Boar Badger

[Trev B]

Boar Badger
1684 - Boar Badger 1684120823 by Trev Bartlett MBE, on Flickr

[Bill53]

Excellent Trev, beautiful image.

[antoeknee]

Fantastic animals. Sadly much persecuted.

[tigerburnie]

Fine shot, do you use fixed lighting or flash Trev?

[Trev B]

Fine shot, do you use fixed lighting or flash Trev?

Hi Burnie. All the Badger and Fox shots I've put up of late were all taken by flash at a site I set up some half a mile from the main Sett. I use two ( more often than not, one does not fire) old Sunpak 5000 hammerhead flash units that I've adapted to work off a car battery - both like me have seen better days! In order to focus I've got a 12 watt car bulb fitted inside a Chinese takeaway foil dish hanging above the site, also run off the car battery. I do struggle to focus the camera first off in view of the very low lighting, but once it locks on all is fine - I could increase the ISO, but keep it at 3200. One flash unit is fixed to a tree the other is on a fencing stake at arms length from my 'hideaway' which is a Gorse bush. I can rotate it depending on the position of the badgers - eliminating red eye HOPEFULLY.

At the Sett I have mains electric run off a small generator some fifty yards away. This allows me to light the Sett at full power although the lighting is controlled by a dimmer switch if I take anyone up there - which I no longer do. For photography the two 5000 hammerheads that I'm now using at the site are fixed on the roof each end of the hide. All a bit Heath Robinson but it works fine for me.

[Trev B]

Thanks Bill, Ant, Burnie and all for looking.

[Colin W]

Lovely photo Trev!

[pelliott1954]

A reward for all the work and ingenuity setting up to capture the shots

Paul