1bwana1 wrote:
Another great set of Bee Eaters Lance. Are those wild or captive birds? Either way, super shots.
Thank you very much, Steve. Much appreciated!
These are wild and hence the first I have been able to get of them. None in any zoos that I know of and none that I knew of near Sydney, until now, although these are an hour out of Sydney and I almost had to bribe someone to let me know where they were! I don't know you could keep them in captivity could you? They would need bees/moths/wasps/dragon fly on the wing to keep them happy. These were a breeding pair and have a nest in a bank right near where I took these photos, their last branch before going to their nest where I presume they were feeding chicks on the nest.
We have a nice collection of them at our Zoo here in San Diego so they can be kept. Absolutely no chance to get wild shots here. The keepers throw the bugs in the air to feed them, and the shots I get look a lot the ones you are getting. The fact that yours are wild makes your shots even more impressive. Congratulations.
All of the Bee Eaters nest in burrows, usually on river banks in Africa. At least that makes them a little easier to find.
I hope to get some as good as yours on my next trip to Africa. No way to get them better.
1bwana1 wrote:
We have a nice collection of them at our Zoo here in San Diego so they can be kept. Absolutely no chance to get wild shots here. The keepers throw the bugs in the air to feed them, and the shots I get look a lot the ones you are getting. The fact that yours are wild makes your shots even more impressive. Congratulations.
All of the Bee Eaters nest in burrows, usually on river banks in Africa. At least that makes them a little easier to find.
I hope to get some as good as yours on my next trip to Africa. No way to get them better....Show more →
Interesting. It is impressive that they can keep them in a zoo.
The nest is indeed a burrow in a river bank, about 4 feet from the top and about 20 feet from the river, but I daren't go near it as I don't want to scare them off their nest.
ckcarr wrote:
My apologies if this is somewhere in here already. But, is there a Really Right Stuff plate released yet for this Z7 body? Either regular or L?
Thanks!
Yes, they shipped mine last week. Kirk also has one from a post I saw somewhere.
seeing these images just about makes me want to sell my Sony gear and go Nikon. I did play with the camera a while back, and it felt really good in hand.
Taken with the Nikon Z7 and 24-70mm f/4S using the focus shift feature. This is a composite with the sky replaced which was also taken with the Z7 and 24-70mm. I never do sky replacements but this photo was just so sharp and I liked the composition, but the sky was boring so I wanted to make it usable D:
jabong wrote:
Taken with the Nikon Z7 and 24-70mm f/4S using the focus shift feature. This is a composite with the sky replaced which was also taken with the Z7 and 24-70mm. I never do sky replacements but this photo was just so sharp and I liked the composition, but the sky was boring so I wanted to make it usable D:
Was this in AZ?
I went for the Z7 in part because we are planning a trip out to AZ and the Grand Canyon in early Spring. I think I've photographed that area with everything from a D90, Oly M43 to D750. Honestly the SW just begs for high resolution images.
glassartist wrote:
Was this in AZ?
I went for the Z7 in part because we are planning a trip out to AZ and the Grand Canyon in early Spring. I think I've photographed that area with everything from a D90, Oly M43 to D750. Honestly the SW just begs for high resolution images.
What program did you use to composite the images?
Yup, this is taken at the Lost Dutchman State Park just east of Phoenix, from where I live it's about a 35 minute drive.
I used Photoshop for both the compositing and the focus stacking. Though I'm probably going to start looking at other programs for focus stacking as it seems Photoshop has some issues blending some other photographs, but this one turned out well.
Had a chance to play around with the 35 f1.8 S today, and to be honest I didn't like it nearly as much as the 50 f1.8 S.
It seems to render very similarly to the F-mount 35 f1.8 G FX which isn't necessarily a horrible thing, but I found out of focus elements to be a little "nervous" looking with that lens.
OK. My first outing with this Z7. This is with the old 70-200mm VR1 with FTZ, if it's not perfectly sharp it's me, the wind was blowing just enough to keep putting tears in my eyes as I would focus (since I prefer manual focusing)...
Now I'm part of the club since for all the minor complaints I've read, none matter with landscape.
With 500/5.6PF, it certainly was not as easy to capture bird in flight with Z7 as D850 but it is not too bad.
Given a choice, I would stick with D850 for this. However, D850 was busy doing something else so Z7 served adequately for this.
One very convenient thing I just noticed is that the Z7 is able to record movies in .mov format. So taking casual videos with it and just exporting them quickly to my iphone is much easier than my A7R3, as the sony does not offer .mov format (so with Mp4 files I have to import them into media encoder and re-export them out as .mov in order to do any kind of casual editing to them).
Nice little things that I'm noticing after a little over a month of usage
sungphoto wrote:
One very convenient thing I just noticed is that the Z7 is able to record movies in .mov format. So taking casual videos with it and just exporting them quickly to my iphone is much easier than my A7R3, as the sony does not offer .mov format (so with Mp4 files I have to import them into media encoder and re-export them out as .mov in order to do any kind of casual editing to them).
Nice little things that I'm noticing after a little over a month of usage
Excellent! Editing videos is another league of its own I love the IQ and detail with FF video clips but the editing can be a real pain.
