Ben
July 15th, 2003, 08:25 AM
These shots were taken from a game hide, in a game park called MKUZE.
The hide itself is actually in the middle of the watering hole, one walks via a catwalk to the hide.
I have various lenses: 28-105 f4.5 (Nikon), 70-300 f4.5(Nikon)
170-500 f6.3 (Sigma)
I used the 170-500 for all the shots. The animals were no futher than about 10m (30ft). (70-300 was just to short for proper viewfinder filling)
- 128Mb CF card, with the setting on STD for color/tone/sharpness.
- Auto focus selected
- P mode selected
- Centre weight and spot metering. (3D matrix seems to under expose allot)
- 1/2 stop under exposure (pitty 1/3 stops aren`t available)
- 3400x2000 (cant remember the exact dpi settings 3rd highest setting)
More on montage
These images are NOT digitally manipulated, accept for contrast and cropping (No funny stuff like animals added digitally or backgrounds added etc....)
- The 4 female and the centre male deer are called NYALA,
I shot all my the pictures on 400 ASA setting, resting the lens on edge of the hide. The shutter speeds were quite high, better than 1/350 to about 1/1000, depending on the angle of the sun.
- I stopped down the Giraffes reflection, for that extra depth of field (D.O.F. preview is one of my most used features--- apart from the HISTOGRAM).
I found that because of the 1/2 stop under xp. I lost some contrast and pushed it a little in P.Shop.E (magic of digital)
I have some more exelent pic of other animals as well, trying my hand at some creative flash photography with the NIKON SPEEDLIGHT SB-50DX (the people were anoid though and some of the animals got a fright)
I still have get to know the camera in certain situations, although I have shot close to 1500 frameas the past 2 months of owner ship...
**** One of the biggest issues I have with the S2Pro is the noisy mirror 'clang' each shutter release. At a waterhole this proved annoing, especially when "people-are-in-very-silent- mode" . I have a F80 as well and the mechanism is smooth as butter, and half as noisy (3db less) than the S2. Why its like that only FUJI must know :-(
The hide itself is actually in the middle of the watering hole, one walks via a catwalk to the hide.
I have various lenses: 28-105 f4.5 (Nikon), 70-300 f4.5(Nikon)
170-500 f6.3 (Sigma)
I used the 170-500 for all the shots. The animals were no futher than about 10m (30ft). (70-300 was just to short for proper viewfinder filling)
- 128Mb CF card, with the setting on STD for color/tone/sharpness.
- Auto focus selected
- P mode selected
- Centre weight and spot metering. (3D matrix seems to under expose allot)
- 1/2 stop under exposure (pitty 1/3 stops aren`t available)
- 3400x2000 (cant remember the exact dpi settings 3rd highest setting)
More on montage
These images are NOT digitally manipulated, accept for contrast and cropping (No funny stuff like animals added digitally or backgrounds added etc....)
- The 4 female and the centre male deer are called NYALA,
I shot all my the pictures on 400 ASA setting, resting the lens on edge of the hide. The shutter speeds were quite high, better than 1/350 to about 1/1000, depending on the angle of the sun.
- I stopped down the Giraffes reflection, for that extra depth of field (D.O.F. preview is one of my most used features--- apart from the HISTOGRAM).
I found that because of the 1/2 stop under xp. I lost some contrast and pushed it a little in P.Shop.E (magic of digital)
I have some more exelent pic of other animals as well, trying my hand at some creative flash photography with the NIKON SPEEDLIGHT SB-50DX (the people were anoid though and some of the animals got a fright)
I still have get to know the camera in certain situations, although I have shot close to 1500 frameas the past 2 months of owner ship...
**** One of the biggest issues I have with the S2Pro is the noisy mirror 'clang' each shutter release. At a waterhole this proved annoing, especially when "people-are-in-very-silent- mode" . I have a F80 as well and the mechanism is smooth as butter, and half as noisy (3db less) than the S2. Why its like that only FUJI must know :-(