Some fancy footwork n weaving for your viewing, an early morning snooze in a web, soon after spider awoke and wondered off into hiding, waiting...
Handheld by a newbie, my dear friend Kathy, this was her 1st shot with a DSLR, normally she shoots with her cell phone! Taken with a 50D and 70-200 f4L IS, set on "P" professional mode, brought the blues up a tad in lightroom, it's a mild crop, took the blurry palm tree trunk out the frame.
Tenn.Jer wrote:
skibum5, you really caught both the exuberance and the concentration of those surfers; even falling looks like great fun!
Great Work...
thanks!
(crazy thing is, the guys who look like they are falling off the board there actually stuck all of those as much as it seems like the frame before a wipeout on 2 or 3 of them!)
StillFingerz wrote:
Some fancy footwork n weaving for your viewing, an early morning snooze in a web, soon after spider awoke and wondered off into hiding, waiting...
Handheld by a newbie, my dear friend Kathy, this was her 1st shot with a DSLR, normally she shoots with her cell phone! Taken with a 50D and 70-200 f4L IS, set on "P" professional mode, brought the blues up a tad in lightroom, it's a mild crop, took the blurry palm tree trunk out the frame.
A well seen shot, Jerry.......that web is not easy to see, let alone focus on.
I can tell that Kathy has the eye.
Tenn.Jer wrote:
skibum5, you really caught both the exuberance and the concentration of those surfers; even falling looks like great fun!
Great Work...
(crazy thing is, the guys who look like they are falling off the board there actually stuck all of those as much as it seems like the frame before a wipeout on 2 or 3 of them!)
I wondered about that, but, not being a surfer, I think of the experience as constantly falling off the front of a wave while standing on a plank...
Those folks have an incredible talent - only a step away from flying....and then the green bikini surfer is in a class all her own ...
Peter, it looks like the focus point is at the lower body?
Did the AF system stumble, get behind time wise, unable to track the lift-off from the side?
IDK, the foreground water is sharp, body and eye seem okay...wings n background out of focus...slow shutter speed?
There's really limited shallow DOF for this shot, not your norm for the 800.
It's still a cool take/lift-off shot, eyes always intense and purposeful.
I flew out my van once, forgetting the lift was on the deck, a few seconds later me as well, wonder what story my eyes did tell!
No worries, I scratched my knee, didn't get hurt, the chair didn't break, as I broke it's fall...
I check all open doors now, just in case
Jerry, what probably happened there is the duck suddenly went into a flap, so I tried to change the AF point to a new framing as quickly as the joystick would permit, and lost it in the process.
The next shot is in good focus although there are some other issues with it.
The second shot below is actually the first frame taken in the flap sequence, before I changed to another AF pt. As you can see, the wing has diverted AF away from the duck's eye/head .
Needless to say, all this was shot in Servo AF, one preselected AF point.
Understood Peter, quite the skill you have developed! Tracking with a monopod can't be an easy feat!
That's something I can't manage; changing focus points on the fly, without functioning fingers I'm stuck with one pre-set FP...it's why the center AF of the 6D doesn't bother me, it's all I really use!
These are cool shots, 1st time we've seen the underside of his wings, quite detailed and varied, nature at it's finest...simple beautiful
It's feet are missing I'm guessing your 800mm again, would a 600mm have captured the entire pijun?
StillFingerz wrote:
It's feet are missing I'm guessing your 800mm again, would a 600mm have captured the entire pijun?
Jerry, even 800mm can do the whole bird comfortably, in fact all of these images are something like 20% crop. However, what is a good framing for one attitude type of the bird, i.e., swimming from left to right, becomes inappropriate when the bird turns around and starts to swim from right to left, then it charges head on towards the camera, then it becomes erect and starts to flap, etc. All those attitude types require different framing and different tracking AF pt. selection.
Now, if I was shooting with a 300mm lens, then all of this would become immaterial because the center AF point would be the only thing required to track the bird, regardless of whatever she might decide to do.
PetKal wrote:
Thank you, Jerry, a friend of mine let me into his "secret place" for woodie photography.......before that I was in a similar situation like yourself, the ducks were always way to distant even for 800L.
Your deer shots are always first class......you see, I do not get opportunities like that.
Jerry, very nice deer. Peter, great work with the duck! Have you tried the 61-zone AF yet? I've been playing around with it a bit at football games, and in certain situations it works pretty well. As for deer photos, you need to come to Hamilton. But, not joking about this... just down the street from me, near Cootes Paradise, I photographed a juvenile deer this past Sunday with a 28mm lens. Since I didn't shoot it on Canon, I'll just link to the post.
In any case, fall = football!
These were from a local university game a few weeks ago... All with the 1DX and 400 IS v.1
It's an American anti-royality thing.
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