Lovely bird Joe. Well captured in flight too - very sharp.
Dave
I agree, well caught and sharp. Don't forget the horizons in the top two though....
Excellent catch.
Top bird is excellent. I think you could easily crop out the background land.
Those flowers are wonderful. I am impressed that you got them both so sharp. Now, if only I could get my flower pictures to look like that! Do you remember what you focused on? The stem half way in between?
Hi Frank, I had a crop without the background land. It just looked like a bird flying over water with nothing but the bird as a point of interest. On this version I left the background land because it was blurred, I thought it added to the photo suggesting that the Egret was flying over water but between Mangrove islands.
Concerning the flower I shot that at a shutter speed of 1/160 with the camera on a monopod. The aperature was f/8 with my Nikon 55-300mm AF-S VRII at 150mm. I shoot with a Nikon D7000 which enables fine tuning of the auto-focus which I have done with this lens. The point of focus I am sure was on one of the flowers, with this lens the depth of field is fine for getting both flowers in sharp focus and blurring the grass background which was several feet behing the flowers. Hope this helps.
Good shots Joe, Does the micro focus adjustment hold up throughout the focal range of the lens?Concerning the flower I shot that at a shutter speed of 1/160 with the camera on a monopod. The aperature was f/8 with my Nikon 55-300mm AF-S VRII at 150mm. I shoot with a Nikon D7000 which enables fine tuning of the auto-focus which I have done with this lens. The point of focus I am sure was on one of the flowers, with this lens the depth of field is fine for getting both flowers in sharp focus and blurring the grass background which was several feet behing the flowers. Hope this helps.
Thanks Mike, I have found that it does but from what I read on the subject it was suggested to fine tune the autofocus on a zoom lens at the focal length that is used most often. In my case that was at the 300mm end which with the crop factor for Nikon DX cameras of 1.5 extended the focal lenght of the 300mm to 450mm. I shoot a lot of nature (birds) and unless in a blind most always shooting the the far end on the lens.
Interesting, thanks Joe. It surely didn't seem to hurt anything at 150mm by the looks of that flower shot.