Looking at the Asphalt Pathway running through the Wooded Area.
Tripod mounted A7r Kolari Vision Thin Sensor modified V3 and Leica M WATE f4 lens set to 21mm.
ISO 100, f11, 0.5 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.49 Stops.
June 15, 2020
At Lock Ridge Park (the site of an old Iron Furnace works), Alburtis, PA.
I was there at the falcon site this morning and I only saw the dad. He called out to his chicks and his mate but nobody showed up. That’s it for me this season but I will be back next year in the early spring for another, I hope even better, falcon season....
Although these images are the last set I took but there will more falcon images that I took previously that I will post. Off the top of my head, I took in excess of 20,000 images between the two nests this season...
Betacamman wrote:
Had another good night for lightning
Nice capture of the lightening! I have never tried that before. I guess you need to be in the right place at the right time.
First shot was from yesterday morning, A7RIII+24-105, 2nd and 3rd were from this morning, A7RIV+Sigma 14-24, A7RIII+Sony 100-400. I was hoping for a nicer sunrise...
Why are you guys still posting pictures with inferior Sony gear? Sell all your inferior Sony gear and rush to pre-order the R5/R6. There is still time to jump on the hype train .
Fun aside, beautiful shots includings lots of nice macro shots on those last few pages again.
Joshua, the amount of detail in those falcon shots is unreal. Your and Bob's excellent shots with the long glass make me want to do some birding again, alas I have no time and both corona cases and the floods are on the rise again.
Beautiful series, Douglas. Those close-ups with the 135 GM are very impressive.
Chris_88 wrote:
Why are you guys still posting pictures with inferior Sony gear? Sell all your inferior Sony gear and rush to pre-order the R5/R6. There is still time to jump on the hype train .
Fun aside, beautiful shots includings lots of nice macro shots on those last few pages again.
Joshua, the amount of detail in those falcon shots is unreal. Your and Bob's excellent shots with the long glass make me want to do some birding again, alas I have no time and both corona cases and the floods are on the rise again.
Beautiful series, Douglas. Those close-ups with the 135 GM are very impressive.
Thank you very much, Chris! As I have mentioned to you, I have been more and more impressed with the G 200-600mm lens lately with its AF performance as well as image quality of the files on the A9 II. The GM 600 shines in the better or smoother bokeh. Had I used the GM for that sequence, I would have set the aperture at f/4, which would have generated a more limited DOF. Yes, the ISO would have been lower but the limited DOF would have resulted in a less sharp head/eye of the falcon since the focus was more on the body of that bird. It was tough to follow a fast flying falcon always on the head .
The introduction of the new Canon camera doesn't bother me at all. Actually, I am glad that they did as it would push Sony to innovate. BTW, their new 100-500mm lens doesn't have an internal zooming feature. So, the barrel would extend quite a bit during zooming. The aperture is slower at the long end and it is more expensive than the G 200-600mm . The combo would definitely slow down the exodus from Canon and that's good for them.
That's a lovely close-up image of the flowers using Loxia 85mm, Chris. I never owned that lens and I didn't know that it could focus that close. Well done!
AGeoJO wrote:
Thank you very much, Chris! As I have mentioned to you, I have been more and more impressed with the G 200-600mm lens lately with its AF performance as well as image quality of the files on the A9 II. The GM 600 shines in the better or smoother bokeh. Had I used the GM for that sequence, I would have set the aperture at f/4, which would have generated a more limited DOF. Yes, the ISO would have been lower but the limited DOF would have resulted in a less sharp head/eye of the falcon since the focus was more on the body of that bird. It was tough to follow a fast flying falcon always on the head .
The introduction of the new Canon camera doesn't bother me at all. Actually, I am glad that they did as it would push Sony to innovate. BTW, their new 100-500mm lens doesn't have an internal zooming feature. So, the barrel would extend quite a bit during zooming. The aperture is slower at the long end and it is more expensive than the G 200-600mm . The combo would definitely slow down the exodus from Canon and that's good for them.
That's a lovely close-up image of the flowers using Loxia 85mm, Chris. I never owned that lens and I didn't know that it could focus that close. Well done! ...Show more →
Many thanks, Joshua. At 0.14x the magnification of the Loxia 85 is nothing to write home about. I ended up cropping that shot a bit, hence it looks like the magnification was higher.
It sure looks like the 200-600 is a winner, at least if used on the a9 series. I've been happy with mine, even though it's seen only limited birding duty thus far.
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