Spot AF and great detailed images - 1st day out with Canon EOS 7D

Hats Off to Canon on producing such a responsive and accurate focusing system, these are my thoughts about Canon 7D after using it on my 1st trip out with it along with family. I tried shooting Indian Blue Peacock behind a fence, it had its feathers spread and i wanted to shoot it as such a colorful animal and such a detail in wings really look amazing, and who can resist from printing a very nice large print of dancing bird. 

So i used normal focus spot to take a clear photo of bird, no luck. Here is the image it looks like

Check out the sharp fence that was around 6 feet away from me and bird was another 2 feet away inside the cage.

And here is image shot with Spot focusing enabled, Sharp image with excellent details. Eyes are slight back focus, but i think it works, absolutely no camera error but user error, i was using one shot AF and bird was conterminously moving.

The image was shot at 1/200, f2.8, ISO 250, Handheld, Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro non IS version.



And here is the final Processed Image. You can order print upto 20X30 from the gallery (click image)

See how use of wide open aperture (f2.8) along with 100mm focal length blurred the fence. It is slightly visible but image looks perfect for printing.

By Awais Yaqub, Images © Awais Yaqub 2010
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Islambad the Beautiful !

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More i go around in Islamabad more i love it. It is such a beautiful city. Here is photo of flower about to bloom at park in Islamabad, and how it will look fully grown.

Chrysanthemum Flower Show Islamabad

Chrysanthemum flower show is going to be held at Islamabad's Fatimah Jinnah Park on 28th to 30th of November 2008. Don't miss the chance and do pay a visit.

For photographers it is great opportunity to play with colors especially in the morning time when flowers are fresh and covered with dew drops !

Here is picture from 2006 show



If you miss it by any chance keep visting my website and blog i will post all photos from the show.

Kitty lens is not that kitty !!

I use Canon EOS 400D with EF-S 18-55 f3.5-5.6 supplied kit lens. Lovely colors of flowers always attract me and i decided to shoot closeup of the sunflower with this lens. At 55mm and aperture set to f/8 while iso set to 200. I kept moving closer and closer to the flower and kept focusing and discover how close this kit lens can actually focus !(0.92 ft)  image came our pretty good with lots of colors and detail. Click the image to purchase the print. It came out too good i decided to put into my fine art gallery.

I have been very satisfied with this lens and have used it to make a lot photos. It is not much good at focusing and very cheaply built but, it will keep happy a lot budget shooters if they use it carefully. This was not planned test shot just one from random daily shots so i decided to post.

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