Panorama with a Fish Eye Lens

Blended Panorama with a Fish Eye Lens

In my earlier blog on Panorama using 8mm Fisheye, I had explained how I was struggling to take panorama using the earlier version of Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Aspherical IF MC. Recently after selling that lens, I got a newer version of the same lens called – Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye CS II with detachable hood. … Read more

Black-rumped Flameback

Black-rumped Flameback

It was the characteristic rattling-whinnying call and an undulating flight that drew me to this wood pecker. I was shooting using Canon EOS 5D Mark III fitted with Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L II IS USM & Canon EF 2X III Extender. It gave me a very little time before flying off again. It is the … Read more

Common Pierrot

Common Pierrot

I found this Common Pierrot (Castalius rosimon) butterfly on a quick weed flower (Galinsoga parviflora). I was carrying my Canon EOS 5D Mark III fitted with newly purchased Canon EF 300mm f/4.0 L IS USM + Canon EF 1.4x III Extender. This rig if you remember my older blogs (prior to the purchase of Canon … Read more

Panorama using 8mm Fisheye

Samyang 8mm fisheye on 5D Mark III

  [pano file=”pano1/pano.html”] I had purchased this great fish eye lens from Samyang few months back. Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Aspherical IF MC – Fish eye is great sharp lens. The lens is designed to be used with cameras having an APS-C sensor, and is exceptional value for such a lens in its class. This is … Read more

Coppersmith Barbet

Coppersmith Barbet

Coppersmith barbet is one bird that is easiest to identify. It has a round shade yellow face and throat. The body, light green upper part and dark green streak on pale yellow under part. Then a black stripe across the eye. Another point as to why it is easy to spot and identify, it chooses … Read more

Cicada

Dundubia species Cicada

As soon as I saw an exuvia of cicada on one of the tree trunks in our garden, I knew we were in for an ear splitting noise of cicadas. Peak of the summer every year I get a lots of these cicadas in our garden. Exuviae is the remains of an exoskeleton that are … Read more