Great photos everyone!
Originally posted by dane.dawg Warbler and Blackbird in the rain.
Nice Travis, I should go out more often in the rain, the ambiance is great !
Went to a GBH Nesting area today...
Herons were maybe ~200~250 ft away (at least)
although it was cloudy, I tested a couple of vintage TC's with my big FA* 250-600 f5.6 lens, since the subject were pretty static... (pics not cropped, except maybe those on in Portrait mode, but they were just cropped on the sides...All photos PP in LR5 as I use to do...)
No TC (no flash extender)
No TC
The next 2 ones With
Pentax Rear Converter-A 1.4x-L
1.4x TC with flash extender
1.4x TC with flash extender
this one with the
Pentax Rear Converter-A 2x-L
(no flash)
The results are not bad, but I observe a more "grainy" result as the TC is greater focal
the vertical ones without TC and with the 1.4x seems similar, but I had to reduce the zoom on the one with the 1.4x TC to frame the entire GBHs (hope you understand what I mean).
Other ducks that were kind enough to let me take a photo from a reasonable distance...
The challenge with the TC's was to have them in focus... since they are manual focus only...
after a couple of tries thru the viewfinder, I decided to work with LiveView's focus peaking (On the K-3)... I was not sure how this worked while I was in the field, but I think I did it right, because most of them were pretty on focus (I don't remember which ones were using that technique)...
I should be more systematic to compare all these variables, and maybe better to do that in a really sunny day... another project !
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