You think birds-in-flight are hard, try bees-in-flight! The D500 (& the photog) were up to the task today D500 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 300mm f/5.6 1/5000 ISO 800
A friend is dusting off old large format cameras and shooting black and white; inspired me to look at some of my images differently. Big, black steam locomotives lend themselves to such treatment:
D500 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 200mm f/7.1 1/400 ISO 450 Purposefully used a slower shutter & VR to blur the wings and show motion (kinda like @bland s dragster
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D800 | Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm w/1.5 crop f/3.2 | 1/800 | ISO 200
|SB-800, Amaran Halo LED Ring light | MB-D16 grip| Gitzo GT3541 + RRS BH-55LR, Gitzo GM2942 + Sirui L-10 | RRS gear | Lowepro, ThinkTank, & Hoodman gear | BosStrap | Vello Freewave Plus wireless Remote, Leica Lens Cleaning Cloth |
D500 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 300mm f/5.6 1/5000 ISO 800
|SB-800, Amaran Halo LED Ring light | MB-D16 grip| Gitzo GT3541 + RRS BH-55LR, Gitzo GM2942 + Sirui L-10 | RRS gear | Lowepro, ThinkTank, & Hoodman gear | BosStrap | Vello Freewave Plus wireless Remote, Leica Lens Cleaning Cloth |
Sony A7RII Sony FE 24 - 70 f/2.8 GM
Have tried focus stacking once before, hand held, last time it didn't work so well, but this time I think it looks ok.
15 images, took it's toll on my computer for photoshop to do it's magic, and my HP workstation is quite new
D810 - Nikon 105mm f/2.8 @ f/22.0 ISO 640
Click on image for full size @ 72 DPI
D810 70-200 @200mm f/2.8 AFS vr II 1/4000, f/4 ISO 400
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Man, how I wish to be a child his age again. Not a worry in the world!
|SB-800, Amaran Halo LED Ring light | MB-D16 grip| Gitzo GT3541 + RRS BH-55LR, Gitzo GM2942 + Sirui L-10 | RRS gear | Lowepro, ThinkTank, & Hoodman gear | BosStrap | Vello Freewave Plus wireless Remote, Leica Lens Cleaning Cloth |
D4 200 f/2 1/320 ISO 100 @ f/3.5
|SB-800, Amaran Halo LED Ring light | MB-D16 grip| Gitzo GT3541 + RRS BH-55LR, Gitzo GM2942 + Sirui L-10 | RRS gear | Lowepro, ThinkTank, & Hoodman gear | BosStrap | Vello Freewave Plus wireless Remote, Leica Lens Cleaning Cloth |
D500 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 200mm f/7.1 1/400 ISO 450
Purposefully used a slower shutter & VR to blur the wings and show motion (kinda like @bland s dragster
|SB-800, Amaran Halo LED Ring light | MB-D16 grip| Gitzo GT3541 + RRS BH-55LR, Gitzo GM2942 + Sirui L-10 | RRS gear | Lowepro, ThinkTank, & Hoodman gear | BosStrap | Vello Freewave Plus wireless Remote, Leica Lens Cleaning Cloth |