On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 09:36:19AM +0200, Alan C wrote: > Very nice. Thanks
> Did you notice the peeved look in its eye? Pretty much everything that looks at me has a peeved expression. I guess annoying things is my super-power. > > Alan C > > -----Original Message----- From: Larry Colen > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:19 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Sparrows, now at twice the focal length! > > I brought the bigma to work today. Using what I learned on Friday, > plus a lens with twice the max focal length (500 vs 250mm), I took far > fewer frames, but I think the results were a lot better. > > I think that artistically, this is the best of the lot: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11526987596/ > > Here is today's set of 16: > http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638969196746/ > > And for those that want to do a side by side of the tamron 18-250 > versus the sigma 50-500, these are the ones I shot last week > http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638889151025/ > > Observations: > Even in these days of ridiculously high resolution sensors, > focal length matters. > > Particularly at high resolution on my big monitor, a few of the photos > looked just a bit rough in the noise department. It turns out that > they were shot at ISO 6400. The twenty first century has done some > very good things for photography. > > Even so, I really should have used my monopod so that I could have > dropped the shutter speed and gotten more depth of field or a lower > ISO. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
