Tenn.Jer wrote:
Here's a cicada, fallen from the trees and slow to recover...though he did fly away eventually...
'til then I was able to use my 100L Macro, tripod mounted.
Jerry
Thanks, Peter; it's been mostly people photography for me lately, and not very much worthy of posting alongside the beautiful work here ....
But, I'm staying busy at home...going to Montreal/Quebec for a few days soon - never been in your lovely country east of Saskatchewan, so I'm looking forward to the new perspective. When I asked my wife about tracking you to Ontario to pick up your 400 2.8, she laughed, then gave me...The Look. Maybe another time ...
Here's a candid of my brother-in-law's girlfriend, with my rented-now-returned 200 f/2L; I LOVE that thing, but keep proving to myself that I don't need to own it...a couple hundred dollars a year in rental fees to save $6000...not entirely wasted money...
Well thanks, Cam, though I'm only in Montreal for two evenings (my oldest daughter gets to spend her 21st birthday in Old Town Quebec), Schwartz's sounds good... I'm not a real upscale kinda guy - though I DO own a tie...and two tuxedos: a tie-dyed one and a hand-embroidered black one...
Jerry
I believe excellent high ISO noise handling is one of the strongest 1DX features which can be readily seen, i.e., it's not difficult to verify.
Particularly for someone like myself who is coming from the 1DsMkII/1DMkIIN level of ISO noise handling, the file cleanliness leap with 1DX is major.
Here is an example shot with handheld 1DX + 400 f/5.6 at ISO 3200.
The in-camera ISO noise suppression has been turned off, and those are SOOC JPGs with no pp other than cropping #2, and resizing both for web posting.
Granted, with a high luminance of the scene, particularly the background, this is not a very tall order, yet if I were to do the same shot with 1DMkIIN or 1DsMkII @ ISO 3200, the image could not be made presentable even with a NR application. How much better is 1DX than 1DsMkII ? I reckon close to 4 stops.
The image #3 shows one little bastard getting tired of posing for test shots so he decides to leave.
p.38 #10 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
Here are a pair of owl butterflies, Caligo memnon. There are a bunch more butterfly shots here.
To keep up my role as summer jess-ter, here is also an encounter of a pair of sea monsters, survivors of a summer storm. It's actually a crop from an attempted landscape with maximum tilt using the 24 TS-E II.
Thanks for lining up so nicely!
There be monsters! Ugh, garden millipedes are a pain, dead leaves are not.
p.38 #12 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
I love that first cityscape in B&W; the designs in the building fronts make my eyes...wiggle...and that's a good thing!
Chicago has quite an iconic riverfront skyline...
Great Work, here...
Jerry
It being nice, and there being plenty of birds around, i decided to also make it my annual BIF day too. Though with us only having seagulls and ducks around here, and the ducks being allergic to flight, it was more of a (juvenile) Seagulls In Flight day. Despite the bright and contrasty conditions i did better than usual - more than one shot both in focus and in frame....
p.38 #19 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
PetKal wrote:
Kevin, that looks good......bugs are not easy to shoot with handheld 500 f/4 without extension tubes..
Here is one of my bug shots done with handheld 1DsMkII + 500 f/4 IS MkI (w/o tubes) last sumer.
thank you Peter, i left in such a rush yesterday morning (didn't want to miss sunrise) that i forgot to bring my 12mm extension tube.. though i'm not even sure how much help 12mm would've been on the 500mm monster =P
i love the bokeh on that dragonfly shot! you're definitely right that handholding the 500 for shooting at macro distances is challenging.. hopefully i'll get more of a chance to practice BIF (i refuse to practice on seagulls & cormorants any longer, they simply fly in a straight line) the next time i take the 500 out as well.. i went to a pond specifically to look for terns (saw dozens there the last time I was at this park) & saw a grand total of 1 all morning yesterday..
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p.38 #20 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
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