asiostygius wrote:
Lovely shots Dean, liked particularly the first and last. Were they wide open?
Thanks, Jose. The last two were wide open and the first at f/3.2. It's a super sharp lens wide open.
You would like this place ... not the wild like you like to photograph in, but a huge net covered aviary with 100 different species (800 birds). The aviary is 3 square Km's big. Obviously far less skill is involved here than what you do ... your images are amazing.
Tim Ashton wrote:
As usual Rey, your work just takes my breath away
Last weekend, the Vietnamese community in Sydney celebrated the "Moon Festival" so I hopped on the train to have a look.
After the previous weekend where we were subjected to a rather unfortunate performance by some Islamic youth protesting over that idiot you tube clip it was refreshing and fun to see how well multiculturism can work
It was a day of families, food, fun and food
Hi thanks Tim! It's great to see such cheerfull faces on your photos within that multicultural gathering... it's a great photo ops. Cheers!
One from today after doing some tests on the effects of removing the internal 39mm UV/Haze (L37c) filter inside the 300mm f/4 AF ED IF. Tests were done at infinity and basing from the results, I would insist using the darn internal filter.
There is image degradation relating to depth of field - without the filter, the lens doesn't behave as expected at any aperture or DOF. Without the filter, even tho the camera AF has focused on infinity, it's stilll out of focus, whatever aperture I used. My conclusion is, without the filter, the lens can't focus on infinity, is less sharper and has less DOF (even at higher DOF). That's why Nikon says to always use this darn tiny filter. I would like to post the results but it will be a long write up, lol.
The image below was shot after the tests. As usual, no photoshopping, no cropping, just used NX2.3.1. Cheers.
Thanks Willy. The funny thing about the B&W is that it was taken at the end of the session, when the kids were spent and we thought it was all over. It was literally my last shot.
Those are fabulous shots, John. I downloaded your .nef file that you posted, and I couldn't come up with a better way to process it. Just the LR or PS shadow lift seems the most natural. I tried the Camera Raw noise reduction, but didn't get much improvement in the slight colour blotching. Perhaps one of the stand alone noise reduction processes could do better? I'm not sure.
I also tried additional layers to lighten the shadows but to no avail. Its a very difficult image and I absolutely love the ones with just the plane silhouette again the moon. Those are awesome. A closer crop would be amazing.
Cheers!
I would like to post the results but it will be a long write up, lol. 
