Where ever you live you have photo opportunities that are local and subjects that one's enjoy photographing. We can't all live in areas of vastness out our front door. We either shoot or don't shoot and miss the opportunities to practice using our equipment. I tend to not shoot and start to miss a step in handling and using my equipment. Bad on me.
Good for you Robert using your equipment out your front door and sharing. Keep practicing and advancing in getting surfer action images. I would like to see some of your images make it into publication.
For your upcoming trip to Tanzania to be able to get the occasional BIF shoot opportunity I might suggest going to a spot that has lots of Gulls. Start wide on the zoom and work down to 500mm to sharpen your skills for moving with subjects and finding them when zoomed all the way in. No need to post them here. Keep up the good work with the surfer sports images!
Closing out this series of photos from CR. It took me longer than I was hoping given the holidays...most from a boat so really putting the OIS to the test
Agreed Frank great shots all around. Nice to see a mix of images too, love the surfers, birds and critters. If I had to pick one, the hummingbird and sloth though seems like an exceptional shot and something that would rarely happen?
I am enjoying Robert’s surfing photos too. Really fast shutter speeds driving up ISO yet he cleaned the noise up really well. I continue to think that MFT is a sweet spot place to be. The M1X with this lens really says a great deal about MFT value. I picked up this lens a couple of days ago. The early tests are great. I am not the greatest at handholding but seeing high shutter speeds and noise abatement In post processing is encouraging. The sharpness of this lens is exceptional. And then seeing low shutter speeds in the animal photos just adds to the argument this lens is worth it. The dual IS works.
Dan Starr wrote:
Agreed Frank great shots all around. Nice to see a mix of images too, love the surfers, birds and critters. If I had to pick one, the hummingbird and sloth though seems like an exceptional shot and something that would rarely happen?
Dan
Thank you! Honestly, that was dumb luck on my part but glad to take the credit!
Based on my observations it's not entirely uncommon to have the hummingbird hover in front of/buzz an animal (including a person), my guess is they are trying to assess whether something poses a threat. I've seen it a couple times, but never actually captured it.
Here's the whole series - reminding me why I love cameras like the 1X that have such a high burst rate. A millisecond sooner and its like the moment never happened
I also like shooting from boats, as was the case with this sequence, and with so many motion variables, shooting in continuous definitely seems the way to go.
Wow on the hummers BobbyV. Ours return in the spring. I am looking forward to this lens when they show up in March. I am getting used to this lens and trying it out handheld. The fox was a lucky shot. I walked around the garage and it stopped, looked and me then ran off. Only a couple of seconds. We always hear Coyotes but this was a rare siting in our yard. Handheld is going to be a benefit with this lens.
