Wildlife and Nature
The PhotosbyKev website was created to house the large collection of bird, nature and wildlife photographs captured by photographer Kevin Lewis. Kevin is always looking for the next photographic challenge and is prepared to spend as long as necessary in order to achieve the best wildlife and nature photograph possible.
At all times Kevin Lewis has placed the welfare of the wildlife and nature first and where possible the photographs are taken without any disturbance to the wildlife or the environment.
The bird, nature and wildlife photographs stored on the PhotosbyKev website are freely available to educational, conservational and environmental groups and high resolution digital files and prints are available for commercial, stock and private use.
Recent Work
Star Trails
The Barn Owl Centre
Revisiting Water Droplets and High Speed Photography
Geometric patterns
Webcam Snapshot
A new attraction to the Photosbykev website is the interactive fish webcam.
To access the Fishcam page click here
Ballistic photography is always going to be a challenge but it is possible to get good images of air rifle pellets in flight.
I have started developing an Air Rifle Pellet Photobase, which is attracting a lot of attention from shooters and the pellet manufacturers.
Delving into the world of High Speed Flash photography has been interesting and I’m starting to get some reasonable images. My journey started here.
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All images, unless stated, are the copyright of K Lewis as defined by UK law
Fair use/fair dealing is not permitted under UK law
They must not be copied, reproduced or retransmitted by any means without the written permission of K Lewis.
Hello Kevin,
Great work! I am using a Canon 7D with a 580EX and a 580EX II and would like to know the best settings for the Stop Shot settings with the optional water droplet solenoid relay, connections and camera lag compensation.
The 7D camera is set to mirror lock up, manual exposure 1/250 sec at f16 manual focus. The 580EX II is connected to the Stop Shot directly but the 580 EX cannot due to a lack of the terminal. I am thinking of triggering this using the slave mode setting via wireless. The water droplet height is set to 2 feet. I would like to do water droplets and then move on to ballistics for a baloon using the IR sensors. Thanks for your help.
Hi,
the basic stopshot settings are in the manual for the unit for using the Cognisys stopshot as I use a solenoid valve supplied in the UK which has different characteristics. From about two feet the delay between droplets should be around 60-70ms for a collision, start with 60ms if you don’t see an impact gradually increase the delay value by 2ms at a time and eventually you should see the second droplet appear in the frame. I tend to shoot without lifting the mirror and the shutter is set to 1/10 second. I haven’t found any real quality benefit with mirror lockup except when you need a faster response from the camera after triggering. You might find that the delay in the wireless signal will introduce a second image which will degrade the final impact and as you want to move onto ballistics I would strongly recommend getting a hotshoe adaptor for the 580Ex so you can wire that directly to the stopshot and eliminate any issues with synchronisation. It is also possible to fit a 3.5mm jack socket into the 580Ex foot which I’ve done, a Google search will find the modification for you.
Hi Kev,
Fantastic photos, Jac Jones from Llanfechell, Ynys Mon gave me your web site and I am glad he did. Your photos of the area and the wild life are spectacular. Thanks for showing them. I am a member of the Holyhead CC and If you do give talks please get in touch it would be an experience for us all. Keep them coming.
@Trace
and no….. clearly i still cant spell proper!!
Hey “Old Friend” Great Images, one and all. Glad I have finally tracked you down again. …. Kiwi Bird!
Hi Kev.
Just popping in to have a peek at your photo’s. Great website and amazing pics, very impressive.
Air shots, superb
Amazing shots!
I really enjoyed each single one! (and I wish to shoot just one pic. like yours!)
Sure they are inspiring!
Thanks for publishing them.
Alberto
Hi
What an amazing collection of photographs. I am a very keen wildlife photographer,but nothing compared to your wonderful collection. What lenses do you use? Thank you. I just enjoyed looking at them. Regards M Craig
mainly a Canon f4 600mm prime lens but I have used right down to 10mm
Face lift looks great – the photos are what’s amazing.
I like all the pics especially the wildlife pics, nice work
Kevin
An outstanding job on the air rifle pellet database.
I was in the UK in the mid 80’s, (for approximately 2 years), and had an air rifle built by “Airmasters of Luton” (I have no idea if they are still around, but the HW80 air rifle they built still is.)
Unfortunately, here in Wyoming (USA) air rifles are not as popular as they may be in the UK, and information on their ammunition is certainly scarce. A visit to Google UK, and a search for “air rifle pellets” got me to your amazing web-site, and helped me find the pellets I loved shooting while in England.
Again… An outstanding database, (and some fairly impressive photography as well,) and a great overall web site.
Thank you for taking the time to comment, the database is still being built I have a lot of 0.177 pellets to photograph and add before it will be up to date.
Interesting photos…I like the high speed ones too but the animals are also good.
Inspiring stuff
Hi Kev,
It’s been good reading through your site over the last few weeks. You’ve given me a few ideas & challenges for the year ahead
I’ve tried to download your image processing tutorial, but only get a blank screen. Any chance you might re-post it or send it to me please?
Cheers
Tony
This is a direct link to the swf file, it does need to be opened in a browser
Hey Kev, awesome blog
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I decided to make one of my own and I’m just curious how you got your “random images” widget up. I figure it’s something in disguise like flickr but not quite sure what :p.
PhotosbyKev: email sent
The site is looking just great, Kev! The ballistics shots must be a real challenge! It’s also nice to see some of my favorite wildlife shots again.
Dear Kevin – fabulous photo’s! I realise that I have seen some of your work before linked from other places especially the pellet ones.
Would be grateful for the email address of Custom Stock, can’t make club Saturday so see you 2 in weeks
Bruce
Hi Kev. Just popping by to see how you’re going. The photos are amazing. You’ve become more and more talented over the years! I hope you are well.
Hello Kevin,
The balloon photo is amazing, the time was perfect to take such a photo!
Jingle bells, jingle bells!
Lovely site kev.
- Will
Hi Kev !
popped over from Deviantart and wanted to tell you that your website looks great ! Very nifty design, good-looking and yet clearly arranged.