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Absolutely outstanding.1Dx 85f/1.2 L II, Shot @ f/7.1 & 1/160th ISO1600
The Old Chap is 91
Another great B&W. It's always a pleasure to look at your pictures.
Fantastic imagery from all over the world... It never ceases to blow me away. I often have to force myself not to think about all the places I'll never see except in someone else's images from somewhere around the globe... Thanks everyone for sharing your world with us!+1,000,000,000.......
^^^Same here. The #2 and the last one with the kid. Well done!Same here. The one with the kid has a magical quality about it for me.
The adult and baby Grebes have been putting on a great show for the last week. They have so much character and the adults are exceeding patient with the young ones they are trying to feed.Excellent! I love the last one and the second one.
I also like taking photographs of birds in flight, especially take offs.
Shot details:
Grebe 3806, 1/2000, 840 mm, ISO 1,600
Grebe 6459, 1/3200, 840 mm, ISO 4,000
Wood Duck 9435, 1/6400, 280 mm, ISO 1,600
Wood Duck 0201, 1/1600, 280 mm, ISO 1,250
Wow! lovely capture! I never thought there would be water snakes in Switzerland!
I'd say you are pretty good! I've never been able to get such a nice dragonfly photo. Welcome to CR
Edit- If you don't mind, what equipment and settings did you use to shoot the dragonfly? I rarely see them and they buzz by very fast and never seem to hold still.
Here in switzerland we have a lot of ponds with nice paths made of wood so you can visit them. There you will find hundreds of dragonflies and also a lot of water snakes, birds and other various small insects.
If you wait near the water for a few minutes dragonflies will think that you are just a newly emerged tree and start ignoring you or even land on you.
Now you have to learn their flight path, usually they fly the same path all the time. So prefocus and wait till you have a chance to shoot.
I have a 60D and a 150 mm Sigma Macro. So I used rapid fire and tried to manually focus on the dragonfly. Perhaps you can use auto focus if you have a better camera.
My settings were: 1/125, f/9, no flash.
This is also example of a butterfly flying the same path for 20 minutes try to impress a mate. You would need a lot of luck to get such a shot. But if they do not alter their flight path at all its pretty easy to even focus in advance.
mpetersheim, thanks. I will check them out.Wow! Such great pics. The in camera HDR is terrible! I must get one of the HDR plugins. Suggestions please
I think the two most popular ones are Photomatix and Nik Software's HDR Efex Pro. Photomatix is cheaper (now that all Nik plugins are bundled together), probably more powerful and with a steeper learning curve. HDR Efex Pro costs more because all the Nik plugins are bundled together since Google bought Nik, and I think it's a little easier to learn but doesn't give you the level of control that Photomatix does. If others disagree, please correct me; it's been awhile since I used Photomatix.
The upside of buying the Nik bundle is that you get five other plugins, too; Silver Efex Pro, Viveza and Color Efex Pro were all particularly useful additions for me.
Really, though, I don't think you can go wrong with either option for HDR processing.
There you go! The experiment is repeatable!Damp dark day here today, the Squirrel was in focus till he jumped. AF just didn't follow him though.
Still thought I'd post it anyway. I hope it isn't my best animal shot!
Cheers Brian
Historic shot! You have posted the second photo (the first one was taken by fohtohz) which illustrates the Nobel prize worthy theory of localized gravity malfunction recently put forth by rpt (in the "show your bird portraits" post thread).
Lovely pic. Another B&W candidateFor you Edward.
It's cheetah day!
Wow sanj ! Have you been practising ?!
Now that picture doesn't need a sky. Really good.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah..................
Surely there has to be some computation of angles internally to identify the focusing plane in order to eliminate the back-focus.
Why does there have to be? The point is, with a fast lens shot wide open, don't focus/recompose. Use an outer focus point so you don't have to move the camera. With narrow apertures and/or distant subjects, the deeper DoF masks the backfocus, so focus/recompose is ok.
Sorry, incorrect inference. There's no 'computation of angles' on a Canon camera. Using an outer AF point eliminates backfocus if it enables you to focus on your subject without recomposing, reduces backfocus if it means you don't move the camera as much to get the composition you want.See, the Hasselblad thing makes sense to me. Surely there has to be some computation of angles internally to identify the focusing plane in order to eliminate the back-focus.
I state 'Canon camera' because some Hasselblad bodies use a gyro sensor to detect camera rotation during recomposition, and adjust focus to compensate.
http://www.visual-vacations.com/Photography/focus-recompose_sucks.htm
Good lord! Gravity seems to be malfunctioning at that spot.
Lovely picture
LOL
Maybe there is a little bird trampoline hidden just behind the rail. Really cool shot!I make this Nobel prize worthy discovery and you dismiss it of as a trick?
Sorry rpt...I didn't realize the gravity of the situation
