Searching for Black Grouses

No clouds and sunrise. It's a match that doesn't work well. Even with couple clouds the sky would be so much more intresting.
We found birds but this time they were too far away. For the next time we know where to go. With D800 I didn't get anything publishable, but this is from V1 with 30-110.

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Night photography from the cemetery

Even though I have a D800 with quite expensive lenses to shoot when the light is low, I like to take with me the V1 and a small Manfrotto tripod. I miss only one thing: good manual focus. At least I haven't yet learned to use V1 MF-function well enough to use it daily when shooting landscape like I use it with bigger cameras.

That's why the second image is little bit out of focus. I used AF-A and I think it missed the focus and I just didn't bother to check it.

Bad weather panorama

A week ago I was watching one of the best finnish panorama photographer's show on a big screen while he was telling about the pictures.
Here is a one quick four image panorama stiched together from todays scenery trip with a car. Hand held V1 + 30-110 with manual settings.

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I bet this won't be my last panorama with this kit :)

Winter came, almost

Early winter came this week, climate got lot colder and of course I had to take some pics of it this weekend.
These are quite quickly taken pics, because most of the time I was only driving from place a to place b or sitting inside.

I was attending to nature photographers weekend in Punkalaidun where V1 actually got quite an attention. We were going through creating panoramas in Photoshop and my pics from V1 were used as examples. People were amazed how good images so small camera can do.
I think couple of those might think changing their pro dslr sets to that kind of smaller kit ( these guys were not some casual urban photographers, but guys who are shooting outside over 150 days per year ).

After infidelity

It has been almost two weeks since last post. I have a good reason for that. I had several dates with my D800 under the stars. I don't have the 10mm f/2.8 lens, so shooting stars with V1 is not an good option.

 Anyway, here are couple random shots from the last couple weeks ( I still carry the V1 everywhere, even if I plan to shoot mostly with D800 ).

I have also played a little bit with interval timer. It's nice to have it built-in in V1, but the minimal time between shots is 5s which is some times too much. I haven't had much success on time lapses, but I will post the results here when I get something to show :)

Almost rainless day

It has been raining all week so not much to photograph with a camera without decent weather protection, but today I got couple shots.

Weekend on a countryside

Notice the faint rainbow in the sky :)