Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love you, Tomorrow. It is only a day away.
I am singing....woo hoo. Just ordered my 7D and my 300mm lens and the EF1.4III extender and spare battery and I get them tomorrow.
Fabulous as I got them from WEX and got a bundles deal which they have been awaiting stock on for the last fortnight and the stock came in today.
I have one question about my order. I know some people use a lens filter to protect their lens and some hate them. I want one just to protect the lens until I get used to it. It was really hard choosing one and I ended up getting this one as WEX had it on offer with the 300mm lens.
http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-kenko-67mm-pro1-digital-uv-filter/p1527988
If you guys think there is a better one that you recommend I shall order the new one. I have not got a clue on lens filters.
I am so jet lagged as we arrived home yesterday at 3pm after a 5 hour delay and 2 flights. It was such a fantastic holiday and as most of you know I did manage to get some quite nice shots of the local hummingbirds. I have to admit that I was pretty cheesed off with the Fuji as it kept overheating, would not focus, and it took an eternity to store pictures so I missed a massive amount of action with the hummers. Also my lens distortion was horrendous and every photo I had to edit to compensate this. I do wish that I had the new Canon gear with me as I know my photos would have been so much better but saying that the humidity was horrendous and it was so hot that I could only stand out for about half an hour before the heat got to me. Although Barbados is a very safe island I know I would have been too nervous with fabulous gear to stand in the isolated spot where I took most of my photos.
Now be fair Doggie, it isn't in a display cabinet - it's standing on a tripod in front of the window where everyone can admire it :-)
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Ah, but she needs to draw the blinds otherwise nobody can see it.
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She's probably been distributing flyers to ensure a good crowd.
Isn't that just typical? Lots of hardware and nowt to photograph! You might have to resort to long distance flowers!
Ah well now, we should all have some good stuff to look forward to - if you're getting pictures like that in such far from ideal photography conditions, we'll be expecting some truly awesome shots in the future! :-)
Nah, I think the hoverflies have been 'shopped onto the flower Doggie :-)
Stunning detail and colour, Lolly.
I just tried pulling it onto the laptop to see about tweaks, but the screen's not good enough. Which in itself is complimentary - I need the big calibrated monitor to see that amount of detail! I'm off upstairs to switch on the big desktop....
Even on the big monitor, I can't do much with that Lolly, looks pretty darn good :-) This will probably look worse anyway, what with our 4MB limit!
Hang on.... No, sorry, that just won't wash. Surely if he was whirring it faster he'd be turning right? Unless he's back-pedalling? Huh, what use is the pic if you can't work out if the wing's spinning backwards or forwards? :-)