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Photo of the Day December 2021
- Thread starter Hughmac
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Did it eat too many nuts? !
All December squirrels photos are really cute, you could have a weekly squirrel contest ?
As everyone is in a squirrel mood
I am adding one from last year, during the lockdown, when squirrels started to come closer to the houses.
The local bus station in my hometown of Umeå, Sweden.
iPhone 13 Pro Max, Pixelmator Photo.
This is about as exciting as it gets during the winter here, farmland and snow covered fields. Haha.
A slightly reduced version of my new desktop image. Yes I played with it a bit.
Lumix ZS200
Lumix ZS200
a slight bend of the rules today; two photos and one of them not even mine. but a good case study of "what you see" vs "what i see" and that how gear doesn't matter until it does.
my husband sent me a photo of a fox hanging out in the empty lot this morning next to us while i was driving the kids to school. when i got home 45 minutes later, it was still there napping. although he doesn't care a lick about taking good photos on his own, he does try to scout good photo ops for me. ?
his photo taken on his iPhone 8, mine taken on my Z6ii with the Sigma 150-600 Contemporary at 600mm. his photo isgreat (eta: okay, mediocre) to show anyone that he saw a fox. my photo great to show what a fox looks like.
iso 1250 | f/6.3 | 1/400
sorry for missing the squirrel parade, but i like foxes better. ?
my husband sent me a photo of a fox hanging out in the empty lot this morning next to us while i was driving the kids to school. when i got home 45 minutes later, it was still there napping. although he doesn't care a lick about taking good photos on his own, he does try to scout good photo ops for me. ?
his photo taken on his iPhone 8, mine taken on my Z6ii with the Sigma 150-600 Contemporary at 600mm. his photo is
iso 1250 | f/6.3 | 1/400
sorry for missing the squirrel parade, but i like foxes better. ?
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Cute Fox and Squirrels ... I see a rescued cat
taken with my first iPhone, a 6SPlus
I put up the dish for the squirrel to keep him off the bird feeder, but birds wanted revenge.
iPhone 12P at full 10x zoom, so not as sharp as the squirrel picture, couldn't get close before it flew off.
Your hubby's image with the washed colors and the lattice fence could have been a good art print with a little post processing.a slight bend of the rules today; two photos and one of them not even mine. but a good case study of "what you see" vs "what i see" and that how gear doesn't matter until it does.
my husband sent me a photo of a fox hanging out in the empty lot this morning next to us while i was driving the kids to school. when i got home 45 minutes later, it was still there napping. although he doesn't care a lick about taking good photos on his own, he does try to scout good photo ops for me.
his photo taken on his iPhone 8, mine taken on my Z6ii with the Sigma 150-600 Contemporary at 600mm. his photo isgreat(eta: okay, mediocre) to show anyone that he saw a fox. my photo great to show what a fox looks like.
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iso 1250 | f/6.3 | 1/400
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sorry for missing the squirrel parade, but i like foxes better.
I saw a YouTube vid on Sigma Deutschland (German language) I believe they took the Sigma 150-600 to the Antarctica. Great pics. Though the lens they used appeared to have a push-pull zoom, may have been a different animal.
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actually mine does have a push/pull zoom, which i never noticed before. but it's a lot slower than using the focusing ring. but this explains why it always zooms to 600mm if i don't lock it.
There are two versions of this lens, the Contemporary, which I have, and is more affordable, and the Sport which is more expensive, but somehow better. I don't use this lens often enough to justify more money on it, and I've been satisfied with the images I get from it.
From Photography Life:
Just to complete the picture: Tamron has also a 150-600/5-6.3 zoom.
The squirrel posted today was taken on D500 (which I mostly use for animal and action pictures) with such a Tamron 150-600 at 550mm f6.3 handheld.