{"id":21926,"date":"2014-11-02T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=21926"},"modified":"2014-11-02T01:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T00:17:31","slug":"up-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/up-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still playing around with the 7D Mark II and spent some time today calibrating the 400mm lens, which had felt a bit soft. I’d had to do the same with the previous camera and my method of calibrating is none too exact, though making the in-camera adjustments is easy. It may take me a few attempts to get the lens working to its maximum capability. That said, the settings are not too far off. <\/p>\n

The first sequence (with the uncalibrated 400mm lens) is a sparrowhawk flying over the garden this morning, startling (but not attacking) a small flock of starlings.<\/p>\n

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The sparrowhawk flies close to the starlings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The starlings wheeled away. The sparrowhawk was searching, but not hunting. It hung over the garden for a while longer.<\/p>\n

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The next shot, of a helicopter, was taken with the 100-400mm lens.<\/p>\n

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Now a herring gull (I’d calibrated the 400mm lens by this point and was using the 1.4 extender).<\/p>\n

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There’s one other regular feature in the sky that is hard to miss. It appeared mid to late afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Moon before nightfall – 400mm lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And it was still there tonight. <\/p>\n

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Moon after dark – 400mm lens + 1.4x extender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II. Lenses are the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM and Canon EF 1.4xIII extender as indicated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still playing around with the 7D Mark II and spent some time today calibrating the 400mm lens, which had felt a bit soft. I’d had to do the same with the previous camera and my method of calibrating is none too exact, though making the in-camera adjustments is easy. It may take me a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1101,1031,128,989,3],"tags":[1100,1102,1158,38,1154,168],"class_list":["post-21926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-helicopter","category-moon-landscape-2","category-sparrowhawk","category-water-birds-birds-2","category-wildlife","tag-canon-eos-7d-mark-ii","tag-helicopter-2","tag-herring-gull","tag-moon","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-starlings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}