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09-20-2019, 08:27 PM   #31681
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QuoteOriginally posted by Trissa Quote
With the Sigma 500 F4.5 and 2x Kenko Macro Converter and Pentax 1.4x Converter


And as a bonus:
Stunning.

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This doesn't match @Trissa 's stunning moonshot, but the venerable K 500/4.5 + A 2x-L didn't fare too badly, I think... and would probably do even better if the photographer did better


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Tokina AT-X AF 400mm

The late summer sun has kept the dragonflies active later into September than I would normally expect. Reaching them is tricky, however, as the roosting spots are often low in thick undergrowth. My Tokina 400mm performs best at moderate distances - just right for this roosting Migrant Hawker. However, the focus throw is too short to make DIF anything other than a spray and pray exercise.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Mike.P® Quote

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Juvenile (it has just a few months), female. Beautiful bird! If you're not already addicted by the kingfisher, you'll become one very soon.
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Waterbirds from Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. K-3 + FA*300 f4.5.

Cape Barren Goose


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Over the last week or so I've been perusing this thread to try and get to the end. Have to say there's a lot of good work in here. I need to get better with using the like buttons.

While grabbing some hummingbird shots late last month, a road runner hopped into the tree chasing something. Never seen that before. Grabbed a few shots as it was jumping around. Not that great, lots of foliage in the way.

K-1, DA*300 + 1.4TC, all 3 are cropped a bit.






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QuoteOriginally posted by Pentikonian Quote
While grabbing some hummingbird shots late last month, a road runner hopped into the tree chasing something. Never seen that before. Grabbed a few shots as it was jumping around. Not that great, lots of foliage in the way.
Always tough shooting into foliage. Well done - great detail in the first shot and a nice cryptic quality in the other two.

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Another lifer in 2019! Captured this pair of Blue Rock-Thrush in the sky-bridge of 50-storey residential building (The Pinnacle@Duxton - Wikipedia), heard the first sighting was back in 2017!

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Black and white and color versions of an Eurasian Eagle Owl in the branches,

photographed through the mesh of the enclosure at the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center

K 3 II + SMC PENTAX-DA* 300mm F4 ED [IF] SDM
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QuoteOriginally posted by Des Quote
Always tough shooting into foliage. Well done - great detail in the first shot and a nice cryptic quality in the other two.
Thanks!
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After attending the Birdlife Photography conference in Fremantle on the weekend I was inspired to pull out my 510mm F5.6 combo and try it with the K-1 mark2. No birds yet but this test shot is hand held and reasonably sharp. Now to go birding!

Lens is Adaptal 60B 300mm F2.8 with SMC 1.7AF TC.
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I think I'm in love.
Went out to the backyard last night and shot M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) with the SMC A* 400mm f/2.8 and was very pleased with the individual shots. Light pollution is probably my biggest issue now even with the Hoya red intensifier but I am getting dust lanes from my back yard which is a bright bortle 8 area with a 9 about a mile away. The only optical issue I am seeing with the lens is that it does have some coma but it isn't bad and I was shooting at f/2.8. I plan on shooting another set Wednesday night when it is clear and dry again but will see how it performs at f/4 to see if the cleans up the coma. I will post the results once processed.

I think the Sigma 300mm f/4 APO macro is getting retired from astro shooting. Good thing it is still useful for lots of other things.
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Beautiful shooting!
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