Posted on May 27, 2016 By Michael Griffiths
It was a beautiful morning on the marsh today and the Riverside Pasture was buzzing with insects, particularly damselflies and green-veined white butterflies. I had one camera with me: my Canon 7D with a Sigma 150-500mm telephoto lens fitted. So I used the combination to photograph and video some of the insects.
The Canon and Sigma combination has a bit of weight to it, and I haven’t yet mastered the art of keeping it still whilst videoing handheld.
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Beautiful! I have found a few along the canal path recently 🙂
Thank you. It’s their time, Sarah.
It is indeed and I love them! I have managed to photograph them and a female orange-tip but not the male which just refuses to settle anywhere I see them.
The warmer the weather, the more active they are.
Indeed!! They’re all in hiding this week though 🙁 Actually so am I!!
Beautiful butterfly.
I had that same lens (before I sold it 20 months ago and I found the weight didn’t take long to get used to. In fact once I got used to it, I found the weight help me to stop wobbling (which now stops me from using my little Point & Shoot camera – I can’t hold it still at all).
Thanks Vicky. Perhaps you should have held onto your Sigma 150-500mm lens to take advantage of photo opportunities through your windows.
Yes, it would have been wonderful to have it now that I’ve moved to this 3rd floor apartment, but when I sold the lens, I was never to know that I was going to move. At the time, my lower back pain was so bad, I really needed a lighter camera so sold the Sigma to fund the new purchase. Then a month after I bought the new Sony ‘mirrorless’, my (rented) flat was sold and I had to find somewhere else to live. I notice there’s a Sigma 150-600mm now. When you live in rented apartments, you never know where your life will lead you and when you’ll end up moving to a totally different environment.
Lovely detail!
Thanks Belinda. I think there is plenty of room for improvement.