The quality of the images on here just keeps getting better. As a birder, I am really impressed by the wingspan on that Great Egret, Joshua. Nice.
This series is more about the story than the quality of the images. The sun was low and right behind these two and I have found that the 100-400GM sometimes really does not focus well in those conditions, even using MF in come cases. I had the 600L with me, but didn't have time to switch to it.
The male was watching the female work on the nest and I guess she just looked too good to pass up..
The last shot was really soft, but it was such a great "after" image that I had to include it! My wife thought I should Photoshop a cigarette in the male's beak
All shots A9, 100-400GM w/ 1.4 TC 1/800 @ f8 ISO 500 +0.7EV
kimknapp wrote:
The quality of the images on here just keeps getting better. As a birder, I am really impressed by the wingspan on that Great Egret, Joshua. Nice.
This series is more about the story than the quality of the images. The sun was low and right behind these two and I have found that the 100-400GM sometimes really does not focus well in those conditions, even using MF in come cases. I had the 600L with me, but didn't have time to switch to it.
The male was watching the female work on the nest and I guess she just looked too good to pass up..
The last shot was really soft, but it was such a great "after" image that I had to include it! My wife thought I should Photoshop a cigarette in the male's beak
All shots A9, 100-400GM w/ 1.4 TC 1/800 @ f8 ISO 500 +0.7EV ...Show more →
Thank you very much, Kim! Great images of the herons and I like your wife’s idea .
This series is on the proper side of the sun. Big crop, but with the sun behind me, they turned out nice and sharp.
The blackbird was pretty funny, watching the Grebe.
Went for a walk in the woods on a cloudy/foggy evening. I always say, and fail to know, "what would Samuli do?" With apologies to his greater skill, here are a few hand held shots in low light.
So, outside of photography, I've been working on building my Christmas present. My wife's family banded together and got me the Lego Hogwarts Castle for Christmas. It's an absolutely enormous set (the second largest Lego has ever made actually), with 6,020 pieces. It came in 41 bags of pieces, had four full instruction manuals, each with around 325 steps. I finished it this afternoon, and of course I took some pics. The back of the castle is a cutaway, and has about a dozen scenes, from the Chamber of Secrets, to the rooms in the first novel towards the end, to a few classrooms, the Gryffindor common room, etc (I'll spare you a huge array of lego photos though).
First, the before (just taken with my phone):
And the completed product (A7 III with Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 for the first two and the Voigtlander 21mm f/3.5 for the last):
Lens I love but almost never shoot with: Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM
Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM @ f/2.8, 1/160s, Sony A7 (Kolari v2) @ ISO 125
Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM @ f/2.8, 1/80s, Sony A7 (Kolari v2) @ ISO 500, Marumi DHG Achromat +3 Close-up Lens
Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM @ f/2.0, 1/40s, Sony A7 (Kolari v2) @ ISO 100
Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM @ f/2.0, 1/125s, Sony A7 (Kolari v2) @ ISO 400, Marumi DHG Achromat +3 Close-up Lens
Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM @ f/2.8, 1/50s, Sony A7 (Kolari v2) @ ISO 125
People say it's no good for landscapes - at f/5.6 it's pretty good (when viewing 1:1 all individual leaves can be seen) except last 200-300pixels in corners
Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar T* 1.5/50 ZM @ f/5.6, 1/50s, Sony A7 (Kolari v2) @ ISO 640
Samuli
EDIT: don't try to use it with standard A7 cameras, the sensor cover glass is way too thick and 1/3 of image is just blur.
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