be bothered by people and have no interest in people.
All bats play a very important role in what ecological system in which they live.
This photographer has done an amazing job photographing these wonderful creatures.
[...] hair or bite your ears or make that bat noise. Anyway, this guy prefers bats, and he’s got a really cool (probably typical) setup for automatically taking their picture when they swoop in for a drink at his backyard [...]
You have a small aperature for good depth of field and a wide angle lens and autoshutter from the bat detector. Please post some info.
They’re awesome!
Absolutely Stunning
Any more details and pictures.
I showed these to my son, and he wanted to see more bats!
wow that seems like a lot of work!
Wonderful pictures!
No! They’re lovely!!
Bats are awesome!
They look so awesome
That’s foking awesome!!!
Actually, this one’s quite cute
Fantastic shots. Those bat ears are so huge, like satellite antennas
WOW !!!! Great job !! well done.
Wonderful! This goes to show that you can accomplish the seemingly impossible with vision, persistence, patience and certainly some experience and skill in photography. But it all starts with curiosity and playing the “what if” game.
WOW. It’s amazing to see the complicated set up to take these photos – it’s like they are just the tip of the ice berg – so much behind the scenes to make it perfect – kind of like a performing artist – just beautiful, thanks for sharing.
These aren’t real bats, real bats don’t have a reflection do they?
Love the photos, love Bats. Once woke up early on a Sunday morning to find a Bat flying around my bedroom! I managed to catch it and set it free in the garden. Bats are great, very cute.
I’m not gonna lie I thought this was so adorable the little tongue haha so cute