Tips for Photographing Wildflowers

1. Use a tripod. ...
2. Wait for an overcast or cloudy day. ...
3. Position your camera's sensor so it's parallel to the most important plane of the flower. ...
4. Use a shutter speed of 1/200 or faster. ...
5. Find a flower with a good background. ...
6. Find a flower that's in good shape. ...
7. Use a telephoto lens with a short minimum focus distance.
8. Take a spray gun for water droplets

A View from Red Screes towards Windemere

A Garden Monster - Common Garden Spider (Araneus Diadematus)

Reminder Print vs Image Size

Printing images - what file size do you need?
A guide to required file sizes for printing out photos 

Sunday Morning Walk on Stretford Meadows

A couple of hours wandering around the meadows:
Highlights a Small Heath Butterfly and a 6-Spot Burnet Moth.

 

 

Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM C Lens

The Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary is a relatively compact and lightweight versatile 4x telephoto zoom lens for full-frame DSLR cameras and APS-C sensor cameras with an effective increase in focal length. The Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary features a rounded 9 blade diaphragm which creates an attractive blur to the out of focus areas of the image, built-in optical image stabilisation with an accelerometer for improved vertical and horizontal panning, an Hyper Sonic Motor for fast and quiet auto-focusing, a zoom lock switch that can be locked at any focal length, manual override (MO) which is activated by rotating the focus ring while using auto-focus, water and oil-repellent coating on the front and rear lenses, and dust and splash-proof construction on the mount.

On its way, hopefully some serious wildlife images soon, also a x1.4 teleconverter on its way, that's a massive 1344mm zoom on a canon 1.6 crop sensor.

ARRIVED:

A couple of test shots in the Garden @ 500mm - cannot wait to get out in the field with this lens.

Bobby on Hols at Nana and Grandads

Chorlton Water Park - Damselfly and Dragonfly Hunting

TIME: Saturday 10am-12noon
WEATHER: Warm but overcast day, no wind.

An informal walk led by nature expert Dave Winnard from Discover the Wild & Rhys Wynne Heritage Tress around Chorlton Water Park, organised by Heritage Trees and funded by Heritage Lottery.

FINDINGS: Common Blue Damselfly, Blue Tailed Damselfly, Emperor Dragonfly (no image), Red Eye Dragonfly (no image), Banded Demoiselle (Male), Cuckoo Spit (Black & Red Frog Hopper), Cinnabar Moth, Orange Tip Butterfly, Cockchafer, Soldier Beetle.

 

An evening of Photography

A couple of Ginge

Some Close Up Work @ CWP

WEATHER: Warm evening, overcast.
FINDINGS: Yellow Iris, Canada Geese, Mallards, Pignut, Field Rose and Silver Y Moth (?)

Stay in formation chaps, we are going in.

A few Photo's from Julie & Alan's Wedding (12th May 2018)