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I had some short windows of time over the weekend to go out for a walk in the local streets and bushland and take some shots with the new lens.

I do understand the conditions weren’t ideal for photography – both days I was out just in the middle of the day on bright clear blue sky days so… hard raking shadows and no soft light shots here :). Sunday was also very windy so waiting for non swaying subjects was a test of patience 🙂

However all in all I was very happy with the performance of the lens and the results

Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

Saturday:

First some autumn colour – shot wide open at f/6.3 (290mm, 1/500 @ ISO 280)

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 290 mm, 1/500 sec at f/6.3, ISO 280

and a close up view on a tree which had lost almost all it’s leaves now – again wide open at f/6.3 (380mm, 1/500 @ ISO 220)

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 380 mm, 1/500 sec at f/6.3, ISO 220

the view of some of the tree’s down the street – 290mm, 1/500 @ f/8, ISO 720

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 290 mm, 1/500 sec at f/8, ISO 720

Some flower bokeh – again wide open at f/6.3 (340mm, 1/500 @ ISO 220). The flowerbed was all in a row with the harsh sun directly above and to the right slightly – in hindsight I should have moved closer to the main flower to put the rest of the flower background a little further out of the DOF

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 340 mm, 1/500 sec at f/6.3, ISO 220

Sunday:

Banksia Man – shadows and light – 290mm, 1/250 @ f/8, ISO 450

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 290 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 450

Bokeh test 🙂 – a miniature landscape – 210mm, 1/250 @ f/6, ISO 180

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 210 mm, 1/250 sec at f/6, ISO 180

Tree lichen set against the deep blue sky – 210mm, 1/250 @ f/6 @ ISO 100 & 170mm, 1/250 @ f/8 @ ISO 200

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 210 mm, 1/250 sec at f/6, ISO 100

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NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 170 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 200

and finally for the birders out there :). Note I’m not a bird nut (yet :)) so this is perhaps my first attempt and this waggy little thing flitted all about the place making him very difficult to track @ 500mm (I don’t know how you guys do it… sigh…) – still happy with the result and more so the detail in the feathers in the second shot even wide open (f/6.3) at full zoom (500mm)

500mm, 1/250 @ f/8, ISO 125

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 500 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 125

500mm, 1/800 @ f/6.3, ISO 320

NIKON D7000 + 50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3 @ 500 mm, 1/800 sec at f/6.3, ISO 320

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