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28-02-2006, 19:14
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Nature Reserve Pics
I left work early today and decided to give my sigma 70-300mm a bit if a session. Here are a few of the results, please give me any pointers as this is the first 'real' go I've had with my 350d etc....Thanks
     
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28-02-2006, 19:30
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Wow, thats one tame Robin there !
Very nice detail on those Glen 
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28-02-2006, 19:31
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Now that is the result I was looking for on my Robin hunt! Wonderful Pictures of creatures great and small! Is the Sigma the macro version as my images seemed very soft on my 70-300 (used on 35mm first now on 350D) when compared with the same settings on the 18-200.
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28-02-2006, 19:40
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Yeh, for some reason the closer I got to the robin, the more tame he/she became, at one point I was no more than 3-4 feet away.
Yes the lens is the APO macro version. |
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28-02-2006, 19:41
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The Robins look pretty good, looks like that Sigma is an excellent quality lens
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28-02-2006, 19:47
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Excellent Robin. He looks to be very tame.
The swans look slightly 'blown' to me. Need to be very careful metering them, mind you grebes are even worse! Mark |
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28-02-2006, 19:58
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excellent shots, you got a good 70-300 there,
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28-02-2006, 19:59
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Whats a grebe? I'm not much of a bird(feathered kind) man.
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28-02-2006, 20:05
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 It doesnt really show on this image but they have a very bright front so can easily confuse metering. |
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28-02-2006, 20:18
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Great shots Glen ... especially the Robin ! The Swan shots need a bit more work but as you were testing the lens I would say you've proved it's capability on Robins at least !
And your GCG is pretty good too Mark ! TFS ... |
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28-02-2006, 21:26
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The robin shots are great
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28-02-2006, 21:39
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Excellent pics Glen, well done.
I am actually considering the same lens for my Nikon D50. |
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28-02-2006, 21:52
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Staggering. Well done!
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28-02-2006, 22:01
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brilliant I love the robins
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28-02-2006, 22:47
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nice shots!!
Really like the third one. How far away were you taking those shots?
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28-02-2006, 23:34
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By the time I got to that third pic I had actually taken 11 of the robin, so i was about 5-6ft away, fildling to get my monopod detached from my bag and on the camera without scaring him away? I think that lesson to be learn't is put everything on/together first.
Here is another one which I took after that. I've only cropped all the pics and done a very fine tweak of the levels in PS. They were shot in normal mode, at f5.6, at 300mm the shutter was 1/200 I think. 
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