Fantastic! Capturing fast, low flying, small Barn Swallows in flight is very ambitious. Great shots. One day, I’ll get them. Right now they just flyby and mock me. It’s a love-hate relationship. :-)
This is my favourite type of image and f5.6 worked well here -- just enough background to compliment/frame the bird in their environment but not too much as to be distracting/overpowering. It just needed a little touchup of gaussian blur to separate the bird from BG. I shot this with the Z7...the 500PF and little Z is a sweet combo if you can get your head around the AF nuances.
I hope that you are not sick of the bears yet...
It has been a long haul, but I am almost done with the first half days cut of crap from decent. With 25 hours of bear photography, I am becoming more selective... dividing my work into natural history vs more artistic impressions.
I used a 70-200 w/ my D500 for the entire trip and left the 500PF on my Z6. The choice was mostly based on the crop factor and the reality that 500mm on an FX was more than enough focal length.
The photo presented is in the category of natural history. At this point, I have finally begun to understand how the Z6 and LR Classic interact. At first I was struggling with over-saturated, contrasty and somewhat soft images. This was shocking because the 500PF has been crazy sharp on the D500. Well is seems that the Z6 transfers the picture profiles (typically a jpg thing) on to the raw files... this was not what I was experiencing. While I observed the heavy saturated pictures in the past, I was not comparing these to other cameras shot at the same time.
Anyway, here's a mom and cub checking out some action at a distance from our position.
cheers,
bruce
OwlsEyes wrote:
I hope that you are not sick of the bears yet...
It has been a long haul, but I am almost done with the first half days cut of crap from decent. With 25 hours of bear photography, I am becoming more selective... dividing my work into natural history vs more artistic impressions.
I used a 70-200 w/ my D500 for the entire trip and left the 500PF on my Z6. The choice was mostly based on the crop factor and the reality that 500mm on an FX was more than enough focal length.
The photo presented is in the category of natural history. At this point, I have finally begun to understand how the Z6 and LR Classic interact. At first I was struggling with over-saturated, contrasty and somewhat soft images. This was shocking because the 500PF has been crazy sharp on the D500. Well is seems that the Z6 transfers the picture profiles (typically a jpg thing) on to the raw files... this was not what I was experiencing. While I observed the heavy saturated pictures in the past, I was not comparing these to other cameras shot at the same time.
Anyway, here's a mom and cub checking out some action at a distance from our position.
cheers,
bruce
Nothing special here. The first photo is the very first image I made with my 500PF
Recd. from Allen's camera, 5 month wait. I cancelled, but was on the B-H list for near 9 months.
Geoff and some others know I feed several hawks daily. This summer they're not taking the free banquet as frequently; instead we've had an explosion of rabbits. I can walk down the road and count 10 rabbits in a 5 minutes time. The better-half saw a distant hawk flying with a small rabbit.
So our hawks had 3 fledges this year. Did they know a rabbit explosion was to happen? Or did they wait and see all the rabbits and then decide for more babies? Usually they have 1 or 2, but even now all three fledges are still here.
She got a shot of two on a tree side by side....color me jealous....but she did tell me which tree before heading off to work. So very early this morning after leaving the hospital I went looking
Nikon D850
500.0 mm f/5.6
ƒ/5.6 500.0 mm 1/2000 6400
