Black Butcherbird / Cracticus quoyi
Well, this photo is what it is, basically it does not break three legs of a duck. It would have been more pleasant if I had checked my aperture before releasing the shutter (ƒ8 here). At ƒ5.6 @400mm with the 100-400L ➜ would have given a less present background, thus enhancing the subject. The framing in cons-diving is the most classic …
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Who said the 180L is a macro lens?
One of the photos taken for my friend Christoph Vogelbusch. Natural lighting for the main part, plus a flash triggering (@ -1 EV). Ok, I admit it, with such a Canon EF 180mm ƒ/3.5L Macro USM ➜, you’re not standing close to the subject, but… what a pleasure! About adjustments, I stuck with something natural, first because of the needs, also …
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Australian Wood Duck / Chenonetta jubata
From left to right then, the male and the female. I only get on try (3-4 pictures) with this one by chance successful. The ducks group took-off to join the other riverside, far away.
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Spiny-backed orb-weavers / Gasteracantha fornicata
A spider with unusual form “shield”, this species lives in Queensland, Australia. The picture is not exceptional, I didn’t want to use an higher ISO than 800 at 1/30th and +1EV (to light-up dark areas), and the environment was not the most stable, the spider web was moving in the slightest air movement. Thank you to Marion, Lionel and Yannick …
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Grey-headed Flying-foxes / Pteropus poliocephalus
That’s all, I’ve no more flying-foxes picture to post… at least flying ones! ^^ I personally don’t like this picture as much as my previous one, but she just offers me a tremendous flyby!
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Shield bug / Parent bug
Two images of a shield bug (Elasmucha grisea), results of a stack of multiple photos taken with different focus (focus stack).
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Manly shore
A picture that does not have much fancy, I admit very willingly, except the fact that visiting Manly was very nice and I wanted to share you this little piece of coast fairly typical of the place. I hope one day to have time to prepare a short video of that day. At the same time, Marion took this picture …
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Sydney Opera House
Very simple post-processing for this picture of the Opera taken at sunset: underexposure, strengthening of the black spot and cleaning of sensor dusts.
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“Welcome to the Jungle”
During a walk around Cairns, we went along this clearing. I was struck by the atmosphere that emanated from it: it was beautiful, quiet, without harsh and direct light from the sun, nature everywhere, much less human. And at the same time, images of the many inevitable movies about Vietnam and one begins to imagine the helicopters landing their people, …
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Painted Grasshawk – Neurothemis stigmatizans – Dragonfly @640mm
This dragonfly was shot using the Canon EF 100-400mm ƒ/4.5-5.6L IS USM handheld (on 7D, which explain the x1.6 crop ratio), while we were back from the Crystal Cascades, walking along Freshwater Creek.
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