Wow, love the house in the valley in #1. Imagine having to worry about rivers and volcanos.
They are actually very good! Excellent indeed, and I don't think the Scotch had any detriment at all. In fact, maybe that's your secret weapon ;)
Great set! How was the 50th anniversary? I'm going to have to try this place out. All my years living in the philly area, I never knew this existed!
One Rude Dawg wrote:
To late, I live north of Cda, the area is the fastest growing in the US right now. Just down the road a new house is being sold at 1.2 million. Giant infestation of Californians, not enough can be said about them. They love it here but want to make it just like the place they couldn't get away from fast enough.
Yeah they didn't like our rental car cali plates. I'm like, dude, stop! I'm more rural than you in PA!
I understand as I lived in Denver in the 90's and the californians moved in.......
Thanks, on Canfield trail you can see Montana to your left and Washington State to your right. Took us 3 hours 45 min. to go almost 5 miles round trip. Brutal hike...on all fours ascending to the summit....we had no business being up there in our running shoes!
Our friend and fellow hedgehog member Regis (Regis Tolbert) recommended I check out Fernan Lake in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho while my family was on vacation last week. Thank you Regis! A beautiful area of the country that no one knows about. Let's keep it that way! Our rental car had California plates.....whoops!
We hiked a lot of trails, ending the week with Canfield Mountain Natural Trail.
The last two are cell phone pics.
Fernan Lake Tree Swallow
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Wood Duck at Fernan Lake
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Canfield Mountain Summit 2000+ ft vertical hike
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Lake Coeur d'Alene from Canfield Mountain Summit
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yeah, I like everything about it. Light, shadows, B&W, grain, angle. That turn at the end.....
Cleaned up well for ISO 5000! Very nice!
Sony a1 with FE 135mm GM f1.8 @ ISO 200
50 MP download. Animal Eye AF. Just a sliver of DOF!
Nalu wrote:
I completely understand the pain in deleting perfectly good, sharp, images. But considering I had to delete 199 shots out of 200 with my Canon gear because the images weren't sharp, having 200 good ones is a good problem to have. And thanks for the comment on the "eye" af. The frame rate and the eye af are the main reasons I plan on picking up one. But the sensor is nothing to sneeze at. I'm just having problems parting with the $6500. I need to sell some gear in order to justify it.
Have fun and look forward to seeing more of your images.
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I did sell a bunch of gear to get this
Nalu wrote:
Nice series. I wouldn't expect anything less from this body and you're images verify the capabilities of the 200-600. There are several reasons why I am seriously considering getting a copy of this body, but one of the most compelling for me is the eye af for birds. I would be curious whether you were using this feature for these shots. Congratulations on your purchase. I'm guessing your are pretty happy!
Yes, I had the bird eye AF on and was shooting in zone AF.
The good thing about eye AF is it will lock on the eye even if the eye is outside the focus area selected. You can see when it locks on while shooting, but I'm not sure if it did or not on this set. I was so surprised he showed up, I had no idea what was going on in the viewfinder. I just kept telling myself, "don't clip the wings"....
And I was shooting compressed RAW which gave me 30 FPS, so with this set I deleted 200+ perfect images. That's the only thing...they are all good, so it takes forever to pick the winners. And feels so bad when you have to delete the others.