Hi Jack.
I'm here to try to learn, thought my problem was my camera, then people post beautiful pictures using he 7D so now I think it might be my lens, Sigma 150-500, anyone got any really good pics from one of these to prove it is me not the gear! :
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Ferris, how did you even get the 2400mm effective lens to stop quivering as your heart beat while you tried to frame it, (I'm guessing it's not hand held) come to that how did you know where to point it in the first place, must have been a fair way away almost out of sight? Beautiful pic none the less. It would seem the 7D is capable of great pictures in the right hands, I'm not for one moment suggesting the camera made the shot, if that was the case I'd have pics like that too!
Like Mackguyver said lots of great pics from everyone else too.
Cheers Graham.
Graham,
As I recall, I was using a tripod with that configuration. I'm sure that many people that know more about photography than I do would state that the Sigma 50-500mm is not the world's sharpest or fastest lens, but I find its wide and deep range to be very useful, and I appreciate its image stabilization, which allows me to handhold it. I can JUST handhold it with a 2x teleconverter attached, and can ALMOST handhold it with both a 2x and a 1.4x attached.
So, in that situation with the Red-tailed Hawk, I was using a tripod to help me stabilize things, and taking plenty of photos. The juvenile was good enough to be sitting rather peacefully on a relatively close perch for an extended period of time. For additional looks at this Hawk, use the following link, and keep clicking on the left arrow to go through them all. http://www.flickr.com/photos/37648871@N06/7477026706/#in/photostream/
I'm here to try to learn, thought my problem was my camera, then people post beautiful pictures using he 7D so now I think it might be my lens, Sigma 150-500, anyone got any really good pics from one of these to prove it is me not the gear! :
;DFerris, how did you even get the 2400mm effective lens to stop quivering as your heart beat while you tried to frame it, (I'm guessing it's not hand held) come to that how did you know where to point it in the first place, must have been a fair way away almost out of sight? Beautiful pic none the less. It would seem the 7D is capable of great pictures in the right hands, I'm not for one moment suggesting the camera made the shot, if that was the case I'd have pics like that too!
Like Mackguyver said lots of great pics from everyone else too.
Cheers Graham.
Graham,
As I recall, I was using a tripod with that configuration. I'm sure that many people that know more about photography than I do would state that the Sigma 50-500mm is not the world's sharpest or fastest lens, but I find its wide and deep range to be very useful, and I appreciate its image stabilization, which allows me to handhold it. I can JUST handhold it with a 2x teleconverter attached, and can ALMOST handhold it with both a 2x and a 1.4x attached.
So, in that situation with the Red-tailed Hawk, I was using a tripod to help me stabilize things, and taking plenty of photos. The juvenile was good enough to be sitting rather peacefully on a relatively close perch for an extended period of time. For additional looks at this Hawk, use the following link, and keep clicking on the left arrow to go through them all. http://www.flickr.com/photos/37648871@N06/7477026706/#in/photostream/
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