Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Joel Eade]

I couldn't stand it any longer....it looks like the new super tele's are still a year away and found a pristine used 500 f/4 for less than 1/2 the price of a new 600 so I went for it!!!

no wonder it's 700mm. Joel, Congratulations! it looks like a very sharp copy, we can expect more stunning shots coming from you!
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Joel, Congrats on the new glass. I am confident you will be very happy with it. It's a great lens and should suit your needs well on your upcoming trip . Two suggestions if you haven't already done so:


1. Update your insurance


2.Consider a Gimbal head, The Wimberly Sidekick is a great compromise and holds the 500 very well.---I love mine and haven't even thought about a full size gimbal head since I purchased it.


I can't wait to see what you do with this new lens

Thanks for the tips, looking forward to many opportunities to use the 500

[bouwy]

Magic shot Steve. Well done Mate.


wally

[Richard Lane]

@Steve, I love the composition of the lilly!


@Ben, Awesome shot and what a great location!


Rich

[Andy Stringer]

Joel, that's a lovely shot of the red squirrel. We have them round here too, but they are very shy. How far away was it, and did you have to crop the shot?

Ben, that lightning shot is shockingly good (pardon the pun).

Steve, I'm glad there's somebody to post lovely shotsfrom their garden. I'll be lucky to see mine in daylight before next spring.

Went for a ten mile hike in the Cairngorms National Park today. It was either that or finish cutting my conifer hedge. I think I made the right choice.

The "Punch Bowl"

1D Mark IV, TS-E24mm f/3.5L II, 0.3s, f/16, ISO 50

Some 82mm filters for this lens are on my Christmas list.

This hill is "Beinn Bhreac", which translates as "Speckled Hill"

1D Mark IV, EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 54mm, 1/13s, f/10, ISO 100

[Steve U]

Two great shots Andy, like the water flow and the second one is post card material.


Steve

[conropl]

Andy, I like the "Punch Bowl" best, but I am a sucker for a water falls.


I have not been very good about getting to my shots in a timely fashion and processing them. Just got to this one from September.





Edit: 7D, 24-105mm f/4L @ 35mm, f/16, 1/10 sec

[Kayaker72]

Andy... Another sucker for waterfalls here, nice shot. But I really like #2. Very peaceful. Love it.


Conrupl. If they are that good I am happy to wait. Great capture.

[Joel Eade]

Joel, that's a lovely shot of the red squirrel. We have them round here too, but they are very shy. How far away was it, and did you have to crop the shot?

Thanks, the squirrel was around 60-70 feet away and the image is cropped probably 50% or so but with the 500mm + 1.4 TC on a 1.6 crop factor body you have 1120mm focal length effectively!

[Andy Stringer]

Thanks for the comments everyone.


John: thanks for the info on the filter. I noticed you mention this in another thread recently. I'll have a look for sources in the UK.


Joel:thanks for the reply. It's useful info since I've been considering acquiring a 500mm lens when funds permit.


Pat: I agree with Brant (Kayaker) - no need to apologise for your backlog of processing, there's no time limit in this thread.

[Sheiky]

Pat: I agree with Brant (Kayaker) - no need to apologise for your backlog of processing, there's no time limit in this thread.

Ah great! Since you're mentioning this. My girlfriend and I were digging through the pile of holiday photos yesterday and here's two that I'd like to share. The intention is that we're done digging through all of them by the end of the week...fingers crossed, but it's about time


These two photos were shot at the V&oslash;ringsfossen, a big waterfall in Norway. Well it's actually one very big waterfall which falls so hard that it's pushing another smaller waterfall on the other side back up again, which creates a huge amount of waterdroplets, which in order can create a nice rainbow.


My girlfriend is sitting half a meter off the edge were there's a 180m drop down. I also took a shot holding my camera over the edge and it was sketchy Later that day we hiked down towards the waterfall, which was also great. Perhaps I'll share that later on