The Trick To Taking Clear Wood Ape Photos
The North American Great Ape blog recently posted part 2 of their guide to solving the blurry Bigfoot problem. The simplest way to avoid taking blobsquatch photographs is simple: Manual Focus. Most high end cameras have this feature, and you can usually enter the mode by disabling the autofocus mode. By manually focusing onto your subject, especially in challenging places such as thick wooded areas, the results are usually much clearer and more focused.
NAGA writes:
Nearly every camera on the market now comes equipped with a nifty little program called autofocus. When active, autofocus will approximate the subject you are trying to photograph and move the camera lens so that this subject is in focus. The feature was developed as a time saver, meant mainly for taking photos of stationary objects, groups of people, etc. For the vast majority of picture taking, autofocus works very well. However, attempting to use it in a forested environment creates several problems.
Forests and wooded areas are filled with animals, plant life, swaying branches, and often drastic changes between deep shadows and bright light. All of these can hinder the performance of autofocus. Unless a clear line of sight is established between the camera and its subject, the subject is not moving too fast, and the light conditions are stable, autofocus will not successfully take a clear picture. For an example of this, look at the photo to the right. The subject is standing at approximately fifty feet from the camera. This photo was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, a top of the line SLR boasting 18megapixels. The subject was stationary, there are not many leaves on the trees, and the conditions are clear. However, the branches in front of the photo managed to turn what would otherwise be a clear picture into a blurry mess. Such is the downside of autofocus, it is easily confused by foliage and non-stationary objects. Every nature photographer captures a blurry photo of their subject from time to time. If they didn't delete them, there would be just as many blurry photos of birds and raccoons as there are of the big guy.
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| Same shot as first photo but with manual focus |
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Just yell to the big guy to move out from behind the trees and step into the open so you can get a clear photo of him or her. That should work.
ReplyDeleteChuck
duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, focus who?
ReplyDeleteMorning All:
ReplyDeleteI just got off the phone with Jack Bindernagel. I said "Jack, do you have any plans for the weekend"? He responded "why yes, yes, why yes I do have plans or things to do for enjoyment this weekend, I will be competing in the over 70 Canadian arm wrestling championship at our local TGI Fridays. Each competitor will get a free t-shirt and the winner a $50 gift certificate".
I said "No Jack do you have any plans related to Bigfoot this weekend"? He responded "Again with fucking Sasquatch". "does anyone want to know the real Jack Bindernagel"? "Does everyone think my life revolves around fucking Sasquatch"?
I said "alright Jack, I'll let you go" and he said "No you are going to listen to this""Did you know my wife and I play in a Bridge league" or that "I placed second in our local Chili cookoff"? "or that I run our local neighborhood watch"? "does anyone care that just last week I saved a man's life by administering the heimlich maneuver when he was choking at the Olive Garden"?. I became interested in a topic, that being Bigfoot or the North American Sasquatch as it is called, I wrote a few books and now all anyone thinks of when you mention Jack Bindernagel is fucking Sasquatch".
"this is why I still go on Spring Break with my students, its the only time nobody mentions fucking Sasquatch". "I was even asked to be in a beef jerky commercial entitled "messing with Sasquatch"- enough already".
Congrats... you have officially jumped the shark with the Bindernagel posts.
DeleteTwo Olive Garden references in one day ... time to come up with some new material.
DeleteAgreed ... STFU already - you killed what little humor there was in that bit.
ReplyDeleteThe manual shot still looks like a blobhuman. Fake!
ReplyDeleteTwo things:
ReplyDelete1) Nature walkers, campers etc should have learned by now to keep the auto-focus in the OFF position.
2) Jack Bindernagel showed is ass big-time and in spades if that entry was a true conversation.
The Trick To Taking Clear Wood Ape Photos
ReplyDeleteSo where are these photos then? :)
The trick is to actually be photographing a real "wood ape" instead of trying to pull off yet another hoax.
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