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By: 28th June 2016 at 21:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Excellent Brian, the Greylags are excellent, as indeed are the others, I take a lot of wildlife stuff too. :)
By: 29th June 2016 at 07:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Great photos, but you are the expert so no comment on quality from me!
By: 29th June 2016 at 10:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I am just a keen hobbyist with an expensive hobby :(
I actually have an old Tamron 500MM mirror lens somewhere and that has the same boketh (blurred area) as yours with the little circular patterns, I actually found a mount so it will go on my Canon, but it is never used. I have to say your colours are superb.
I could add a couple of mine if you would like to see them Brian.
By: 29th June 2016 at 13:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Spotted this in my front garden a few weeks back.
By: 29th June 2016 at 16:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A bit bigger than a bird
:p
By: 29th June 2016 at 16:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Lovely pictures. Nothing wrong with some "bokeh", as long as it isn't overdone. It's all part of the juggling act between Focal length and aperture.
It can be handy for blurring out an unattractive background, or making the subject matter stand out. Also often unavoidable with a long focal
length and narrow depth of field.
By: 30th June 2016 at 09:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Lovely pictures.
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By: Pen Pusher - 28th June 2016 at 18:16
Don't ask because I don't know what they are, apart from of course the Squirrel and Heron and Cygnets, as I was getting in some manual focus practice with my Samyang f6.3 Reflex (Mirror) lens under varying lighting conditions. From what I had read about animal photography, you have to get the eye/eye's in focus which is what I tried for. With the lens having a very fine line between an image being in or out of focus, depending on its position I could get an eye in focus but the tip of the beak or body could be out of focus. I tried a bit of Macro photography on some flowers but had to stand about 10ft away to get them in focus and fill the frame. Just to complicate matters a bit more, there isn't in-camera or lens stabilisation. Ahhh the good old day's. As per usual with a catadioptric lens, characteristic doughnut-shape bokeh(blur) can appear in defocused areas of the image. Not to every ones taste I know.
Sony Alpha A6300 Compact Systems Camera with a Samyang 300mm f6.3 Reflex ED UMC CS lens
Brian