This Robin is a regular visitor to my backyard and is very tolerant of my presence. So naturally, after I took delivery of my 500mm PF, I had to take a few shots of this beauty. This was shot with the lens and 1.4x tc combo. The image is full-frame, but since the original composition placed the bird too low in the frame, I added some canvas to the bottom. Would love to hear your thoughts on the bright patch at the top-right corner and on the LHS. I burned them a touch, but elected to keep them in instead of cloning them out to keep things natural.
Camera - Nikon D850
Focal Length - 700mm
Aperture - f/8
Shutter Speed - 1/400s
ISO - 4000
Handheld
Manual, Auto ISO
Crop - Full-frame
Last edited by Aditya Sridhar; 08-30-2019 at 05:18 PM.
Love this one! I'm fine with the bright patches. Great details, colours and sharpness. The D850/500PF combo is something I've been considering for some time. TFS
I would have taken off the 1.4......too tight and lacks DOF at that distance.
I think the 500pf is a lot better without the extender, I have not been that happy
with the f8 images.
I'm OK with the dof, but I agree with Dan that the bid is rather large in the frame and not using the TC in this case would have helped with breathing room for the comp. Good details, and good call adding more canvas. The top bright spot I cold do without. The one on LHS is OK, but there is ghosting along the subjects outline in that area that needs to be looked at.
Thanks everyone! I just shot this image to test the 500 PF's image quality when coupled with the 1.4x tc. I totally agree about the bird being too large in the frame.
Daniel - I did notice the ghosting in the RAW capture. I need to do some further testing on the bare lens and the lens + TC combo to find the source of the problem (or maybe it's operator error). Never had this problem with my 300mm PF though so I wonder....