A few shooting buddies and I went to the location where Cedar Waxwings have frequented for Toyon berries for a little over a week. But it was too windy. They barely showed up and the shooting conditions were horrible. And I didn't bother but fortunately somebody spotted an osprey perching on a power pole. Everybody figured, better that than nothing... And here is the osprey then. The first image was the entire frame and the second was a crop...
The shooting conditions were getting tougher but the birds were still cooperating and the auto-ISO setting on my camera resulted in IS06400-12800 but the show did go on. I ran Topaz Denoise on the file here... and the result is really not bad.
From this morning.... I took over 1,000 images of the struggle and what a struggle it was for both of them. It was a matter of life of death for the crayfish. I still have to go through the images and will edit a few of them but this is the first one with minor edit.
AGeoJO wrote:
C’mon guys, let’s keep this thread alive!
OK Joshua, if you insist
I LOVE this lens. Day before yesterday we walked over 3 miles at Viera Wetlands (just south of Cocoa Beach). With a sling it is almost a no-brainer (I should say "no-strainer"), even at 71!
Handheld with the A7Riv it works great for stationary birds and many BIF shots. I have rarely put it on my tripod.
Of course, sometimes you do have to stop for a quick bite:
This brings up something I've been curious about, maybe wrong place but: If you guys are walking with them, how do you carry this lens? cross body strap (r-strap...etc)? Cotton carrier? monopod over the shoulder? kimknapp wrote:
OK Joshua, if you insist
I LOVE this lens. Day before yesterday we walked over 3 miles at Viera Wetlands (just south of Cocoa Beach). With a sling it is almost a no-brainer (I should say "no-strainer"), even at 71!
Handheld with the A7Riv it works great for stationary birds and many BIF shots. I have rarely put it on my tripod.
Of course, sometimes you do have to stop for a quick bite:
buffalowolff wrote:
This brings up something I've been curious about, maybe wrong place but: If you guys are walking with them, how do you carry this lens? cross body strap (r-strap...etc)? Cotton carrier? monopod over the shoulder?
It depends entirely on where one is walking. The terrain and length of walk dictate how a larger lens is carried. For me so far, it's either on a tripod (with Wimberley gimbal) including a shoulder pad velro'd to tripod, or just hand-held.
