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There are some scenes that a photo can't capture. Last spring, the couple of Tawny owls – Stix aluco – that lives around Petersplatz and the Botanical Garden raised at least one fledgling. Fujifilm X-T30 on a tripod, with the Fujinon 100-400 lens, no external microphone. The X-T30 worked really well, I think, even in …
Nelumbo nucifera (sooc, only cropped)
Nicandra physaloides Learned from Joe McNally: if I put the D5100 on center weighted metering the background gets brighter. The difference between spot metering and matrix metering seems to be quite small, though. Eschscholzia californica
Veratrum nigrum 20 h, available light, f1.8, 1/400, -1 AF: When using TTL, the Nikon D5100 can't synchronize faster than at 1/200, no high speed sync available. Solutions? Different camera or neutral density filter. The Triggertrap flash adapter doesn't help here. 20.54 h, f/1.8, 1/200, -4 AF, SB800 through umbrella camera left: 21.16 h, f/4.5, …
manu schwendener 