sungphoto wrote:
Commercial designer and calligraphy artist Kotaro-san, in his studio in Sapporo Japan, with a Z8 and 24-70 f4. This is part of a personal series I entered in the 2023 International Photo Awards, and it won an official selection and honorable mention
Z9 with the 400 2.8 FL and 1.7 tc taken at f5.6
I am not much into Avian photography but often going hiking and bring the 400 along.
I shoot fast flying birds as a way to practice panning for when I shoot sports..
one more from my hike with the Z9 and the 400 2.8 FL with 1.7 tc.
I thought I'd try the bird eye AF with a subject against a busy background.
Let's just say I am overly impressed with how well it works.
I only took this photo to see how well it would be, I do not like busy backgrounds and normally
this would not have ever been posted..
Creative Edge wrote:
one more from my hike with the Z9 and the 400 2.8 FL with 1.7 tc.
I thought I'd try the bird eye AF with a subject against a busy background.
Let's just say I am overly impressed with how well it works.
I only took this photo to see how well it would be, I do not like busy backgrounds and normally
this would not have ever been posted..
Thank you! I was also impressed with the 8k output on the Z9 (which was rigged right next to the Z8 to capture video). The kanji characters mean "sky" and "earth". We did a second one that was a bit more abstract
bs kite wrote:
I'll say it publicly.......I have a hatred for such people .
Just playing devils advocate here — what if they are very poor and using that animal to feed their hungry family? Doubtful yes. But I’ve lived long enough to caution myself about jumping to hasty, even if rational, conclusions.
gear-nut wrote:
Just playing devils advocate here — what if they are very poor and using that animal to feed their hungry family? Doubtful yes. But I’ve lived long enough to caution myself about jumping to hasty, even if rational, conclusions.
well I'd expect if they were poor and using the animal to feed their family, they would've taken parts of the animal other than just the head.
but hey, maybe some people prefer 10lbs of head meat over 100lbs of body meat I suppose
didn't mean to start a political discussion, but it was a big buck, head chainsaw'd off at the shoulder line, not gutted, entire body left right where it fell near the sidewalk. definitely not someone who needed food.
it was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen, especially given that any child walking down that stretch of sidewalk would turn a corner right into it
nmerc_photos wrote:
well I'd expect if they were poor and using the animal to feed their family, they would've taken parts of the animal other than just the head.
but hey, maybe some people prefer 10lbs of head meat over 100lbs of body meat I suppose
didn't mean to start a political discussion, but it was a big buck, head chainsaw'd off at the shoulder line, not gutted, entire body left right where it fell near the sidewalk. definitely not someone who needed food.
it was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen, especially given that any child walking down that stretch of sidewalk would turn a corner right into it ...Show more →
Thank you
Sorry to everyone. Promise that this is my last comment on this. I do not want to divert the thread any further.
A whitetail buck that reached its peak is a magnificent animal, even more-so alive. *This is a desecration of wildlife.... and for a purely selfish reason*. And as you said, its decapitated body was left there for all to see, including children.
I would love to learn that the POS responsible was identified and posted in the local paper, including the person's face.
Just wondering if the state wildlife agency could take DNA from that buck and match it to a head with a large rack from one of the local taxidermists.
This is not a crop. It's a single frame from a video.
While I was videoing this Mother loon with her chick, I found that my canoe was being very slowly moved closer to her. The *slightest* air movement pushing on my canoe's freeboard will very slowly move my canoe. Maybe it is because I have no keel on this one. I do not know.
With this image I am near the 500PF's MFD, and she is ok with this. Behaviorists have named this "Conditioning". By her tolerating this closeness, I am even more certain than before, that she is the female for this basin for many years. We have been near each other many times over the years. She is the mate of the male that was killed last year by an intruding male. *And that intruding male is her mate this year.*. Loons do not mate for life.
This shows me why the 180-600 zoom will be very valuable for my video work.
This single frame was taken from a DaVinci Resolve vid and quickly pushed thru Topaz Ai. The image was reduced and the Exif box was checked.
