When visiting museums, I often like to take close ups of various parts of large paintings. Not only can you see more details on the computer, but there are so many little scenes within paintings that could be paintings in and of themselves. This was a painting in the Louvre by Abraham Mignon painted around 1660 that had a lot going on. First image is the entire painting with little vignettes following. 35GM.
mudlake wrote:
When visiting museums, I often like to take close ups of various parts of large paintings. Not only can you see more details on the computer, but there are so many little scenes within paintings that could be paintings in and of themselves. This was a painting in the Louvre by Abraham Mignon painted around 1660 that had a lot going on. First image is the entire painting with little vignettes following. 35GM.
The first image was cropped to taste and the second image was cropped significantly - the websized JPG images took away quite a bit from the sharpness it is still hard to find any fault of this lens...
AGeoJO wrote:
The first image was cropped to taste and the second image was cropped significantly - the websized JPG images took away quite a bit from the sharpness it is still hard to find any fault of this lens...
AGeoJO wrote:
The first image was cropped to taste and the second image was cropped significantly - the websized JPG images took away quite a bit from the sharpness it is still hard to find any fault of this lens...
Agree, Joshua. Fantastic shots! I used my 400-800 occasionally for birds when it's bright enough. When it's not bright enough, I just don't use it. If the background is far enough from the subject, even F8 can make decent bokeh. But when the background isn't far enough from the subject, nothing beats the buttery smooth bokeh a 600mm F4 makes. It's really a matter of tradeoff/priority.
I am heading down to Florida next week for an airshow at sunset, I will use the 300 GM+1.4X TC or 2X TC. The 400-800 simply is not suitable for that kind of light while shooting as fast shutter speed. I am not a fan of ISO 20000.
This guy owned several GHs in Chiu, West Tibet. The Tibetans are, all of them, eccentrics. Very different to Buddhist Ladakhis, 200kms west from there.
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