I don’t normally do things like this, but last night thought I’d have a bit fun with Photoshop layering and turn my Dining Room into a Haunted Dining Room.
This photo is made up of 8 separate shots, one of the room without any chairs and then an individual photo for each chair and candlestick holder.
What you don’t see is how I got the chairs and candlestick holder to levitate. Simple, I held them there and then removed me out of each shot later in Photoshop.
A remote flash was used and is mounted high up above the camera.
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I was up before sunrise on Sunday as the weather forecast looked promising and decided to go off in search of some Little Owls.
There are a couple of locations that I’m aware of inside the grounds of Calke Abbey in Staffordshire, however, no matter how far I walked, how long I waited and how much time I strained my eyes through binoculars, they decided to not to show themselves.
However, all was not lost as I could clearly hear the Red and Fallow Deer Stags bellowing across the entire estate so I made my way to the enclosure to capture the following photos.
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As the sky was clear tonight, I thought I’d try a moon shot with the 500mm and teleconverter to see how much quality was lost.
I first tried it with the 2x converter (TC-20eiii) to give a whopping 1000mm but didn’t like the final outcome as I thought it looked too soft. This photo was taken with the 1.7x converter (TC-17eii) and it was a little better.
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Waxing Gibbous (68%) – D810, AF-S 500mm f/2.8 with TC-17e II @ 850mm, f/8, ISO64, 1/60sec – {Flickr Link}
Lenses can be an expensive outlay that luckily, in most instances, return value when you come to sell them on and therefore are investments that need looking after. In my case, I not only wanted to protect my lenses but also blend in with the environment when photographing wildlife.
I trawled the internet and stumbled across Outdoor Photography Gear Ltd at www.outdoorphotographygear.co.uk and thought that their prices were very reasonable and so I bought my first lens cover for my newly acquired Nikon 300mm f/2.8 lens.
If all you want to know is what I think of them, since that purchase quite a few months ago, I now have 6 different lens covers! I think that sums it up!
Outdoor Photography Gear Ltd have many different lens covers available for many different manufacturers, they also offer various different camouflage and non-camouflage patterns. Just for the balance of my review, I have no connection with Outdoor Photography Gear Ltd and these are simply just my findings.
The photo below shows my lenses and teleconverters with their covers fitted. As a complete coincidence, I recently purchased a 2nd hand Nikon 500mm f/4 VR lens and it came with an Outdoor Photography Gear lens cover already fitted.
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Outdoor Photography Lens Covers
Left to Right, Back to Front
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/4G ED VR
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm F/2.8 ED VRII
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm F/2.8 ED VRII
Nikon Nikkor TC-17E II – 1.7x
Nikon Nikkor TC-20E III – 2.0x
UPDATE: I now also have a cover for my Nikon Nikkor TC-14E III
Nothing to see here, just some Black & White Sheep for the fun of it!
I was waiting on the edge of a field as I could hear Barn Owls in a nearby forest, they didn’t show themselves, but I did have a large flock of Sheep watching me and as the light was fading quick I thought I’d snap some shots to convert to Black & White.
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All day today the light was beautiful, until I decided to go out to one of the local nature reserves and it went very overcast and almost dark.
I was determined to get something though, there were Grey Squirrels everywhere and I managed to get a shot of this little guy foraging around. It’s not super sharp as it was tough to try and freeze him running around with only 1/125sec shutter speed but (for me anyway) it’s a keeper as I like the framing the ferns gave the photo.
On the way back to the car, I was getting blitzed by discarded Acorn shells as I walked through the forest!
{Click image for a higher resolution, click Flickr Link in caption to view photo on Flickr} Grey Squirrel – D810, AF-S 500mm f/4 @ 500mm, f/4.5, ISO1250, 1/125sec – {Flickr Link}
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