Merry Christmas!

Gallery: AvianPosted December 24, 2011136 views6 comments

Hello all!
Here is a Chickadee I photographed this morning. For Christmas my parents helped me fund the last part of the 500mm f/4 I've been saving up for! So now I have a used (but new to me!) 500mm to use! I'm SO excited! So anyhow, this was one of my first shots with it. This was handheld as I do not yet have a gimbal head and I don't trust my existing tripod head with this lens. I learned how heavy these lenses really are after an hour and a half of handholding it!
So if anyone has a gimbal head they don't need I'd love to take it off your hands! (For a reasonable price of course!)

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Chanukah!

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Tech Specs:
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS
ISO 800
f/5.6
1/400 sec

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Terry Sohl on December 24, 2011 at 11:58 AM

Very nice, with some terrific Christmas colors in the background!! I really like it.

As for your Christmas "present"....I NEED SOMEONE TO FUND ONE FOR ME!!!! Sigh. Someday.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 513 Posts, 6889 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on December 24, 2011 at 12:53 PM

Congrats on the lens. A nice eay to start with it.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on December 24, 2011 at 8:10 PM

This is a good beginning with the new lens. Nice exposure and background. I'm sure you're going to love that glass as I do mine but if you're like me it'll take a while to really get the hang of it. Congrats and have fun with it!

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on December 24, 2011 at 8:30 PM

A simply beautiful chickadee portrait Cam. Congrats on the new lens

Looks like you will put it to great use.

Ken Archer

Registered on October 28, 2004, 222 Posts, 6683 Comments

Comment posted by Cam Held on December 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM

Thank you everybody!
Terry- It was a long time in the making... I've been saving up for almost four years. Hope you'll get one soon!

Ron- It is definitely a struggle so far, but a worthwhile struggle! Those few photos that actually turn out are worth all the struggle with camera shake, weight...

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on December 25, 2011 at 8:04 PM

Congrats on the new lens....I also bought mine used and could not be happier with it. When you find a way to stabilize it, you're gonna grin from ear to ear when you see how many more keepers you get! Santa lives! Merry Christmas to you! Sharon

Registered on November 1, 2003, 392 Posts, 4810 Comments