Birds with M.Zuiko 40-150 f2.8 pro + MC-14

Finally getting out and doing some serious birding since my Fz18 days and now with E-M1 with a Oly 40-150 f2.8 pro and teleconverter.
I'm Finding the lens more enjoyable each time I take it out. I bought this for general wildlife and as a bird fill until the 300 f4 comes out and find it pretty handy as a walk around sneaking up to birds. I'm not one who likes to carry a tripod or hide in a hide so the focal range may be a little short for small birds most the time but that's what makes it fun for me.
Here is just a handful of bird photo's iv'e taken recently with the 40-150 pro. I have seriously lagged behind sorting my photos out but eventually i'll start playing with my raws more often. these are just quickly PP from the JPEG in PS but I always shoot in RAW + JPEG.

Enjoy

Laughing Kookaburra

Red-rumped Parrot

Eastern Yellow Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Female Superb fairy Wren

Rainbow Lorikeet 100% crop

Beautiful series Vass. Been eyeing that lens for a while but waiting for the 300/4.0 like you for birding and close ups. Have you tried the DTC witi the 40-150/2.8 + MC-14? That will be roughly 800 @ F4. If so, how is the IQ? If the IQ is more than good enough, I just might get the 40-150/2.8 + MC-14

Again, beautiful series and thanks for sharing.

Thanks. It takes a little practice and patience but definetly pays off at times

Skeeterbytes wrote:

Well done, all of them. You have a great ability to get close to your subjects!

Cheers,

Rick

Thanks.

I have tried it with the 60mm f2.8 macro for birds and insects but found the fine detail a little to blurry for my liking so I never really attempted it on the 40-150 pro with TC

rgs_45 wrote:

Beautiful series Vass. Been eyeing that lens for a while but waiting for the 300/4.0 like you for birding and close ups. Have you tried the DTC witi the 40-150/2.8 + MC-14? That will be roughly 800 @ F4. If so, how is the IQ? If the IQ is more than good enough, I just might get the 40-150/2.8 + MC-14

Again, beautiful series and thanks for sharing.

Very well done! The fairy wrench and the loriked are superb.

Nice assortment of birds for walking around. Are you satisfied with the OOF rendering from the lens/converter combo?

I've gotten some where the OOF area looks smooth, but more often than not, the OOF area looks distracting.

Maybe I added too much clarity or contrast in processing, but the background doesn't appeal to me here.

I do like the smooth background here. The cardinal was much closer to me than the blue jay, which helped blur the background more.

Both were shot with the 40-150 2.8 and MC-14.

I think my 100-300mm lens produced smoother looking OOF areas than the 40-150mm 2.8/MC-14 combo.

I wonder what others think.

Michael

I honestly can't say I get distracting background much myself. Maybe it's because I like to shoot f5.6, f5.0 at times which shows the background more clearly but still blurred, I rarely shoot at f4 unless I really need the extra shutter speed

vass wrote:

Finally getting out and doing some serious birding since my Fz18 days and now with E-M1 with a Oly 40-150 f2.8 pro and teleconverter.
I'm Finding the lens more enjoyable each time I take it out. I bought this for general wildlife and as a bird fill until the 300 f4 comes out and find it pretty handy as a walk around sneaking up to birds. I'm not one who likes to carry a tripod or hide in a hide so the focal range may be a little short for small birds most the time but that's what makes it fun for me.
Here is just a handful of bird photo's iv'e taken recently with the 40-150 pro. I have seriously lagged behind sorting my photos out but eventually i'll start playing with my raws more often. these are just quickly PP from the JPEG in PS but I always shoot in RAW + JPEG.

Enjoy

Laughing Kookaburra

Red-rumped Parrot

Eastern Yellow Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Female Superb fairy Wren

Rainbow Lorikeet 100% crop

I along with some other forum members can't see the photos. Any idea what happened to them?

Cheers Don

Donzac wrote:

vass wrote:

Finally getting out and doing some serious birding since my Fz18 days and now with E-M1 with a Oly 40-150 f2.8 pro and teleconverter.
I'm Finding the lens more enjoyable each time I take it out. I bought this for general wildlife and as a bird fill until the 300 f4 comes out and find it pretty handy as a walk around sneaking up to birds. I'm not one who likes to carry a tripod or hide in a hide so the focal range may be a little short for small birds most the time but that's what makes it fun for me.
Here is just a handful of bird photo's iv'e taken recently with the 40-150 pro. I have seriously lagged behind sorting my photos out but eventually i'll start playing with my raws more often. these are just quickly PP from the JPEG in PS but I always shoot in RAW + JPEG.

Enjoy

Eastern Yellow Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Female Superb fairy Wren

Rainbow Lorikeet 100% crop

I along with some other forum members can't see the photos. Any idea what happened to them?

Cheers Don

This thread was originally posted in 2015. The photos links are long since deleted. Some thread necromancy is going on here.