Nice lens.From walkabout the other day at Theo Wirth Park. Heard it calling and found it. You can figure out what it is, my 5-year-old grandniece aced the I.D. (she's a pretty smart little girl).
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Nice lens.From walkabout the other day at Theo Wirth Park. Heard it calling and found it. You can figure out what it is, my 5-year-old grandniece aced the I.D. (she's a pretty smart little girl).
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nice.Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila, last month north of Play del Carmen in Mexico.
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Nice Bokeh, what's the aperture on the lens you used?From walkabout this afternoon. Based on the pose I think this male Pileated Woodpecker thinks of himself as pretty handsome.
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Nice Bokeh, what's the aperture on the lens you used?
This is a good one!! Like the approach you took to editing it. The light on it looks awesome!Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus in Mexico last month. Same tree as the Cinnamon Hummingbird posted the other day. That tree was sort of a honey hole for birds.
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I imagine the high ISO emulated a wider aperture. Something to play with.Not entirely by design, 5:00 p.m. and dark clouds rolling in. 1/1000 sec f/6.3 500mm ISO 1600
Lens goes to f/5.6. Even with VR I don't like to hand hold at less than 1/800 sec when out at 500mm. Lens is 200-500mm.
Have a color version and a B&W version! Also, if people have Instagram throw your handle on here as I’d like to follow your work!
Ahh, so you don't have instagram yet? I really like that photo above. If I had more time I'd like to get into photographing animals. It'd be nice to get a 200-500mm lens but haven't gotten around to it. My range is 14-200, which 5 lenses can be heavy in a backpack. The blur and bokeh those lenses create are magnificent.Been thinking about that. Have enough, mostly birds and some fall scenes, to post without being embarrassed. Got an inactive Flicker I should probably revive.
Ahh, so you don't have instagram yet? I really like that photo above. If I had more time I'd like to get into photographing animals. It'd be nice to get a 200-500mm lens but haven't gotten around to it. My range is 14-200, which 5 lenses can be heavy in a backpack. The blur and bokeh those lenses create are magnificent.
yeah, I completely understand. Everyone has to start somewhere and the intimidation part of posting waiting for critiques can be a little tough. I'm in several landscape groups on FB and so far people are pretty nice when it comes to that. I guess I always expect the worst, but I'm my own worst critic.Ha, only just added Twitter because it got harder to fully open linked tweets so this old dude hasn't been on Instagram. So far just a lurker on Twitter cause I don't have a cool handle and not sure about using real ID. Mostly share my pics with friends on FB and on a few local FB pages, one a community group for anything I take within the city they peeps might like and the other is a MN bird photo group. The bird photo group is both inspiring and intimidating.
Upgraded gear a couple of years ago when I just had a Nikon with a kit lens 80-200mm. Stumbled upon a great pic of a pigmy owl in Mexico and thought I needed to upgrade since retired and have time to invest. Currently most bird walkabouts are Nikon D7500 with Nikon 200-500mm, so decent intermediate gear. For what I'm doing even the pro level bodies seemed beyond what I could justify. Sort of in the old camp I guess but I know things are moving more to mirrorless. Speculation was the "out of stock" when shopping for the 200-500 was that production was shifting to mirrorless.