I think I’m just tapping into the top layer of the wildlife in this place, but so far what I’ve seen it’s mostly the furry, fluffy stuff. In a variety of sizes. Mostly big…
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/3.5, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/3.5, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4.5, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4.8, Tamron 90mm, on-camera flash
I’ve missed them before. Used to see them way earlier in the year, at least the Admirals. But now there were a lot of them (and thus I shot a lot of them, to make up for the lack of pictures in early summer 😀 ). They were a little skittish at first, but after I introduced myself and we got more acquainted…
D800, ISO400, 1/125 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4, Nikon 70-200mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4, Tamron 90mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4.2, Tamron 90mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 70-200mm
All you need is a dinner table, a willing family member, an Ikea light and a camera. Et voilà .
D700, ISO3200, 1/125 sec @ f/4.8, Nikkor 50mm
A little break from the Canaries…
Now that summer’s come to an end, and fall has been disappointingly short, and before I go out and change the tires on my car to studded ones, I thought I’d give a last little reminder of this year’s summer…. *sighs*
D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/4.2, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash
D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash
D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash
D200, ISO100, 1/250sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash
D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash
D200, ISO100, 1/500 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 70-200mm
Awhile ago I bought a nice little gadget to clean the sensor of my camera. It’s called Arctic Butterfly from Visible Dust and it’s this little brush with a battery that somehow does something with static electricity (see www.visibledust.com).
It’s not really such a big thing, but (don’t ask me what I was thinking!) I decided not to take it along on holiday. I had my Giotto Air Bellower, which I figured should be enough.
Of course… After the first couple of days of changing lenses, the sensor had gathered a good amount of dust. I thought to clean it with the Air Bellower and when I went about bellowing air on the sensor, indeed a lot of the dust disappeared. But there was also a massive chunk that flew in and refused to come off. I tried everything, even went as dangerously far as taking the brush I usually use to clean the lens glass with and brush over the sensor (DON’T try that at home, folks!!!), but it wouldn’t come off.
That was in the first days…
It’s funny how fast and how easy one accepts one’s fate.
I soon realized that there was little I could do. The dust was stuck. Stuck badly. And we were in the sticks, in the middle of nowhere, so I couldn’t bring it somewhere to have it cleaned.
So I just grunted, moaned and complained to my better half with almost every single picture I took, that it would take me 2 years to clean up all the pictures from all the dust speckles and such and such…
And that’s what I’m probably going to do in the coming two years (if you don’t see the spots, look at the bigger pic. And go see the optician…)
D200, ISO100, 1/180 sec @ f/11, Tamron 28-75mm, box full of crap on the sensor
D200, ISO100, 1/6 sec @ f/32, Tamron 28-75mm, a closet full of crap on the sensor