Spring in a nearby woods

[DanK]

Took a walk today in a nearby woods and took my camera for the first time in months. Took a number of images of spring, including these. The last has a few bugs that I didn't notice until I uploaded it.

These were an experiment: I left my tripod on my pack and used just the IBIS and lens IS, setting the shutter and aperture but setting ISO to auto. The Canon R6 II has a nifty mode that allows you to control ISO, shutter, and aperture all from within one mode.

[Round Tuit]

Three beautiful photos Dan. I particularly like the first for its simplicity.

You must have a steadier hand than I do because I could not pull those off hand held at 1/60 sec.

[DanK]

Andre,

Many thanks. The combination of IBIS and in-lens IS is pretty remarkable. Still, I had a LOT of discards because I'm not that that steady. The biggest problem was moving slightly backwards or forwards and slightly losing focus because IBIS does nothing to help with that. I experimented with putting the camera on servo AF, but that didn't reliably work because my macro lens isn't very fast-focusing. Having to position myself to get a reasonably flat subject and a reasonable background didn't help. Most of the time, I composed, figured out from that where I wanted the AF point, then went back into position.

Dan

[The amateur]

The last one is definitely the one I like the most because of the composition and colours.

Shaking hands a little bit is a common problem for people of a certain age. I shake more on the left side than on the right one, but I can almost always get enough steadiness to take good pictures. So far, so good !

As we know, when taking pictures with a shallow depth of field, this problem is critical and has to be solved somehow, such as leaning against a wall, holding our breath, tensing up a bit, or something else.

Great work, I really liked it.
Cheers !

[billtils]

Three beautiful photos Dan. I particularly like the first for its simplicity.

You must have a steadier hand than I do because I could not pull those off hand held at 1/60 sec.

You would with the IBIS that's in the current Canon and Nikon mirrorless (and probably others but these 2 are the only ones I have personal or other direct knowledge of).

[DanK]

And at least with Canon, the in-lens stabilization augments the IBIS. But again, movement forward and backward is a big deal at these close distances


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