Yeah I know, it just darkens the sky sometimes in a similar manner
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Some more from last Saturday’s wetland wander (all 600mm APS-C)
Rainbow Lorrikeet:
Monarch Butterfly:
Intermediate Egret:
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.Wow, that’s a challenging pan with “shutter drag.” I like it.
(I’ve been using that technique with the grandkids on bicycles. But not at 500 mm!!!)
Keep the photos coming!
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182mm on APS-C + a heavy crop (the uploaded image is almost a 100% crop…). I recently moved to a new flat with further view from the balcony and suddenly have a desire for longer lenses :D.
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Two from a 135mm f/2.8 Pentacon preset lens in M42 mount. These were shot wide open - the first with a 10mm extension tube, the second with a 30mm tube.
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This would make a great album cover 
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That must have been challenging to capture! We get bats around here but they fly so quickly and I’m not sure I have a lens fast enough.
I have been fantasizing about some night vision binoculars recently because we have some cool owls and bats where I live.
Bats don’t care much about flash. So, I used a “weak” flash plus open aperture. Was my first try, if this is possible. I hope to get a “good” shot one day.
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I cannot come close to your magnificent birds, but I did visit a local lake recently. One of the acceptable ones:
Nikon D7000, 70-300 @ 300 mm.
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Hmm, looking at it here, it looks ‘fake’. I probably overprocessed the bird (left the background mostly unmodified). The captured image wasn’t sharp, to start with.
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Storks are so difficult, I have a few images that look more or less like this, it’s hard to escape the “look”. Sunlight just causes a ton of glare reflecting off their white feathers and the dynamic range of their body is ruthless
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Not my usual kind of photography, but I couldn’t resist taking a shot of the moon from my deck with the Tamron 50-300mm.
Thanks to the 61MP sensor, I could crop in a ridiculous amount and achieve this with minimal processing:
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I do not know what to make out of the image itself but it is very, very beautiful, soo smooth.
Thank you. The 200/3.5 Takumar is a very interesting and capable lens, soft and sharp at the same time. It’s still a pleasure to operate even after all those years.
That’s a pretty good description of my pictures.
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