After 2 weeks of sitting in a box the new 500mm f/4 L got to take a trip for some shooting. It was a lonely place - 5 photographers, a buncha geese and a buncha ducks - and colder than everyone expected. It was the type of morning that looks beautiful through a window. But I braved it, and went out, and didn't really get much for my troubles.
Oh, I woulda have had some fantastic shots if the birds had cooperated. I got a great series of a mallard taking off, all wonderfully crisp and bang-on - but it's head was in complete shadow from the wing in every shot. I got some wonderful shots of a goose couple, but the female was in the male's shadow the whole time, and looks like a black blob - definitely a sharp blob, but a blob. The RWBs were always on the wrong side of the dike so they were backlit by the early morning sun. Even the Better Beamer couldn't save those shots.
But it was a beautiful freaking morning just the same. Today was the first day with the new lens and the first time I've been out shooting in 63 days. It felt good!
So the shots I did manage to capture correctly....
The Three Tenors pounded out a medley of songs from Duckoletto:
The fans did not go wild...
And a goose got to his seat halfway through the show...
It was a noisy morning...
You must have been very pleased with the results and your new lens after such a long period of abstinence.
,nice one.
