amci4 wrote:
Were the 35-150 shots the full body shots? Really considering this lens and looking for good examples.
the full body shots were with the 200 f2, the locker room studio shots were with the 35-150.
I got rid of the Nikon 70-200 2.8 S and replaced it with the 35-150 and have not regretted it. Great lens, my
favorite all around lens.
DanielJStein wrote:
Awesome shots! This challenge is right around the corner from me as a matter of fact. I was going to compete, but I am still recovering from an injury so no MTB races from me for a bit.
Thanks...Maybe next year. I am sure I am shooting the same race again next year... Another race I shoot is the Escape the Jungle in the Jungle Habitat trail. Is part of the H2H race series.
Deception Island, taken the other day, just before sunset, with a Z8, the 24-120 f/4 S lens, and a 10 stop Kolari neutral density filter. Image was taken at f/10, for 60 seconds, at ISO 64 and 66mm focal length.
This bald-faced hornet's nest was almost basketball size. We were getting it removed due to its close proximity to adults, children, and pets (both ours and our neighbors). The gentleman that took the nest freezes the hornets and sends the females to a lab to extract their venom for the purpose of creating anti-venom for people that are highly allergic to hornet stings. After some of the branches were trimmed a bit, I took the opportunity to take some images of the nest (from a good distance). These images were taken with the Z9 camera, the 400mm f/4.5 S lens, and the 1.4x teleconverter. In the third image below, you can possibly make out the red eye of a fly that the hornet is carrying back to its nest.
Just received my 600 f.63 PF! I went to the local National Park late on this wintery afternoon to give it a whirl on some birds. Not many about but I did manage to get a Kookaburra and a Eastern Yellow Robin. Quite dimly lit as you can see by the highish ISO but a run though with Topaz and they tidied up nicely. I used slow shutter speeds to keep the ISO as low as possible.
Early days yet, but so far it looks the goods in that it seems to be very much like the 500 PF except the obvious 100mm longer reach and 1/3rd of a stop slower. Image quality seems to be excellent as it was with the 500 PF, super sharp but maybe a touch more contrasty and the bokeh seems nicer.
1) Kookaburra - no crop resized to 2850 pixels wide for web view
In 2014 I converted a section of lawn into a wildflower garden, It's nice having wildflowers just outside my door. And I have had Monarch's reproducing here. This year (2024) the flowers just started popping this week (mid-July)....47th north Lat). And the pollinators soon arrived seeking nectar.
The last image is of a Monarch that appeared on just one day. Apparently it was near its last days. Sadly, they only live a few weeks, except for the last generation. See link
Here is the 600 PF with the Z1.4x TC. I thought I would try it out on my new little friend, a Scarlet Robin that I used my 800 PF on last week. This little guy, just a bit larger than my thumb, would not let me get closer than about 6.5mts and even at 800mm and now 840mm I had to crop substantially to get these.
I must say that the results are quite amazing considering the use of the TC on a slowish less and larger crops. AF was no issue either.
These are cropped from the full 8255 pixel width to about 4100 pixel width and then resized to 2850 pixels for web view.
Z8 + Z 600 pf + Z 1.4x TC, 1/320s f/9.0 at 840.0mm iso320
Z8 + Z 600 pf + Z 1.4x TC, 1/200s f/9.0 at 840.0mm iso360
Z8 + Z 600 pf + Z 1.4x TC, 1/320s f/9.0 at 840.0mm iso1100
