Well, with all this rotten weather in Brissie and Matt looking nicely after Mars, all I can seem to manage these days is a few daylight photos. Here is a collection from a day trip to Currumbin on the Gold Coast yesterday, 4th December 2007.
All taken with a Canon 40D fitted with the Canon EF70-200mm F4L IS USM lens. This is proving to be a very sharp lens indeed; I understand it has a fluorite element in there somewhere.
All taken with a Canon 40D fitted with the Canon EF70-200mm F4L IS USM lens. This is proving to be a very sharp lens indeed; I understand it has a fluorite element in there somewhere.
Thanks guys – my wife spotted the mating Dragonfly’s and we spent around 20 minutes following them, trying for this shot. I hope we didn’t gate crash their courtship!
For the seagull, I tried the “follow focus” setting (AI Servo) on the 70-200mm lens but didn’t have much luck, so I set it back to one shot and pre focused on the spot where I anticipated this gull would pass through and scored this one of the seagull in flight.
The 40D and lens can do better – it’s just early days for me yet, on the exciting learning curve.
Those Dragon flies were well worth the effort, they would be hard enough to get a good shot on their own! It's great when you can get a shot that is a little unusual.
