I've also been playing with my new Canon 2x extender II. On the end of my 70-200mm 2.8 L IS lens, it gets me to 400mm, which is really the minimum focal length you need for wild birds, unless you plan to spend a lot of time stalking and sitting in hides. I popped down to the harbour the other day and took some shots of the shags that hang out at the Sea Scout boatshed. I used to dislike shags. I thought they were reptilian with those snake-like necks, but now I think they're rather handsome birds. There's no denying they're characters.
The extender is a little soft wide open, but gives nice results from f/8 to f/16. The day I shot this was pretty dark, so I had the ISO cranked up to 1600 creating a bit of grain but I'm fairly happy and looking forward to what else I can get with my lens and extender combo.
I like the bigger sized photos but am finding the black background makes some of the text hard to read when using a laptop on battery power. I have changed the settings but it's still the same. Can you play with the background colour to bring it down a notch or too?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback. I'm going to stick with black to keep the pictures popping, but have enlarged the font size. Hope this helps.
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