Zooming

So this was taken with my 75-300mm zoom lens which I bought the last time I did the 365 project back in 2012. I’ve always looked on it as quite a shite lens as it’s slow to focus, has no IS and is damn heavy. However, I thought I’d take it out today just to take a couple of shots in the garden to see how it fared. The images looked awful and I couldn't figure out why the images were so light with no contrast in them. Well mystery solved. It has a uv filter on it which I must have put on back in 2012 to protect it. I didn’t have a clue about filters then and actually still don’t! So when I took it off the colours were so much better and vibrant. Result! And yes, I could have taken this photo with my normal lens but the dof it so much better on this one.

[Casablanca]

Nice! What is the plant? It's an amazing blossom, almost brush like.

[Kazza]

@casablanca Now there's a question! I just about know what a rose looks like. It's a tree. That's as much as I can tell you. Sorree :/

[Casablanca]

Ha ha, you're as good as me! I would probably say "it the pink spiky one" and my mum would immediately reel off the Latin name for it!

[Paul]

Lovely capture. I hate my 70-300mm for the same reasons. Way too heavy and no IS. I've taken to using it only with my tripod and a cable release now. I'm getting better results but still, it's not my lens of choice.

[Kazza]

@paul10 I honestly thought that I could capture squirrels and such with it but no such luck as squirrels and fast and jerky and this is slow slow slow 😊