Alistair1 wrote:
I visited Lofoten again earlier in the year. Not a great experience TBH. Warm and wet with too many tourists and photography "workshops" driving endlessly about taking the same pictures. In the interests of our poor planet and my own creativity and sanity I am disinclined toward further long haul travel. Anyway some pictures, beginning with a few Lofoten cliches - all shot with Z6, Z9, 14-24z and 24-120z.
I love your comment "In the interest of our poor planet.......". Yes, these images are spectacular! And we owe most spectacular nature images to nature alone. Thanks for posting these spectacular images and acknowledging our "poor planet".
bs kite wrote:
I love your comment "In the interest of our poor planet.......". Yes, these images are spectacular! And we owe most spectacular nature images to nature alone. Thanks for posting these spectacular images and acknowledging our "poor planet".
Thanks very much for your kind comment. I don't know if it just that there is more environmental reporting these days, but it seems to me the planet has become particularly fragile in recent times. We had the biggest cyclone ever in our part of the world earlier this year and as a society are coming to grips with retreating from some developed areas and not rebuilding.
First couple of shots with Z9 & firmware 4. Nice improvement in AF! Will go back out later but happy so far. I had f6.3 dialed in somehow on first image and it was just getting light out. I used 3D AF mode for both.
Not much of a shot, but I just liked that I could get a sharp shot at 1/25sec using the Z8 + 800pf, completely free standing and not braced against anything! Cropped about 25%. Run through with Topaz Denoise
Lance B wrote:
Not much of a shot, but I just liked that I could get a sharp shot at 1/25sec using the Z8 + 800pf, completely free standing and not braced against anything! Cropped about 25%. Run through with Topaz Denoise
My first day out with a Z9 I just got. Today used the 100-400S with the 1.4x teleconverter on it. Most of the subjects were very far off. But what really surprised me was the far-off birds diving and such the wide box for subject detection allowed boxes on their eyes and stuck with them. These suckers the gulls and terns are very fast flyers. I was thrilled. No loss of sharpness with that TC. In this case a 600-800mm lens would have been more ideal I suppose. Just getting my feet wet as I'm primarily a portrait/event and Landscape shooter. So, this is very new to me.
