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Visit to the zoo

19 January 2012 / Delayedflight posted in Australia, Photography, Wildlife / No Comments

Last week I went for the first time in a while to the National Zoo and Aquarium, Canberra’s own little piece of animal heaven. It was an opportunity for me to give the Tamron 70-200 a good workout and get in some animal shots.
Unfortunately for me my laziness for not going the previous day had penalised me with the lack of big cats since they were all hiding in the shade from the sweltering sun.
Luckily I was able to get some good reptile shots and managed to get really close to get a few portraits of the Wallabies in the native animals display. Anyway I won’t bore you with more talk, enjoy the photos and if you like them leave a comment.

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New Years Eve Concerts 2012

9 January 2012 / Delayedflight posted in Australia, Events, Live Music, New Years Eve, Photography / No Comments

This new years eve I went out to photograph Ian Moss who was performing that night. He was the headlining act but before that local band Bridge Between were performing covers and their own original songs.
It was fortunate that I got there early and found a decent spot to photograph from because as Bridge Between was starting to finish up the spots near the crowd barriers were getting packed. Anyway the night was great, I got to enjoy music, watch two fireworks displays and gave my camera a good thrashing.

This was the second occasion I was able to put the Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 to work, it performed okay for the night but as I found the lack of stabilisation made getting shots a bit less comfortable requiring more energy on my part to keep the camera and lens pushed against my face to reduce camera shake. Auto-focus was a bit on the slow side but kept up with what was happening.
One thing I can’t fault with this lens is the image quality the shots that I got were tack sharp though it was showing a quite a bit of aberrations wide open. Despite the slower autofocus, lack of stabilisation it performed admirably and produced the goods.

Anyway here are the fruits of my labor enjoy!

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Thunderstruck Kickboxing Fight Night

30 December 2011 / Delayedflight posted in Photography, Sports / No Comments

Earlier this month I went to a fight night (yes that one I talked about in my last post) and these were the photos that resulted. Overall I am fairly happy with the shots that resulted. Though I had a few handling issues with the Tamron 70-200 on an ungripped D7000.
Hopefully this should be remedied as I have a new grip which should make the camera less front heavy. Anyway enough of me rambling feel free to browse the slightly large set.
Enjoy!

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I am Nikon and have night vision.

8 December 2011 / Delayedflight posted in Live Music, Photography / No Comments

Alright, I’ve been a bit behind on updates. But here’s what has been happening lately. After owning my K-7 for 2+ years now it’s time for an upgrade so I took the plunge, bought myself a secondhand Nikon D7000 and Tamron 70-200 f/2.8.
The main reasons for purchasing the D7000 was for improved AF performance and better low light performance.

I took out the camera for it’s first real outing last week to photograph a local band playing at a bar. Needless to say the lighting conditions were abysmal and I found myself shooting at ISO 12600 for more or less the whole time.
I was very surprised as to how much detail was retained and the minimal noise reduction required to get usable photographs. I’ve also got photos from a kickboxing fight night to process, so keep an eye or follow me on twitter to get the latest updates.
Anyway, enjoy the set and as always feel free to leave a comment if you like what you see.