Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
1/180 f8 with on-board flash
ISO 400
This one was captured through the front window with flash on a gray, rainy day—not the best conditions, but acceptable.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Hummer No. 1
Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
1/180 f8 with on-board flash
ISO 400
This one was captured through the front window with flash on a gray, rainy day—not the best conditions, but acceptable.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Sunset 5/27/15
Pentax K-5
Sigma 18-250 at 18mm
1/80 sec. f8
ISO 400
The best of the sunsets won't be here until August, when summer storm cloud formations in the evening add considerable moodiness to the sky, but this late May lakescape isn't bad.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Birch owl
Pentax K-5
Sigma 18-250 at 31mm
1/500 sec. f8
ISO 6400
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
1/60 sec. f8
ISO 400
There's a lot wrong with this shot. Too much clutter from the feeders, for instance. But the pose of the grosbeak is lovely, so I'm calling this a keeper. Someone with better Photoshop skills could probably eliminate the clutter.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Blue Jay
Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
1/160 sec. f8
ISO 800
It was a gray, overcast evening and I was shooting handheld through a plate glass window at high ISO and a slow shutter speed, but in my opinion this turned out to be an acceptable although unexciting photo.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Goldfinches
Both photos:
Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
Top: 1/400 sec. f6.7
Bottom: 1/250 sec. f6.7
The birds were in deep shade, so I opened the aperture on the F* 300 to the full f4.5 (the teleconverter results in loss of one f/stop, resulting in f/6.7 on the camera). The results were pleasingly sharp.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
1/320 f6.7
ISO 400
The numbers of different species at our feeders are beginning to increase as the weather improves, but I was lucky to capture this nuthatch in the instant he alighted on a suet feeder and immediately took off for other parts. The little birds never sit still for their portraits.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Chipping Sparrow
Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
1/1000 sec/ f8
ISO 800
Chippies are common around our cabin feeders but often prefer to forage for spilled seed in the grass underneath them while goldfinches and siskins battle it out for space on the perches.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Purple Finch
Pentax K-3
Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (420mm)
1/400 sec. f8
ISO 800
I had to kick up the ISO in order to get sufficient shutter speed to capture this outlier in the horde of pine siskins that settled upon our feeders yesterday. A little work with Lightroom smoothed out the resultant noise.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Pine Siskin
Pentax K-3
Pentax F* 300mm f4.5 plus Pentax HD 1.4x teleconverter (720mm)
1/400 sec. f8
ISO 400
Our cabin in the woods seems to have become Siskin Central, with dozens upon dozens of the little finches on the feeders and the ground underneath scrabbling for seed. I was pleased with the performance of the 420mm handheld lens combination and its photo quality, which held up despite a heavy crop of the image.
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