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Mary Brown
{K:71879} 5/24/2007
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Excellent. The details are wonderful. His pose for you is great.
MAry
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KEVIN TEMPLE
{K:8657} 3/11/2007
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greaqt detail great shot well done
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Marcus Armani
{K:36599} 11/22/2006
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Is this the hawk i was standing 2 feet away from with 3 photogrphers cameras pointed at us and not one pic??? LOL , looks great pefect detail and exposure... Yamil was eating a snake?
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Janet Wechter
{K:2935} 11/21/2006
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Great catch light. Nice exposure. I just viewed Yamil's snake shot. Great piece of work to all of you.
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Robert Chin
{K:22282} 11/21/2006
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Awesome review Jinggoy,thanks much appreciated.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Robbie
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 11/20/2006
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Jinggoy! Awesome my old friend. Stunning clarity. 7/7
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Hesham Abouzekry
{K:15927} 11/20/2006
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more of wonderful portrait & details.
H.A
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Jinggoy Montenejo
{K:7736} 11/20/2006
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Hi Robbie, thanks for the message. Sorry I had not gotten back to you on this earlier.
Here are my thoughts on the two 400 mm lenses I was looking at :
Tokina 400mm 5.6
+ very light, short, easy to handhold for long periods.
+ ideal for hiking
+ excellent for landscape shots and macro use with extension tubes
+ very good with flare control - you can shoot directly at the sun and get minimal to no flares
- no focus limiter switch, this is a bummer for birds in flight as you know, you loose a lot of shots when this lens hunts (MA asks me if I'm a hunter or a photographer...LOL)
- doesn't do well for objects against bright light (i.e. birds in flight) - images tend to have significant chromatic abberations - those purple and dark spots)
- because of the aperture 5.6, it's best used at high ISO
- no VR, no internal motor, but the screw driven AF is still quicker than equivalent Nikon
- just sold this lens, you can get this used in the $200-250 range.
Sigma 400mm 5.6 (this lens)
+ relative to Tokina, it is longer and heavier, but still very good for handholding, AF a bit slower than Tokina maybe because of the bigger glass.
+ 77mm as opposed to Tokina's 72mm
+ it has a focus limiter switch - but AF is still slower than the Tokina IMO.
+ very good for landscapes and static objects.
+ less CA (compared to Tokina) but can get soft in poor light handheld
- just ok for birds in flight, i'm at 800-1000 ISO to get the shutter speed (similar to tokina).
- you can get sharp images only in very good light (like this image above), otherwise it is soft
- in cloudy conditions, this will probably still work at ISO 3200 but you'll loose the detail due to the noise..
- i'm keeping this lens until I have enough guts to tell the wife I'm getting a $5K lens (switch to canon 400mm IS DO or nikon 200-400mm F4)... LOL
- you can get this used in the $400-450 range
I have used the 300mm AFS with 1.4X (same as what you have), but did not like the TC just to get to 400mm, the Sigma 100-300mm F4, same thing, you need a TC to get to 400mm, the Nikon 80-400mm - very good quality compared to above lenses, but just tooo slooow....
Hope this helps Robbie- i think you can go with any lens for your bird shots and evaluate based on the images. The Tokina maybe a good start- you can sell it for same price as you bought it for... Good luck!
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Robert Chin
{K:22282} 11/20/2006
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Seemed you guys had a wonderful day shooting,excellent images all round.Will catch up later with all my back logs.
Excellent close up Jinggoy,the dof is very shallow thus bringing the eyes into prominence which is tack sharp.
How is this lens for in flight capture and the other one you were testing?
Sent the D70 to convert to IR but my compositionional skills will have to be at it`s peak for in flight capture,too bad I ain`t close by for some lessons!!!
Is this the lens
400 F5.6 SIGMA APO MACRO D TELE (77)
Take care
Robbie
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Geno Bisoni
{K:81} 11/20/2006
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I would like to say thank for your comment on my photograph especially after I seen your portfolio that was quite a honor thank u have a great day
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Alessandro Capelli
{K:34805} 11/19/2006
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WOW! Amazing! Great capture!
All the best!
Ale
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Heath Roberts
{K:289} 11/19/2006
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beautiful picture great job.
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Dan Wilson
{K:21104} 11/19/2006
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Great capture, lovely angle
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174169} 11/19/2006
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Fantastic hawk portrait, Jinggoy!:)
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Andrzej B.
{K:2244} 11/19/2006
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Very beautiful portrait of an amazing bird.
Tap
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Yamil Saenz
{K:12434} 11/19/2006
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Wowww Jinggoy,
The details are so amazing that I can perform a ocular fundus examination,LOL.
It's not very common to get that close from a Red-tailed Hawk, but this guy was very cooperative.
Take care buddy, I enjoyed shoting with You Marcus and Rich.
Yamil
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C.A. Mikulice
{K:13300} 11/19/2006
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marvelous shot, Jinggoy!
christine
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 11/19/2006
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Wowwwwwwwwww!!! Qué mirada!
No te descuides!!!
Felcitaciones , un retrato excepcional!
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