June 9th, 2009 Peter Korkala
Today’s trip in the woods ended up with photos of two birds, one European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and one Black Grouse or Capercaillie - I cannot tell the difference…
Tags birds, 400 mm, photo, European Robin, Black Grouse
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April 14th, 2009 Peter Korkala
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. :)
Tags photo, swans, birds, close-up, 400 mm, Grängesberg
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April 13th, 2009 Peter Korkala
This is a fascinating bird. It’s really big - at least for being a bird! It’s more than one meter long and around 2-2,5 meters wingspan!
I really love my “new” Tokina 400 mm lense! :)
Tags common cranes, 400 mm, birds, photo
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April 5th, 2009 Peter Korkala
Yesterday evening I made my first attempt to catch the moon with my 400 mm lense:
The photo is not cropped.
This is the same photo, but cropped (and I also sharpened it with unsharp mask in Photoshop):
This is the same photo once again, but cropped in another way. It turned out a little bit noisy, so I desaturated it and sharpened it with unsharp mask:
Now I’m waiting for the full moon! :)
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March 18th, 2009 Peter Korkala
This Sunday I took my new 400 mm for a walk in Örebro, a fairly large city (around 120,000 people) 90 km to the south of my home. I’m still learning how to manage the new lense, but with a bit of luck one and another photo comes out sharp and nice (I’m not used to use manual focus)… :)
This photo is NOT sharp, but I like the composition. It would have been very nice if the girl’s legs and shoes were in focus.
Here’s almost the same photo, but with another focus. I like this one too.
A pair of walking shoes. :)
A street in Örebro.
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March 10th, 2009 Peter Korkala
Yesterday I recieved my new Tokina 400 mm! Yay! I’ve always wanted to have a good zoom lens! Although this one is without zoom (always 400 mm) I’m very glad to have it. To bad though that I haven’t tried it out yet - the weather is so bad outside (snowing heavily) and this lens is certainly not a very good one for indoor use… Keep your finger crossed for sunshine tomorrow! :)
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