Lauri Mantere

Here is another: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iip9fg7matbexck/_2160040.jpg?dl=0 You just don’t realize that we have frost above - 20 C and diffraction is a negligible problem compared to steam on the ...

Here You are: https://www.dropbox.com/s/se3i27e0h3h4ila/_2160056-Edit.jpg?dl=0

Hi.. No otter today. ;-) Both photos taken by handheld without any prop up. I like the picture what was taken at long exposures and in my 32" 4K-monitor the sharpness of this two images is also ...

I have the same settings, but the otter was only visible for 35 images time in 9 fps. So I only have time to shoot one series. By the time I raised my eyes from the viewfinder the otter had ...

Hi All I went to the well-known river again today to photograph the dippers when suddenly an otter climbed out of the water with fish to eat it on the ice floe. The situation only took less than 10 ...

400 mm x 1,25 = 500 mm

I think that 300 mm with 2x converter makes almost as good quality from a short shooting distance as 150-400 x1,25 from the middle distance. But both combinations are very sensitive to air ripple ...

I use LR for Raw files and of course Photoshop CC2021 for finishing. The built-in teleconverter does not degrade the sharpness at all, only the vibration of the cold air sometimes causes it.

I was inside hide where it was comfortable + 20 C warm. The lens was outside and the camera inside so the temperature difference between the lens and the camera was about 45 C degrees. A worse ...

Hi All. A few pictures in the -23 C frost from Utajärvi near Oulu with a new 150-400 lens. The best lens I have ever used :-) Best Regards Lauri

Hi All. A rare gull visited in my hometown over the weekend - The Slaty-backed Gull from Sea of Okhotsk. This was only the second time in history in Finland and the ninth in Europe. The bird has ...

I only photograph animals and nature - not any test charts? They can't make money. :-)

Young Goshawk guards the prey outside of the dovecote. Winter is a tough time for these young hawks and over 50% of them die during the first winter. Lauri

Pixel peeping :-P

Believe me finally, the ND filter is completely unusable. How to remove it in -30 C frost with bare hands, If you only have a few seconds to act. A really silly idea for an animal or bird ...

The fact is that with too short a shutter speed, the water will look silly. 1/2 sec -2 sec. is ideal 1/30 is far too short.

My outdoor images in winters is often destroyed by frost vapor covering the lenses which comes with breathing or rises from a cold river. Never ever from diffraction or other types of pixel peeping.

Diffraction is the least problem with winter photography as well as a teleconverter, as snow, ice and steam even prevent seeing through the viewfinder. Needless to recommend any shelters as they ...

Only forum problem. Here again: https://www.dropbox.com/s/19szuf24elsnv5q/Kara-iso2.jpg?dl=0

Images are crisp sharp but this platform destroys all the details, I mentioned it before. Same images here in 3840 px size: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2us5hmp7b2qbhud/Kara-iso.jpg?dl=0