{"id":8434,"date":"2017-04-07T23:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2017-04-07T23:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:43:46","slug":"getting-creative-with-dragging-the-shutter-with-6-5ev-is-and-the-olympus-mzd-300mm-f4-lens-with-birds-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=8434","title":{"rendered":"Getting creative with dragging the shutter with 6.5EV IS and the Olympus mZD 300mm f\/4 lens with birds in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a touch bored last night as the sun set on another lovely Autumn day in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

\"sunset\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had been carrying my Olympus micro ZD 300mm f\/4 lens<\/a> and my Olympus mZD 40-150mm f\/2.8 lens<\/a> on two Olympus OM-D E-M1 camera bodies<\/a> for 3 hours as a walked around some old salt pan lakes.<\/p>\n

The sun had just set behind some dark clouds and the very skittish tiny robins were hopping along the track in front of me as I walked hungry and thirsty back to my car – always frustratingly keeping their distance well away from me – even for the 600mm super telephoto reach of this lens.<\/p>\n

So when I came across a heron I decided to try something different – drag the shutter and see how good the E-M1 Mark II’s IS works for panning.<\/p>\n

So here we have the same bird (I presume a heron) taking off and landing but in very different light angles as it flew 180 degrees around me.<\/p>\n

These are NOT meant to be sharp, documentary style shots of birds in flight but something a bit more abstract and arty – and I quite like what I achieved, and the AF was fast and the Olympus image stabilisation panned very well indeed!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"bird\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Above was shot at 1\/40th second hand held 600mm telephoto reach in full frame terms – rear feathers under the wing are still quite sharp despite the slow shutter speed and flight of the bird!<\/p>\n

\"bird\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This one was shot at 1\/10th sec – the panning lines are very straight – either I panned extremely smoothly or the IS worked very well to ignore my angular pan – anyway I quite like the effect – although there does seem to be the face of a demon here – an angel in wolf’s clothing perhaps?<\/p>\n

I suspect the vivid colours straight from the camera need a bit of subduing before it becomes wall art but it was a fun interesting little exercise – just don’t try this at home with your Canon or Nikon 600mm f\/4 lens – you will do yourself an injury!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a touch bored last night as the sun set on another lovely Autumn day in Melbourne. I had been carrying my Olympus micro ZD 300mm f\/4 lens and my Olympus mZD 40-150mm f\/2.8 lens on two Olympus OM-D E-M1 camera bodies for 3 hours as a walked around some old salt pan lakes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[375,450,18,241,14,397],"class_list":["post-8434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-300mm","tag-birds-in-flight","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-olympus-300mm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t