Posts Tagged “Tele-Astranar”
An American robin, searching for bugs, tosses a pile of moss out of the way as the sun sets over Kitimat, May 27, 2015. (Robin Rowland)
The sun was setting over my yard, and this robin swoops down and stops on the fence post, looking down at a pile of moss that has grown up in one corner.
The robin lands on the post, preparing to hunt for his sun set dinner. (Robin Rowland)
The robin explores the piles of moss that have grown up since winter. (Robin Rowland)
The robin picks up a pile of moss preparing to toss it out of the way of the bugs. (Robin Rowland)
All images taken with my 1960s vintage Tele-Astranar 400mm prime, with E-mount converter and my Sony Alpha 6000.
It’s been mostly a wet and foggy winter so far in Kitimat, known so far as Snow Valley. Looking out from my front window. I can see the low lying fog along the Kitimat River and Kitimat harbour, often totally obscuring Douglas Channel. Often the fog seems to hug the ground, meaning the tops of the conifers emerge from the fog to create a mysterious landscape. With the late December sun low in the southern sky, days before the Solstice, there is very little light. And as the headline indicates, under these conditions it’s hard to tell the difference between the original colour imagine and a black and white conversion.
The original colour image, using the cloudy white balance setting in Adobe Photoshop Raw. (Robin Rowland)
The black and white conversion. (Robin Rowland)
An original colour imagine of the trees in the fog, using the “as shot” setting in Adobe Photoshop Raw white balance.
The black and white conversion. (Robin Rowland)
Technical note. Sony Alpha 6000, using vintage Tele-Astranar 400mm F6.3 Prime telephoto, attached by an T-mount E-mount converter. ISO 4000 1/250 manual aperture f22.