GatoMoteado
GatoMoteado's JournalAcorn Woodpecker
This beautiful bird was photographed from the patio at Miriam's Soda in San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica.
Even on cloudy days, it's a challenge for me to get the white forehead of this bird to not get so over-exposed that all the detail gets blown out. Detail is often unrecoverable even when I try to dodge it in with Photoshop. If you under-expose you can save the forehead but often the detail in the black feathers gets completely blown. I haven't found the perfect compromise yet, though I am pretty happy with this shot.
nikon D850 and nikkor 300mm f/4 PF
tell me what kind of gear you have and post a shot in this thread
i'm interested in hearing what kinds of cameras everyone is using (DSLR, mirrorless, P&S, bridge, smart phone or even film).
i shoot mainly with nikon gear (D7200, D750 and D850) but i also have a sony A7RII and lumix GH4 and G9, so i'm shooting with a combo of DSLRs and mirrorless. i prefer prime lenses to zooms because of speed/brightness and image quality (and weight)....maximum aperture is important because i like to really separate my subject from the background.
i mainly do wildlife and portraits.
here's a green crowned brilliant hummingbird shot with the nikon D850 and nikkor 300mm f/4 PF:
now for something a little different....
i call this one "el viverista" (the nurseryman). it's what's called an environmental portrait; a portrait of somebody in their environment, showing you something significant about them (usually their livelihood) by including their immediate environment in the frame. in this case you can see he's in a nursery, but i didn't want the greenhouses in the background to distract from him....i wanted them just in enough focus so you could recognize them.
this was shot with the nikon D7200 and nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Fleischmann's Glass Frog
These small frogs (about the size of a nickel when flattened and sleeping under a leaf) are common up at 1500 meters in Reserva La Carpintera near Cartago, Costa Rica. On rainy nights you hear their sharp whistle-like calls all around bodies of water, where the females lay eggs on the underside of broad-leafed plants, like heliconias, bananas, philodendrons, etc. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles drop into the water below.
this image was taken during the day with my nikon D850 and 105mm f/2.8 micro nikkor and i used an off camera flash at low power (1/32) which rendered the background so underexposed it came out black, and that was intentional:
this image was also taken during the day with the same camera and lens, but without a flash:
Mother Capuchin Nursing Baby
This White-Faced Capuchin nursing her baby was photographed in Palo Verde National Park in Costa Rica. Normally, when photographing wildlife with a telephoto lens, I use a tripod with a gimbal head. Much of the time, with monkeys in the wild, I find that you have to constantly move around too much for a tripod to be practical, so this shot was hand held. For this shot, I focused on the mother's eyes, but the baby was the one looking directly at me. I use movable single point focusing on my Nikon DSLRs for pretty much everything, and sometimes changing focus point location in the viewfinder quickly to catch a shot is not easy. I think the photo is still a powerful image, but if I were to get a similar photo opportunity, I would try to focus on the baby's eyes.
nikon D850 and nikkor 300mm f/4 PF
honey bee focus stack with my nikon D7200 on a motorized rail
1) Subject : honey bee (shot post-mortem)
2) Camera : nikon D7200
3) Lens : reverse mounted 24mm 2.8 nikkor lens
4) Magnification: approx 2.4:1
5) Settings: iso200, 1/200, f5.6
6) Stack # : 150 images stacked in Helicon Focus
7) Lighting : 2 off-camera flashes
8) Location : Austin, TX
9) Editing in lightroom and photoshop
i noticed there are some focus stacking micro four-thirds shooters in here
i shot this longhorn beetle here in tres rios, cartago, costa rica with my lumix GH4 and olympus 60mm f/2.8 macro using the 4k post focus functionality of the camera to build the stack.....probably 100 images in the stack (i don't remember exactly) stitched together using helicon:
crimson fronted parakeet
this was shot here on the reserve where i live in tres rios, cartago, costa rica....he's a bird i rescued and i took this shot with my nikon D850 and 105mm micro nikkor f/2.8:
male caiman lizard
this was shot near dominical, costa rica with my nikon D750 and nikkor 300mm f/4 PF:
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Gender: MaleHometown: Chicago, IL
Home country: USA
Current location: Tres Rios, Cartago, Costa Rica
Member since: Sat Oct 3, 2020, 03:45 PM
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