Looking at a 10 point Buck White Tail Deer in velvet
Fairly heavily cropped tripod mounted Canon new FD 500mm f4.5 L lens and A7r
ISO 200, f4.5, 1/640 second
Exposure corrected by +0.71 Stops; processed in LR6
August 14, 2015
At Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Even the squirrel from Costa Rica looks slightly different and for sure more colorful than those here in good ol' USA . Just FYI, it was fairly dark under the forest canopy; that's why the high ISO.
Backstage (snapshot from a short video)
As my favourite photographer Robert Capa said: “If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough. ”
This thread is moving so fast there is no way to comment on all beautiful shots
Another one from me, taken at my birthplace and where I grew up. Sony A7. 304 second exposure with three stacked ND 8 filters (little unsure how the filters perform, cheap ones, looked like they worked fine with two but weird with three stacked).
While shooting with my main long lens, I was alerted of a huge horn beetle nearby. I stopped everything and used my macro lens to take pictures of the beetle. Of course, I stopped down the aperture to f/11 for that. After awhile I went back taking more pictures of smallish birds as the activities seemed to pick up. And I had a case of a brain fart, I left the aperture at f/11 for some 10-15 shots. Not only the DOF became extended, rendering the background more distinctive, the needed exposures in the rain forest required higher ISO or slowish shutter speed. I ended up deleting most images as the the resulting shutter speed was not enough to freeze the motion of the birds. I was disgusted at.... myself. One to the images though turned out better than anticipated since the bird didn't move in that capture. Here it is.
Awesome building and shots Bob. A photographers dream building, and nightmare... "Honey, could you please hold the strobe so that we don't get reflect... ohh"
I understand why you wanted to stay there longer.
AGeoJO, I think we have done something similar and we've all been upset by it, the difference is you came away with a superb shot anyway so well done!
Dmitri, what a great capture! Great shot even without the meteor.
. Just FYI, it was fairly dark under the forest canopy; that's why the high ISO.
(snapshot from a short video)
