Lovely and impressive images, Alex! I would put those images in the Nature and Wildlife forum this weekend, if I were you,
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This poor guy got drenched after rain; it rains a lot in Ecuador, FYI! Somehow the colors just pop here and I had to move the slider down a notch or two. The barbet still looks oversaturated but…oh, well. Maybe because it was fairly close and the image was barely cropped.
These are quite incredible. Our Indigo Buntings flit about so quickly and randomly I've never been able to get anything but the perched bird. This is a tour de force!
AGeoJO wrote:
Lovely and impressive images, Alex! I would put those images in the Nature and Wildlife forum this weekend, if I were you,
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This poor guy got drenched after rain; it rains a lot in Ecuador, FYI! Somehow the colors just pop here and I had to move the slider down a notch or two. The barbet still looks oversaturated but…oh, well. Maybe because it was fairly close and the image was barely cropped.
Josh, great shot. That Barbet set you put up on N&W was really special
I've put some images over on N&W in the past that I thought were worthy of win or two but they haven't gotten much attention so I've been reluctant to post until I have something more "universally likeable" if that's a thing
photonoclast wrote:
These are quite incredible. Our Indigo Buntings flit about so quickly and randomly I've never been able to get anything but the perched bird. This is a tour de force!
Thank you and glad you enjoyed them. As you said, they are not easy in flight. They are random and on this day in early May I was fortunate that two males were fighting over an area and had 5-6 flights where I could try to get something. I have some at 840mm that are even better and I will probably print those at some point. But at 840mm I had a ton of misses too so I went with 600mm to increase my odds a little. I like these guys and I miss them once they leave in Sept
Does anyone here use the $400 Sony drop-in CPL? I am thinking of getting one to use fr airshows to reduce the reflection. Just wondering if anyone has experience with this $400 master piece.
Douglas L wrote:
Does anyone here use the $400 Sony drop-in CPL? I am thinking of getting one to use fr airshows to reduce the reflection. Just wondering if anyone has experience with this $400 master piece.
During my C days back then, I had a drop-in polarizer but I ended up not using it, except for some test shots. Based on that experience, I decided not to do it again here. I believe PL filter won’t do much, if any for reflections off metal surfaces. It works fine for glass surfaces though. I am not sure how that works for your intended usage, Doug, especially since it is a fast action pace that you are dealing with, at least most of the time, since you cannot evaluate the effect in the viewfinder before hand. Just my 2 cents…
AGeoJO wrote:
During my C days back then, I had a drop-in polarizer but I ended up not using it, except for some test shots. Based on that experience, I decided not to do it again here. I believe PL filter won’t do much, if any for reflections off metal surfaces. It works fine for glass surfaces though. I am not sure how that works for your intended usage, Doug, especially since it is a fast action pace that you are dealing with, at least most of the time, since you cannot evaluate the effect in the viewfinder before hand. Just my 2 cents… ...Show more →
Thanks for chiming in, Joshua! I will use a CPL on the 200-600 first to see how it goes before I spend $400 for the drop-in CPL for the 600 GM. I do have a 95mm Breakthrough CPL for the 200-600. Like you said, there is no time to make any adjustment to the polarizing effect when the planes are flying around. Basically, I will set it and forget it, the polarizing effect only comes in when the planes are at certain angles, not all the time. I will do some experiment this Friday.
Douglas L wrote:
Does anyone here use the $400 Sony drop-in CPL? I am thinking of getting one to use fr airshows to reduce the reflection. Just wondering if anyone has experience with this $400 master piece.
Douglas - I have it and used it at Oakley. Not sure how much of a difference it made because I think you have to really dial it in to get the desired effect. I thought about taking it down last week when I was doing shorebirds to see if it cut down on water glare but I just left it behind
149113 wrote:
Douglas - I have it and used it at Oakley. Not sure how much of a difference it made because I think you have to really dial it in to get the desired effect. I thought about taking it down last week when I was doing shorebirds to see if it cut down on water glare but I just left it behind
The only occasion I think I will use a CPL in the 600 GM is at airshows to cut down the glare like in this picture. The more I think of it, the more I believe it's probably not worth the hassle, because the moments the planes hit the right angle for the CPL to have material effect on their surface are infrequent.
Douglas L wrote:
The only occasion I think I will use a CPL in the 600 GM is at airshows to cut down the glare like in this picture. The more I think of it, the more I believe it's probably not worth the hassle, because the moments the planes hit the right angle for the CPL to have material effect on their surface are infrequent.
Thanks Alex!
Doug, those are metallic surfaces… I seriously doubt that using PL filter would make that much of a difference, if any at all in that case or similar cases. You could tame it down or reduce the bright hot spots in PP. There are different ways of doing that and you can view various tutorials on Youtube for that.
AGeoJO wrote:
Doug, those are metallic surfaces… I seriously doubt that using PL filter would make that much of a difference, if any at all in that case or similar cases. You could tame it down or reduce the bright hot spots in PP. There are different ways of doing that and you can view various tutorials on Youtube for that.
