Spotted the little thing running about the garden so busted out the sigma 150-500 and wound it round to 500mm.. seem quite soft focus at 100% but zoomed out they look ok. Heavy lens and freezing cold meant i wasnt exactly holding it steady.


IMG_0689 by Adam Woodford, on Flickr


IMG_0664 by Adam Woodford, on Flickr


IMG_0594 by Adam Woodford, on Flickr


IMG_0629 by Adam Woodford, on Flickr


IMG_0656 by Adam Woodford, on Flickr


IMG_0577 by Adam Woodford, on Flickr
Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom.. yeah we threw some bread out for the birds..

Full set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12512629@N07/sets/72157625784610788/

Hand held? Theyre pretty impressive and not that soft tbh, not as soft as the Sigma 70-300mm I have!

indeed i had to get out quick as i wasnt sure how long it would be about, so i was out with bare feet and no jumper/coat, no time to get the monopod out or anything. Luckily its an OS lens, without that i think they would have been really bad shots.

I have cropped them a little but nothing else, might have a play with the RAW files later.

Nice, really like the 3rd one, parts of the bread are slightly over exposed but that's easy'll forgiven given the circumstances, give it a little bit of playing about with in photoshop and that should look great.  Not a bad lens if it can do that produce those sorts of shots without a tripod.