Birds and bees w/300mm+1.4tele

Netgarden

Hi all, thought I'd share a few, as I bought also a x2 teleconverter and tried a few shots in nice sun with both converters, and couldn't really tell much difference in clarity, which made me happy, considering I payed $35 for the x2Promaster, used. Also have a new friend across the street in the park who actually came to visit me, a rare mountain/western bluebird[see below these]




and me bluebird and small finch...


thanks for looking! happy Spring:thumb

Jeffro

Very Nice....I'm going to keep telling myself, think spring, think spring....:D

Rohirrim

Very nice captures. I like the wing blur in the 3rd one, and both birdies are very nice.

Harryb

Excellent series. Love the colors.

Thusie

Lovely! All of them. Blue Birds are so pretty. Spring Whatsat

GREAPER

The blue bird is Sweeeet.

saurora

Very nice series...love the bluebird! Looks like the 2x teleconverter worked really well for you! Very sharp, colors are great. Looks like Spring is on it's way.

Netgarden

saurora wrote:

Very nice series...love the bluebird! Looks like the 2x teleconverter worked really well for you! Very sharp, colors are great. Looks like Spring is on it's way.

Thanks everyone, the bluebird is rare here. I don't know of one person that has seen one here. We may have had some in the past in the canyons, but no where around this area, so its a real treat. Cool that he's still here, and came over to my house, how strange is that! I am thinking of planting a few wild berry bushes for him, although I have a cat, so I should go plant it at the park where he is safe.
Heres a few more of him, the last one showing up in my yard yesterday:

dallas

Netgarden wrote:

Hi all, thought I'd share a few, as I bought also a x2 teleconverter and tried a few shots in nice sun with both converters, and couldn't really tell much difference in clarity, which made me happy, considering I payed $35 for the x2Promaster, used. Also have a new friend across the street in the park who actually came to visit me, a rare mountain/western bluebird[see below these]




and me bluebird and small finch...


thanks for looking! happy Spring

Great bee shots....especially the last one. What was the other TC? I bought a Keno 2x and was dissappointed. Oh, and just where did you find the sun?

nightshadow

saurora wrote:

Very nice series...love the bluebird! Looks like the 2x teleconverter worked really well for you! Very sharp, colors are great. Looks like Spring is on it's way.

I agree, these are great!

firedancing4life

Your bee photos are superior! Nice job

Netgarden

thanks nightshadow and dallas.
I believe the first one was the 1.4x and the second one was the x2, which was a used one from ebay I bought last week, called Promaster. It appears it works well, mainly in good light. And that was a full size, slightly cropped photo reduced for my album.
The last one was the 1.4x, I think it was just a lucky clear shot, I cropped it down quite a bit. Most the bee shots are about one third of the photo cropped away, then resized for the web album.

As far as bird feathers, I think they degrade a little with the teleconverters. I do wonder if it isn't just better quality to use the lens without one and crop the photo by one third and have the same size target as with a telex, and maybe a little cleaner. For an 8x10 that'd be fine. But if you wanted a full size frame to print, you'd probably want the teleconverter. Try the kinko in good light. These were in bright light which helped alot. Around 1/1000, f4 [which surprised me] and ISO either 400 or 800.