There were two very different types of bird that I photographed on Saturday at Blashford Lakes. First, there was the posing and singing Robins. They are plentiful at the reserve at the moment, and will tolerate the closeness of camera wielding humans like no other bird I know. Which was good as I was trialing out a 2x converter and 300mm F4 IS combination for the first time. The results
I got another Canon extender last week – a 2x mk III, so I had to go try it out. As I already had a 1.4x extender mk III, I read you could stack them to even further increase the range of the lens. You need a Canon 12mm extension tube to stack the mark III extenders. So with my 500mm and a tripod I had to have a play
Although the winter weather has not been kind recently when out at the weekends, I have managed to find a couple of outings which yielded some reasonable photographic results. The first of these was an almost fruitless trip to Middlebere, on the opposite side of the Arne RSPB Nature reserve. Fruitless as nothing came close to the hide for photographic purposes until late on when a Little Egret appeared up
I recently purchased my first full frame digital Camera, and with good weather at the weekend it was time to try it out with my Canon 500mm Lens and another recent purchase a used Canon 100-400mm IS v1 lens. I am impressed with the noise handling of this camera – especially when comapring it with my Canon 760D. Up to about 3200 the shots reveal very little noise, even when
