After work yesterday I stayed behind to photograph the owls as the weather looked dry for a few hours and they have had no free food all week, so should be hungry for a free meal.
The setup has now been more streamlined and easy to get everything set in 5 mins.
This is how I do it now and it takes a minimum time to get set up as the distances are now set and don’t change.
I sank two logs into the ground a foot tall out of the ground, 4 1/2 meters from the 3 posts, one on either side at roughly 45 degrees to the posts, and drilled an inch hole 6 inches into the log into which I fix the light stand having taken off the feet.
I then attached the flashes and adjust the height.
The Led light is now on a tripod and adjusted to height.
Flashes are set to 1/16 power and the led light to 1. (I can adjust the flashes and led light from inside the hide so no need to go outside once setup)
Flash & Led setup (Flashes encased in half a 5ltr water bottle to waterproof and Led inside a plastic box to protect from elements.(Simple but free).
Basically, that’s it, turn everything on and put out some chicks, and wait.
Both birds were waiting and just after dark the first one came and land on one of the posts and started to feed on one of the chicks.
After an hour all the chicks were gone and I had managed some nice shots, so I packed up and drove home.
Here is some from an hour’s shoot with the owls.
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