A Beautiful Rainbow Bee-eater
This Rainbow Bee-eater was taken with a 300mm lens with a Nikon D700. This length lens is excellent for subjects such as birds and other similar wildlife subjects, although for some smaller birds even longer lenses may be required.
There are excellent article and details for lens types for different applications and it can be quite important to your final image quality to get the lens selection correct to suit your subject matter.
Photographing Pelicans
Pelicans
Generally pelicans are fairly easy to photograph because they are so large. For the image above I used a 300mm lens which is about the maximum required.
Generally a digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera is better for birds such as this as what you see in the viewfinder is what you get and you actually see through the lens.
Excellent images can be captured even with a base level DSLR. There are various summaries of the Canon and Nikon cameras to enable informed selection. Also take care that your camera is steady when using long lenses.
Beautiful Orchid
Orchid
A beautiful orchid such as this can be captured in many different ways, with a macro lens, extension tubes or supplementary close up lenses. The main thing to careful of is that you have sufficient depth of field and that there is no camera movement.
See the following pages for more information on suitable lenses and options for your photography.
Grasshopper
Grass Hopper
Close up lenses are great for images such as this. Image captured with a Nikon D700 and Nikon 200mm Micro lens.
Wetlands With a Long Telephoto Lens
Using a telephoto lens for a landscape can be a good way to get a different perspective in your images.
For the image above a 300 mm telephoto lens has been used with a Nikon D700 camera and a Nikon, Nikkor, 300mm f/4D IF-ED AF-S, Lens some times even a longer lens such as this one Nikon, Nikkor 500mm f/4G ED VR AF-S Lens or a very long zoom Nikon, Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED VRII AF-S Lens, also can be very creative in landscapes.
Long lenses are a great tool for both landscapes, nature, animal and bird photography.
The Kite Surfer
Kite surfers are quite easy to photograph with a long lens as the sport is becoming quite popular.
A Nikon D2H camera and Nikon, Nikkor, 300mm f/4D IF-ED AF-S, Lens has been used.
Rodeo
This guy is just hanging on. Nikon D700 and 300mm f/4 lens.
Beautiful Flower
A beautiful flower from a local flower festival. Nikon D700 with 105mm Micro lens.
Fungi
Brisbane Riverfire
Fireworks at the annual Riverfire, Nikon D700 and 24-120mm lens.
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