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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mycenius" data-source="post: 172665" data-attributes="member: 14714">I just got my new Tamron 70-300 last week and had my first outing with it at the weekend... This Blackbird is one of the shots I got at one of the local beaches on Saturday. It was a rather spontaneous shot as I turned around and the bird was sitting there about 4m away from me on some rocks. I did not have time to adjust ISO from my prior shots (I had ISO up because it was a fairly grey day and I was trying to keep shutter speed fast to help increase sharpness, although it wasn't fast in this case). I've also only had my D7100 for a month so haven't yet tweaked it much (e.g. playing with the default exposure or sharpness settings) - so it's mostly on factory defaults for those...<img src="http://images.nikonians.org/galleries/data/25173/Howick_Beach-710683-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> D7100 | Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di VC USD with Marumi DHG UV/LP Filter | ISO 500 | f/5.6 @ 300mm | 1/60The above crop is close to 1:1 off the original D7100 24MP image.I like the sharpness of this image (I'm becoming a little obsessed with fast glass), and the pose of the bird looking back over it's shoulder (it had detected my movement and was looking at me with one eye - luckily I turned but didn't approach directly or move too quickly). I'm very happy with the depth of field effect (the rocks behind are only about 30cm/1' from the bird) and the bokeh effect they have achieved. I cropped the image fairly tightly as I wanted to have the bird fill a fair portion of the frame and emphasise the detail of it's plumage and eyes & beak. I especially like that you can clearly see the brown in it's eyes, and it's whiskers around the beak (and the grains of sand stuck to the beak).</blockquote>

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