One thing I love about shooting in the wild is the constantly changing environment provides a seemingly infinite number of possible outcomes from moment to moment. This also allows for a wide-variety of equipment options. Variety, and the unexpected is what I love most about shooting in the wild.
Here I humbly submit two shots of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds taken from same shooting location yesterday. The first is an "environmental" taken with the 800L from 40 feet and the second a tight shot taken with the 70-200IS II + 1.4x from 4 feet.
p.49 #10 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
As always many very inspiring images. I may focus my shooting on R/C but I really enjoy anything in wildlife or around the garden. Great stuff. Maybe I'll try shooting a few Monarch Butterflies this week to see if I can nail an exposure or 2.
p.49 #11 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
PetKal wrote:
Here is something for Jerry the Master of Garden Photography.
Handheld 1DX + my beloved 200 f/1.8 wide open in golden hour light.
Peter those are wonderful images! Master...he coughs n chuckles...just a beginner here, much to learn even with these still fingers
Thanks for the post, my weekend was all indoors programming instead of outside shooting! Even on bed rest there's no slowing me down...can't have that, me pea brain still functions, you'd think after 20 odd years of c++ing I'd grow tired of the language but nope it's fun as ever, not unlike photography it's all about design...in our minds
The sunflowers are great! What berry/fruit is the 3rd pick, my lady n I are stumped?
p.49 #14 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
PetKal wrote:
Thank you, Jerry, while you were making $$, I was wasting my time shooting this or that this weekend.
That blue fruit is some kind of a wild prune plum, I believe. Perhaps they are even edible for humans, not going to test it though.
Here is another baby sunflower about to unfurl, done with 1DX + 200 f/1.8 wide open, a major enlargement crop.
I'm drooling here Peter! Really am looking forward to exploiting a FF sensor...in the meantime there's a 50D that requires much more pressing into action...your images do impress, think I'll plant some sunflowers next season
p.49 #15 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
Just posted these in the Photo Critique forum as well. I used a Canon 7D to trigger a 580EXII that was in slave mode with the 7D's onboard flash set to NOT fire during the exposures. I held the flash in various locations and took a photo each time using the 10-second timer and a tripod and merged them all together using Photoshop.
p.49 #16 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
Timothy, I think you have done a very fine portrayal of a good looking car, in fact you presented its shape/lines so well that the car marketing folks should take notice.
Since you posted this on the Critique forum, I shall take the liberty to give you a few suggestions as well, from my own amateur perspective:
(1) The sky/treeline and the flare competes with the central subject for viewers attention, and it doesn't add much to the image. I'd just crop it all out.
(2) There are several other distracting elements such as a fence....also, all of it I'd eliminate.
(3) I also think you've got too much direct light on the door panels (1st image) and the tail (2nd image). If you could tone that down and perhaps add a bit of environment reflection on the body panel so as to suggest a luxurious hi gloss paint finish.
p.49 #17 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
Thank you! I will keep those things in mind as I practice more. My ultimate goal is shooting aircraft photos in the same style at the local airport where I work. I bet those rich pilots might be interested in making me rich in trade for high resolution prints of their airplanes
p.49 #18 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
RazorTM wrote:
Thank you! I will keep those things in mind as I practice more. My ultimate goal is shooting aircraft photos in the same style at the local airport where I work. I bet those rich pilots might be interested in making me rich in trade for high resolution prints of their airplanes
Good luck, Timothy....I think there is a good potential there.........rich folks like to have nice pictures taken of their superexpensive toys, be they cars, planes, boats, horses, etc.
p.49 #20 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
In sRGB (it definitely mutes a few of the images, especially removing all the brilliant bands of the sunset and the purple flowers get radically muted and changed) and in smaller size for those using non-managed browers/smaller monitors:
