[gregor]

May 27, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Hi Madeleine,
For me the 2nd one works better, you got some black dots on the first photo up in the clouds! Not sure if it’s the sensor that needs to be cleaned or some drops of rain on the lens.
Cheers,
Grgeor

[gregor]

May 11, 2009 at 10:23 am

You should consider Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 G AF-S ED Lens stunning lens, however no filters for that one, well I have seen photos showing filters attached to it so it is possible :wink:.
Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 G AF-S ED Lens is another option not as wide but awesome lens.

[gregor]

May 7, 2009 at 3:33 pm

You could also consider Tammy 17-50 2.8 which is sharp as razor and is very well priced. Zoom lens will also give you wider range, but I believe 50d is tempting :wink:

[gregor]

May 4, 2009 at 6:22 pm

Well from my experience I would use from 4 to 8 gigs within 2 maybe 3 days that depends, but it’s me and my wife taking photos, and we shoot a lot, our solution is; we always bring 4 cards around 8gigs of space and upload them every evening to Vosonic VP5500 80GB Portable Media Player 5400, which you can get for about 160£ in warehouseexpress. The hard drive is pretty handy as it allows you to replace the drive inside in case you run out of space; you can also view all your photos and see if there is any issue before you wipe them out from your cards. If you will have access to PC you can also take another external drive and back it up there as well (those usb external drives are very light now and very cheap, wallet size). We’ve been using the vosonic drive for over a year now no issues at all, you can also get spare batteries, forgot to mention that it’s battery powered drive which takes most memeory cards, you can upload your photos in the field very handy.

When it comes to lenses

Cheers Ross I have a 17-70 and 70-300 so they should cover me

It should cover pretty much everything, I got one of those walk around lenses Tamron 18-250 it’s brilliant if you don’t want to carry much gear and be able to cover wide range, I always bring it with me when doing plenty of walking.
Have good time and enjoy your holidays.

[gregor]

April 16, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Hey Kevin,
Great set of photos, would you mind sharing your lighting set up.
Thanks,
Gregor

[gregor]

April 3, 2009 at 4:48 pm

Very nice set of photos :!:
The Eiger is a scary wall!

[gregor]

March 18, 2009 at 6:17 pm

This is very nice!

[gregor]

March 15, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Very nice and sharp!

[gregor]

March 15, 2009 at 11:21 am

Hi Cookster,
Higher iso will allow for greater shutter speeds, that means it’s just easier to hand hold longer lenses and still get sharp photos, for greater DOF you would change you aperture to a higher number , you were shooting at f5.6 which is as wide as it gets on your lens (which was good selection). The exposure is ok on these photos, you have whites blown out (lost details in whites) on top of the birds but you had harsh sun light falling on them where the other parts are in shadows, kind of tricky to photograph.
What software are you using to view your photos? You should be able to view your exif data there, you can see it in the photoshop as well go to file-info and just check what’s there!

[gregor]

March 13, 2009 at 9:10 pm

Perhaps you can find some more info in here
Tamron
http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=308&sort=7&cat=43&page=1
Tokina
http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=326&sort=7&cat=40&page=1
Good Luck

[gregor]

March 13, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Very nice set here some action as well!
The 1st one would be my favorite!

[gregor]

March 13, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Hey Cookster,
Yes high iso will increase the grain in your photos, but either you have un-sharp photos that you can’t do anything with, or you have a bit of noise that you can try to remove with the software. Manual focusing is not fun when you’re shooting birds though :) , so I’d say you did pretty well there. Try to get mono pod that will help you avoid blur due to hand shake. Don’t be afraid using higher iso, see how far you can go with it and what is acceptable for you, you can also try to remove the noise to some extent with software.

Cheers,

[gregor]

March 12, 2009 at 2:53 pm

They seem to be a little un-sharp, I checked the EXIF you could try to bring up your iso even higher, or use monopod, could you share how you did actually photograph them?
And another question, would you mind sharing where you actually photographed them. I have been thinking now for a while about heading to Galapagos and getting the blue footed ones :) , they seem to be very friendly over there!

[gregor]

March 9, 2009 at 10:54 pm

This is very nice :!:

[gregor]

March 5, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Great piece of equipment! No problems with it at all, I have it now for 2 years.