For night pictures, I found out 2700K, even on a D4S, doesn't illuminate well enough for my Samsung smartphone. Rather, it's probably the camera sensor.
True story. I was walking down a rural road and heard the snort of a horse. The mare was about 50' away, with a colt, and being something to share with the kids, I tried to take a photo. Well, no dice. However, the mare was brown and the colt, black. I thought the camera would pick up something.
Thanks. Sometimes you get lucky.Usually they keep their distance.I also notice sometimes after they run in the woods,a few minutes later I will see them about 75 yards behind me and folowing me.
Edir:I have a flying squirrel on here somwhere.They are the absolute most difficult to get a photo.I got lucky once,and thats all it was…once.It landed on a tree and froze…scared of the light I guess.I have to look for that one.
I'm just about 200 miles away from the nearest flying squirrel populations in the States so they are definitely a curiosity for me.
I had at least one experience with a screech owl, recently, where I used a C8+ to observe it from about 75 meters. The best I thought I could do was get a recording of it but even that proved elusive.
I got within 15 to 18 feet from the Owl before it flew away.
I have gotten other pics of Owls before.That is the closest I got and the best picture.
EDIT: I never saw a Bald Eagle until 5 years ago. I have seen them about a Dozen times but never got a good picture .One time was at night.I heard a loud noise ,pointed my torch high up in tree as he flew away.
The last Eagle I saw a few weeks ago, there were Two flying together.Couldn’t get a photo.
in nyc the only wildlife i saw today was a roach, but it was too quick , it ran under cove base before i could take its picture. now I’m not sure if i should consider roaches a wildlife, seems more like domesticated animals
They hung around on the fence completely frozen for about a minute when I had them lit up with my phone’s LED. My LEP probably shocked them earlier before I saw them. Imagine suddenly looking into the sun in the middle of the night.