Nikon 200-500/5.6 VR Lens....... post your photos!
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singlerosa_RIP
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From practice day at track weekend -STL PCA in St. Louis hosting Porsche Club Racing at Gateway Motorsports Park. Slight tweek in LR, no crop.
Friggs
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Yellow-Crowned Night Herons by William Friggle, on Flickr
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Friggs
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The last of these three is almost the whole image (I just straightened the horizon). I'm amazed at how sharp the image is when it is cropped so much. The first two images are very small parts of the whole image.
Fortkentdad
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Talk about a miss-match. I thought we were going into a butterfly display, and I thought the butterflies may be fluttering up in the trees and a fair distance away. Even though the promotion read: "This exhibit will be packed with extravagant hydrangeas, baby’s breath and cineraria as well as large topiaries of butterflies and other pollinators." they were using butterflies as a metaphor - there were only paper butterfly decorations. So here I was with a 200-500 superzoom taking pictures of flowers in Edmonton's Muttart Conservatory glass pyramids.
And it worked!!
Focus distance is about 10 feet (it says 7.2 but I don't think I could get that close - does it matter which camera you are using or do the settings change the min. focus distance?) But certainly I had to back up a lot.
paper butterflies. ... oh well at least they don't move.
Love the faded bokeh on this one
This one of the cactus buds was shot a lot more than 10 feet away - this cactus was on top of a display and easily 10 feet tall itself. Probably 20-25 feet away. This shot rivals my macro's.
I'd have to admit that a 105 2.8 macro would have been a better choice for a floral shoot (and probably a butterfly shoot too) but this is the lens I had and I made the most of it.
And it worked!!
Focus distance is about 10 feet (it says 7.2 but I don't think I could get that close - does it matter which camera you are using or do the settings change the min. focus distance?) But certainly I had to back up a lot.
paper butterflies. ... oh well at least they don't move.
Love the faded bokeh on this one
This one of the cactus buds was shot a lot more than 10 feet away - this cactus was on top of a display and easily 10 feet tall itself. Probably 20-25 feet away. This shot rivals my macro's.
I'd have to admit that a 105 2.8 macro would have been a better choice for a floral shoot (and probably a butterfly shoot too) but this is the lens I had and I made the most of it.
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I'm thinking this lens might do a good enough job on butterflies etc. to stop me wanting to buy a longer macro lens for a while at least. If I want to do proper macro on things that don't want to fly off I still have my 55mm 2.8.
Here are a few shots of my spaniel Jasper taken on the beautiful Northumberland coast today.
Here are a few shots of my spaniel Jasper taken on the beautiful Northumberland coast today.
He certainly was! We didn't see much of him yesterday evening as he'd wore himself out pretty well, which is a rarity with him.
singlerosa_RIP
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Shot in my backyard. Gimbal on a monopod cause I'm lazy. Also was too lazy to crank the lens out to 500mm.
Met a friend out today who wanted to try the 200-500mm, he was using 300mm f/4 PF with 1.4 teleconverter. He's just compared shots taken of the same subject with both and the 200-500mm outperformed it. He may well swap his primes for this lens and get a D500 with what is left over.
Here's one of my favourite shots from today.
Here's one of my favourite shots from today.
singlerosa_RIP
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Spent an hour at a local air show and realized I don't know squat about shooting prop planes with a big lens. Even lowering SS to 1/60 would not produce propeller blur (much less give a sharp shot).
The EXIF says your SS was 1/1600th and 1/3200th.
singlerosa_RIP
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I know. I'm saying that I tried 1/60 and still couldn't get prop blur without blurring the whole image. Much more difficult that motorsports, at least with this lens. In retrospect, I should have taken the 70-300 or 70-200 and cropped.