Recent content by salukfan111

Here was a goshawk I've been stalking around town. I look out my patio door and it's sitting in a tree. It turned out to be the largest Coopers Hawk I've ever seen. Too bad it was 45 yards away.

This one didn't turn out quite right. No crop on this and just didn't look right. I tried reprocessing below.

pelicans

some super long large swallows

I got stuck way too close and had to use a 10mm Roko. It turned out ok but the Zeiss 35mm f/2 Distagon is much better lens. Next Corn Festival I will be better prepared and secure a better spot.

I was bored waiting for a hawk to fly by. This was taken at about 60ft with a 600mm f4 and a TC 2.0 III (I just got it and wanted to try out).

I'm trying to get the PP down on these fireworks shots and here are two more with a lot of export sharpening and two after that with minimal. Less export sharpened.

This really shines at night.

The 80-400 G not so good for this, I've got a 300 f/2.8 edif with af'ing TC, 70-300 vrg (worse than 80-400G), and 600mm f4 (kinda heavy). I'm just curious what everyone is using. I'm leaning towards a 300 f/2.8 VR which (with TCIII 1.4x and 2.0x &600 f4) would let me get rid of all my EDIF MF...

barn swallows

The moon kicked my butt tonight. All the good stuff was on the right side.

Not a real sexy shot but here is a processed (mild) and noise reduction processed (kind of crushed) at 65000 iso.

Some from nygren wetlands.