My first attempt to capture swallows in flight. Extemely difficult to keep them in frame. These fast and erratic brids are a real challenge. Sadly, I still haven't found a place where they abound. I simply sight a few ones in the beach from time to time. They usually fly high in the sky, but it's unusual seeing them at eye level. So for me, this photo (and a few more ones) are the the best I could had.
The A1 with bare 200-600 is fine acquiring focus and tracking. With the 1.4TC it was not so responsive. I felt it slower but the added extra pixels on the bird are a real welcome. This one was taken with the teleconverter at 791 mm, f9, 1/6400, ISO 2000. Postprocessed with DXO DeepPrime. Topaz was not fine here, nor On1 Nonoise AI.
All of you showing great dart flight swallows photographs have really good skills and all my admiration. Nobody should say that the A1 is doing the work itself until they try by themselves to capture this kind of extremely challenging images. The A1 helps, no doubt, but the photographer skills is mainly what makes possible the capture. I'll keep trying it and also delighting myself with the wonderful images posted by the experienced contributors to this thread. https://i.imgur.com/hZVoasu.jpg
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 12:12 PM.
Looking at a portion of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore often called the "Duomo" due to its red dome. A portion of the Cathedral is under renovation as can be seen.
Hand Held, relying on Camera IBIS, A1 and Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, FE mount; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/200 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.09 Stops.
March 22, 2022
At the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the "Duomo" ) Firenze (Florence), Italy.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 4:52 PM.
Looking at a "carpet" of Muscari "Bluebells" in a field of Muscari "Bluebells". You can follow one of the paths separating the different patches of plants and flowers to try to keep viewers from stepping on them.
Tripod mounted A1 and Voigtlander 110mm f2.5 Macro Apo-Lanthar, FE mount; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f11, 1/50 second.
Exposure Corrected -0.09 Stops.
April 12, 2022
At Lock Ridge Park (the site of an old Iron Furnace works), Alburtis, PA.
Thank you very much Leon! I must admit my panning skill sucks big time. I almost gave up shooting prop. planes. For this particular set maybe 1 out of 40-50 has enough "sharpness" to be salvageable in post editing. Thank God for the A1's frame rate that increases the odd of getting at least a few decent ones.
Shooting jets is much easier. These are shots of the USAF F-35A demo and the US Navy F-35C demo on Friday afternoon right after a storm, the humidity was high, hence the crazy vapes. Never saw so much vapes in all the airshows I have been to. This was the warmup on Friday, the real show on Saturday was cancelled after the jet truck's accident on the runway.
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you very much Leon! I must admit my panning skill sucks big time. I almost gave up shooting prop. planes. For this particular set maybe 1 out of 40-50 has enough "sharpness" to be salvageable in post editing. Thank God for the A1's frame rate that increases the odd of getting at least a few decent ones.
Shooting jets is much easier. These are shot of the USAF F-35A demo and the US Navy F-35C demo on Friday afternoon right after a storm, the humidity was high, hence the crazy vapes. Never saw so much vapes in all the airshows I have been to. This was the warmup on Friday, the real show on Saturday was cancelled after the jet truck's accident on the runway.
