This article shares a small selection of quick shots from 6 stops, captured during a day out with another photographer who was visiting my local area. While I had some camera gear with me, my main objective wasn’t to capture a lot of photographs, but rather serve as an area guide, and to identify some image opportunities.
All of the images featured in this article were captured handheld, and are displayed in the order in which they were created during our photography session that day.
This short article discusses photographing White Pelicans at 2400mm efov handheld at Eastport Drive in Hamilton Ontario. This was an unplanned opportunity as this species of bird is reasonably rare in this part of Canada. In fact, this is the first time I’ve even seen any White Pelicans in this area. All of the images featured in this article are illustrated as full frame captures, without any cropping done to the files.
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This article shares some one handed macro flash test images of butterflies recently captured at the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory.
Yesterday I spent some time combining two macro technologies to see if they could be successfully used handheld in the field. I didn’t pick a particularly good day for this macro photography test as it was quite breezy around my yard. On the positive side, the weather added some interesting complexity to the endeavor.
For many of us in northern latitudes, April is a great month for a spring tune-up so we can get ready for the bird migration season. Mid-May is usually when many migratory birds start passing through our area… so I try to get some in-field practice to give my skills a spring tune-up.
Recently I had the opportunity to capture some handheld images at Bird Kingdom with the M.Zuiko 100-400 mm f/5-6.3 IS zoom. I haven’t used this lens for a while as my M.Zuiko 150-600 mm f/5-6.3 IS has become my ‘go to’ birding lens.
This article features photographs of captive butterflies in flight captured handheld with the M.Zuiko 100-400 zoom at the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory.
This article features a selection of Handheld In-Camera Focus Stacked HHFS images captured with the M.Zuiko 150-600 telephoto zoom. All of the photographs featured in this article were unplanned captures.
Using a single AF point is something that I’ve done for many years with my photography regardless of the brand, make or model of camera I’ve owned. Of course this is just a personal preference. Other photographers may use various configurations or clusters of AF points with very good results.
Observation skills are fundamental to all photographers, and are especially important to tune up prior to the bird spring migration season. Many of our best images stem from us being very aware of the environment around us.
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