Morton Arboretum visit today

David_S85

The light was just nice enough and the sun was low enough to excite me into a quick trip over to the Morton Arboretum shortly after work today. I have been trying out a friend's 70-200 2.8 L IS lens and this jaunt would give it a real life field test. (Thanks fellow dgrinner kb9bsi!). Not every shot was a keeper in such low light (more like 1 in 12), but most would not have been possible at these focal lengths without the IS feature. I was about a week late for the full color display, but having seen the Aspens a few weeks ago in Colorado, I didn't miss autumn (gee, I still need to get to those shots too :rolleyes ) Anyway, here are some keepers from todays batch.

A small branch gets in the way of my camera.


Forest floor sunstreaked leaves.


A small bridge in the woods. 1/25 f/8 ISO800 70mm


Some backlit branches. I can never get enough of these.

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Pathway in extremely low light. 1/10 f/11 ISO1600 70mm


Tree by the DuPage River East Branch. 1/25 f/5.6 ISO1600 95mm


As I was leaving, airplane contrails made an awesome display.

anwmn1

David-

I really like the 1st two in this set. Looks like a good outing.

kb9bsi

70-200 Arboretum shots
seems I should let Dave give me a few lessons with my own lens

his 400mm prime lens rocks



some though-the-LCD focusing w/shaky, cheap tripod

jamesl

These are great man! That first one is the best IMO. I'm a sucker for saturation!

Thanks for sharing these.

James

Awais Yaqub

Lovely photos David !

David_S85

jamesl wrote:

These are great man! That first one is the best IMO. I'm a sucker for saturation!
Thanks for sharing these.
James

Saturation? When the sun is low, those leaves will glow.