Congrats on your new lens, Chris. I've never heard of a bad copy of a 500mm. It produces wonderful pics with amazing bokeh. No apparent loos of IQ with the 1.4X. But I'm sure you already new that. I would think you used a tripod with these pictures, so tomorrow try shooting had-held.
They are all nice pictures BTW: crisp and sharp. Thanks for sharing,
Socrate
Sunman wrote:
everyone is just buying the 500. Very nicely done series. how much cropping is done on these? especially the last one
The chick and the tit were the most cropped. The Titmouse image represents 35% of the image frame. I also resized the crop so that the longest dim was no longer than 1000 pixels for web posting. Thanks for your comments...
Normcar21 wrote:
The bokeh is typical 500 masterpiece, and these show the power of that dynamic in background. Your titmouse is exceptional, with both 500 classic blur and pose as well as sharpness. I would have spent some time sharpening the eye and bill area on the titmouse, but it certainly wouldn't have been too much. Lovely shots.
Thanks Norm. I guess I need to figure out how to do that selective sharpening stuff. I just use USM provided by the Capture One Pro raw tool. I have been using it to do all post processing...EV, Shadows/highlights, cropping, usm, ect and development to jpg for the web. I have only been using PS for the clone tool and noise ninja when I need to use it which it not oftenas of late, the better I get at exposure in the camera. I really need to sit down with Adobe and work through some layer's exercises. Thanks again for the nice comments...
