Close-ups of swans
April 14th, 2009 Peter Korkala Posted in Photo |
This afternoon we drove by a lake in Grängesberg where there usually are swans. We were lucky! The ice was melted and a pair of swans were there.
They came so close I had to stand back a bit. My close-up limit of the 400 mm lense is somewhere around 3-4 meters, and the swans came too close! Very exiting! :)
In the last photo you can see the swan chewing on a bit of bread. That’s the reason they came so close - we gave them some bread to eat. :)
April 15th, 2009 at 3:47 am
real cool
April 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
OMG. I am in deep envy. I want to have a 500mm, but can´t afford it yet. So when I try to shoot birds and animals on distance they all come out small as ants :(
Your shots are just wonderful.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Thank you very much Ivar! It means a lot to me when you say so, because you’re one of my favourite photgraphers - you’re always taking so nice photos! Thanks! :)
My 400 mm is a used one, and fully manual. I payed less than 1000 SEK for it, and I’m very satisfied with it. Of course it’s more work with a manual lense, but I think it’s kind of fun. But then again, a lot of my photos are crap because the focus is wrong, but every now and then I get a crisp clear photo. It takes a while to get used to it, and I’m getting more and more experience of the manual focus.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
For my frog shot I used my only lens. A Tamron 18-270mm. I was pretty close. I think I couldn’t go closer due to focus :-)