Looking at a Young Buck White Tail Deer in velvet
Tripod mounted Leica R 280mm f4 Apo Telyt lens with Leica R 1.4X Apo Extender and A7r
ISO 800, effective aperture of f8, 1/250 second; processed in LR6.4
June 10, 2015
Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
The bright lights make the falling snow so easy to see. Next time the snow is falling hard, lay down in the middle of well-lit hockey rink the rink and look up. A million layers of snow, all slowly falling toward you. You can follow flakes 40 feet up until they make contact with your nose. So surreal. I'd highly recommend it.
To the naked eye some clouds were slightly visible, in the monitor everything beside of the moon was pitch black. Only in bringing up the shadows, the clouds became progressively visible, albeit noisy. Obviously a stretch even for the large DR of the a7rII. I tried the same with my Fuji X-T1, as expected, noise comes in faster.
Comparing Bokeh for 3 different lenses, FE 55mm, Tamron 35mm, Minolta 70-210 F4, at approximately minimum focal distance (35mm not quite but couldn't get closer), all hand held so bit variable for settings and exact focus.
rji2goleez wrote:
^ How you capture these creatures in mid-air is just incredible.
Catching them in flight is one thing; getting them in flight while in FOCUS and being able to repeat that as he showed us in the next post, is a completely different thing.
Ronny, you are an insect whisperer in addition to being a frog whisperer!
I prefer the 70-200mm GM lens for ease of operation with the Eye-AF enabled but this kind of image makes it hard for me to sell this lens....
AGeoJO wrote:
Catching them in flight is one thing; getting them in flight while in FOCUS and being able to repeat that as he showed us in the next post, is a completely different thing.
Ronny, you are an insect whisperer in addition to being a frog whisperer!
I prefer the 70-200mm GM lens for ease of operation with the Eye-AF enabled but this kind of image makes it hard for me to sell this lens....
Excellent work, Joshua. One (albeit expensive) solution to this problem would be Sony finally bringing a fast 135 prime for e-mount to the market .
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