15Bit and Edd, thank you! To be honest, it started with a nice preset, and I continued to experiment from there. Sometimes I want to make all my photos blue, since I really like that color.
A couple of views a short walk from where I live, taken with 5D + 24-105L (Bought the lens last week to use for an upcoming trip - very pleased so far, even though I generally prefer primes. It's surprisingly sharp at all focal lengths, even at f/4, and of course the zoom range is very convenient.):
Thank you Edd and Gregg! I like the 24-105L more the more I use it. It will be perfect for the trip I think (together with 35L). Here are a few new shots:
PetKal, I don't know how you can stand using that old junk like the 200 1.8. I'd gladly take if off your hands to save you from the embarrassment of using obsolete camera gear.
PetKal wrote:
Nice Norwegian wood, Helena.
We can't have Psychic post BIF shots with abandon here, without someone responding in kind.
Behold some greatly obsolete technology in action: 1DMkIIN + 200 f/1.8 wide open, shot as JPG, no bird baiting used.
Oh Peter, you poor lost soul! You give us the cold (winter) shoulder for days on end then return with these sad images with your dated gear. Puh-lease!
Yours in awe,
-Cam
I spent a couple of weeks participating a bit in the proceedings on the N&W forum, trying to improve my craft by learning from the experts in the field.
However, not all of my gears are ancient and obsolete.
Behold the Canon's new King-Kong of a lens in action on 1DMkIIN, handheld: 400mm f/2.8 IS MkII. That lens offers an opportunity for me to reinvent my BIF photography.
If 500/600 II are anything like it, then they will be worth their price......except, they obviously can not do f/2.8.
Took this last weekend while visiting Oregon. 5Dc + 17-40L. Don't really have a lot of winter weather photo opportunities here in Austin so it was a nice change.
roboticspro wrote:
Peter: Wow, tack-sharp, but I've got to ask ...hand-held for that moment?
Edd, real men need no stinkin' pods, whatever the lens.
In fact I haven't mounted 400 II on a pod yet, and it doesn't look I'll do it any time soon.
That is based on the following two considerations:
(1) ( Enabling): 400 II is somewhat easier to use handheld than 500 f/4 MkI (No doubt and happily, 500 MkII will reverse that.)
(2) ( Effectiveness): Fast action photography which involves quick/long/unpredicted lens swings just can not be done well off a pod. One simply has to use the camera/lens handheld standing up. That should not come as a news to us: the duck, pheasant, quail etc. hunters have figured that out a long time ago. Fundamentally, the same human body motor and hand-eye coordination processes are involved in that type of hunting as in BIF photography.
BTW, Edd, the 400 f/2.8 pedigree shows on that Whitethroat sparrow (?) shot.....very pleasant with a top notch composition.
PetKal wrote:
That's one fine image, Robert......is that HDR ?
Shot at three EV -1.5, 0, +1.5. Merge in PS. A bit of sharpening. Does that make it HDR? Frankly, I don't know anyway to get a good sunset without multiple exposures. Anyone have a one shot trick?
PetKal wrote:
[Edd, real men need no stinkin' pods, whatever the lens.
Geez...did I get spanked.... , but it just goes to show that equipment with follow-through and form is another part of the "Image Quality" equation. I think we all need to be reminded of that from tim-to-time...got it!
Peter: That last DIF shot is a keeper...looking like "Charge!" with wings; I really like it
And yes, that one with the FD 400 is a White-throat Sparrow, which is just visiting. Thanks for the comments...that old lens has a lot of potential for use around my woodlands, but I just can't imagine swinging it around anytime soon
Lee, Robert: Really nice images...they look good
Since it continues to be very un-seasonally warm here, I'm going to take one of the kayaks out to see if our visiting waterfowl will let me get close. The ice is either gone or paper-thin, so moving around should not be an issue.
