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Loukie Viljoen
06-11-2008, 02:21 AM
Canon 1D MKIII, 300mm f2.8, flash Mecablitz + Mecablitz extender. I had a problem, all on the vehicle had short telephoto lenses, he was too big for the 300mm I cut bot tail 7 legs off, so I took a photo of the tail and legs and stitched them together, Regrds Loukie
Robert Amoruso
06-11-2008, 12:38 PM
Loukie,

I like your idea of stitching two images due to have too long a focal length, but it is still to close at the head and tail. Do you have more room in the orignal?

Flash as main light handled well here.
Axel Hildebrandt
06-11-2008, 05:39 PM
Great find and thanks for the explanation of the workflow. What ISO did you use? I agree that a bit more room would make it even better.
Gus Cobos
06-11-2008, 07:50 PM
Nice image, I also vote for more room on top and at the bottom...:D
Vincent Grafhorst
06-12-2008, 12:02 AM
Loukie, that's a cool pose you did a neat job on the stitching, but it is still too tightly framed. Next time bring a zoom like the 100-400 or 70-200!
Loukie Viljoen
06-12-2008, 01:58 AM
2008:04:25 19:17:40
300mm
Subject dist: 15.6m
1/125 sec, f/10
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 640
AF mode: One-shot AF
Drive: Single frame shooting
White balance: Auto
Flash: External E-TTL
File size: 11.2MB
Image size: 3888 x 2592
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: +1
Sharpness: 6
Contrast: +1
Tone: +1
Custom Functions:
CFn I-3: ISO range enabled
CFn I-4: Bracketing auto cancel OFF
CFn I-7: Spot metering link

Yes zoom is the answer, but my wife had the 40D + 100 - 400mm, with on camera flash, I had the 300 mm + better flash, we had been photographing birds the whole day then the 300 was excellent, but no birds at night, so I was literally hanging off the back of the vehicle battling to get a decent image, this was the best I could do, so until I can extend the canvas etc, this will have to do, moral is buy two of each lens if your wife is also a photographer, it may be cheaper to change wives for a non photographer wife.
Vincent Grafhorst
06-12-2008, 12:56 PM
Am I glad my wife is not a photographer Loukie;)
Sabyasachi Patra
06-16-2008, 06:04 AM
2008:04:25 19:17:40
moral is buy two of each lens if your wife is also a photographer, it may be cheaper to change wives for a non photographer wife.

I loved that.