mark fadely wrote:
Excellent hummingbird shot! Love this thread, I've followed it for a while - Petkal -fantastic Swallow shot on the previous page. Conrad, your shots of the Terns are looking very good as well.
Went back to my favorite Swallow area with my "fixed" MKIII and 400 5.6. Got this one the other day - I think it's my best Swallow shot to date.
mark fadely wrote:
Excellent hummingbird shot! Love this thread, I've followed it for a while - Petkal -fantastic Swallow shot on the previous page. Conrad, your shots of the Terns are looking very good as well.
Went back to my favorite Swallow area with my "fixed" MKIII and 400 5.6. Got this one the other day - I think it's my best Swallow shot to date.
Holy smokes!!! That's the best in flight swallow I've ever seen! Terrific shot Mark
PetKal wrote:
Hard to go into details here, Noelle, in an abstract way. I you were to spend several hours/days shooting swallows and swifts, that would help you more than anything I could opine on.
I'll just say that one should have a sufficient numbers of those birds available to photograph against a non contrasty background. Locating a bird nest/colony certainly helps a lot. It is absolutely non-productive to be shooting swallows when you see one only every 1/2 hr zooming full speed above a rippled water surface.
You'll spend hours there and go back home without a single keeper except for a possible very lucky one by accident....Show more →
Conrad Tan wrote:
Who are you calling a kiss ass Noelle?!? Those things make one dizzy! Try it you'll see! Hehe.... I bet you'll have swallow issues too!
noelle wrote:
hehe..... you know I was just being a wise ass
And no, I do not have swallow issues
I know I know.... Just woke up! Haha! Unpaid-due-to-this-economy-day-off-day for me! You know what that means! Its eaglet day! I'm off to the spot and see how the fledgling is doing. Talk to you later!
Conrad Tan wrote:
I know I know.... Just woke up! Haha! Unpaid-due-to-this-economy-day-off-day for me! You know what that means! Its eaglet day! I'm off to the spot and see how the fledgling is doing. Talk to you later!
Conrad Tan wrote:
Hehe... you're so funny! I'll send you a RAW image from today and you see what you can do with it. I tell you I can't seem to get that format right.
okay, let me know when you get back bcs I have to let you know where to send it because it is a large file.
PetKal wrote:
Mark, that's definitely one of the best ones I've seen.
noelle wrote:
Very nice Mark
Conrad Tan wrote:
Holy smokes!!! That's the best in flight swallow I've ever seen! Terrific shot Mark
Thanks guys - I've been photographing these guys for around 4 yrs just like PetKal. I agree it is much better to find the colony so that you can position yourself for some consistent flight action. It's hard enough with these little bullets flying right around you. The swallow in the shot I posted was probably only about 20ft away from me. Tracking the speedy little swallows at close range is very frustrating.
Conrad, the eagles are getting better, you got an Ivory Billed Woodpecker in flight, and the horse is well done.
I am also hoping to see more of the "ordinary" birds and animals from you where access is not a limiting factor to your photography. Eagles are fine, just that being quite distant, one can only get a limited mileage out of them photographically.
Tony Markle (Imagemaster) gets very interesting and very well crafted eagle shots with the 100-400, they are in the class of their own. However, the key IMO is that in addition to his skill, he has a superb access to the birds in some beautiful natural habitat plus he probably uses a blind too.
I for one would rather see a well done image of a chicken than a very large crop of an eagle in the empty sky. Here is my chicken for ya done with the 400 f/5.6.
PetKal wrote:
Conrad, the eagles are getting better, you got an Ivory Billed Woodpecker in flight, and the horse is well done.
I am also hoping to see more of the "ordinary" birds and animals from you where access is not a limiting factor to your photography. Eagles are fine, just that being quite distant, one can only get a limited mileage out of them photographically.
Tony Markle (Imagemaster) gets very interesting and very well crafted eagle shots with the 100-400, they are in the class of their own. However, the key IMO is that in addition to his skill, he has a superb access to the birds in some beautiful natural habitat plus he probably uses a blind too.
I am doubting between purchasing 100-400 or 400 5.6.
I don't have the time to read throug this whole (very big) thread and I am kindly asking you guys:
please give me in brief which is the best of the 2 ?
planning to use the lens to also shoot soccer besides birds et ...
I am doubting between purchasing 100-400 or 400 5.6.
I don't have the time to read throug this whole (very big) thread and I am kindly asking you guys:
please give me in brief which is the best of the 2 ?
planning to use the lens to also shoot soccer besides birds et ...
thanks in advance for a short but clear response.
Well michel, if you are planning picking your seat at the soccer game in such a way that you'll have a perfect vantage point every single time, then you can't beat the prime for the fast focus. Otherwise you'll find the focal length to be too long when the action gets close. At 10 meters away, all you will get are head and torso shots. Now if you go with the zoom, you'll have flexibility, but it focuses very slowly and a lot of your quickly moving subjects will be out of focus. And I mean a lot. Now BOTH lenses need really really good light to work the best. Another failing of not being f5.6. If the subcect is in shadow, forget it. If it is sunset or cloudy, leave it at home, they are not poor light performers. This is all my opinion of course! Good luck buddy!
Conrad Tan wrote:
Well michel, if you are planning picking your seat at the soccer game in such a way that you'll have a perfect vantage point every single time, then you can't beat the prime for the fast focus. Otherwise you'll find the focal length to be too long when the action gets close. At 10 meters away, all you will get are head and torso shots. Now if you go with the zoom, you'll have flexibility, but it focuses very slowly and a lot of your quickly moving subjects will be out of focus. And I mean a lot. Now BOTH lenses need really really good light to work the best. Another failing of not being f5.6. If the subcect is in shadow, forget it. If it is sunset or cloudy, leave it at home, they are not poor light performers. This is all my opinion of course! Good luck buddy! ...Show more →
thanks for the info.
using centre focus point and ai servo, i should be able to get the player in focus and track him with the 100-400 ?
Just woke up! Haha! Unpaid-due-to-this-economy-day-off-day for me! You know what that means! Its eaglet day! I'm off to the spot and see how the fledgling is doing. Talk to you later! 