Random Photography Thread Version IV

[scottgrot]

Welcome to 2010. I thought that this would be a good time to start the next generation Random Photography Thread. v 3 had 50 pages and almost 1000 posts. Not to mention countless phenomenal photographs.

So I'll kick off with Melbourne welcoming in the new year.

[Craigus]

Haha good excuse for me to post some more

C.

[scottgrot]

Haha good excuse for me to post some more

Varied Sitella:

Barn Owl:

C.

Do you have any examples of images from your 100-400L and your 400 prime? I'm curious to see the difference.
Cheers

[Craigus]

Do you have any examples of images from your 100-400L and your 400 prime? I'm curious to see the difference.
Cheers

I'll try and dig something up for you. My prime is a 300 f/2.8 though with a 1.4x TC attached it's 420 f/4.

*EDIT*

Both these images are 100% crops, no processing at all. Obviously different birds but I have tried to crop from around the eye area in both as that's always my focus point.

I'm not sure this is really a fair comparison though as the 1-4 weighs in at around $2000 compared to the 300 at $6000!

[scottgrot]

I'll try and dig something up for you. My prime is a 300 f/2.8 though with a 1.4x TC attached it's 420 f/4.

*EDIT*

Both these images are 100% crops, no processing at all. Obviously different birds but I have tried to crop from around the eye area in both as that's always my focus point.

I'm not sure this is really a fair comparison though as the 1-4 weighs in at around $2000 compared to the 300 at $6000!

100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM

300mm f/2.8L IS USM (With Canon 1.4x TC - 420mm)

Wow. I didn't realise that these two lenses had such a different price. And the clarity of the feathers really stands out with the prime. I suppose it would want to with a price tag like that!

I have never really looked at the telephoto primes. I have the 70-300 f/4-5.6 and find that I use it maybe a handful of times a month. If that. So right now I don't have any need for a telephoto prime.

It took me a little while to out grow my 17-85mm lens. When I finally got to the stage where I would refuse to use it because the image quality was so bad. I replaced it with the 24-105 f/4L. What a difference. The same can be said for the 50 f/1.8 and the 50 f/1.4 (well, almost. the 1.8 is a fantastic lens. The 1.4 is just that much better).

I guess I was curious because you said that you couldn't go back to a zoom after using the 300 prime. Considering the 100-400 is an L, I just assumed that image quality is comparatively awesome. The primes must be really awesome.

[bartron]

Almost full moon



I kinda cheated on this one. I took one image with the trees/bird in focus and another with the moon in focus and blended them together....the view was the same in both pics though

[DaveOZ]

My first attempt at a moon shot from last night. Pretty happy considering it was hand held after a few beers.

[paulharrop]

Australian Native Stingless Bee at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha



Paul

[paulharrop]

Couldn't resist one more. Frog sculpture at Botanic Gardens on Children's Trail.



Paul

[andytlr]

Few of the better ones from New Years.





























And a couple from a series of shoes I've started.

[tcimac]

Random NYE Fun... a tad childish I know !!! :-)

[yinyang]

new iPhone app called hipstamatic - great fun

[doofus]

Haha good excuse for me to post some more

C.

Wonderful photos! Having tried unsucessfully to capture decent shots of birds in the past I can appreciate your great work.

My style is much easier. Put on the sunscreen and hat, give the grommets plenty of sugar and add water!

[TheKeddi]

Here are a few taken over the xmas period last year, last year already! lol

[b00]

Let us know what you think of it. If you want ive got wallpaper size.
Taken while overseas, in 2007.
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[Lutze]

Having a play with my new nifty 50mm 1.8, Subject is the handsome feline Tripod - Aged ~3.

[cying39]

I'll join in on the fresh start

New D300S shots...











All taken in Malaysia and Singapore over the Holiday period.

[BLINDER]

Fourteen months since I last put photos into "Collection 3".
Here's a bunch more that were on the computer without doing too much fossicking around (there's a bunch of back up hard drives that serve as my archives).
Mainly shot w/ the D700, a bunch of lenses, worked up in Aperture and occasionally enhanced with Nik plug-ins.

[swoffa]

Just received my Yongnuo Timer Remote $46 AUS. BARGAIN! Canons version is well over $200. Just had to try it out.

9 min
f/4.0
iso 100
24mm



Think I need a wider lens

edit : Trails look a little wonky here. The larger version on flickr looks OK though.

[andytlr]

Just received my Yongnuo Timer Remote $46 AUS. BARGAIN! Canons version is well over $200. Just had to try it out.

9 min
f/4.0
iso 100
24mm



Think I need a wider lens

I tried this the other night. I found anything over 20min caused lots of noise. So to get massive star trail shots you probably need to layer many 10min shots. Which I guess is a project for another day when I'm out of the city and can actually see stars.

So Canon's version is $200? Nikon's remote is about $40. Does the Canon one do magic tricks?