I had the opportunity to test Sigma's 150-600mm contemporary -lens, which is one of the affordable but high quality supertelezoom lenses. My current telezoom lens, old Canon 100-300mm is starting to break down, so I'm trying to find for alternatives.
The sigma's lens is huge and heavy, I can imagine the sport-variant is even far heavier, but this is heavy enough for making me think I wouldn't carry this around just for fun.
But now to the photos.
First target was the sleeping duck. Nothing too interesting here.
Now let's take a closer look.
See it's eyes? It's watching us. It sees us. It watches over us.
Not sure if it'd rather kill us or escape.
We moved further and saw the two ducks on the rock.
I'm using a full-frame Canon EOS 6D and even with cropped images, you can see the images seem sharp. The images are cropped approximately to 1800x1200. I'm not sure if I could have got a sharper one, but this was a quick snap with autofocus.
Now to the swans. We found a bunch of swans!
They're usually really aggressive if people get close to them, but this flock of birds had gathered really close to a popular hiking spot.
So they were cool with people getting relatively close to them.
Are you looking for treasures in there, buddy?
Now look at that ass!
I know I'd be happy to take plenty of butt photos, but I didn't believe I'd be taking photos of baby swan asses.
Ass you can see I mean as you can see, the photo isn't focused on the ass. With f/7.1 aperture it still looks pretty nice to me. One of the best swan asses I've photographed so far.
"Hey, my eyes are up here!"
This is kind of boring photo, BUT here you can again see the sharpness in the crop. Can you see his fabulous hair?
It's short, but it's there. And it's not really hair, but who cares. The photo is detailed enough for a 1000€ lens (which can be found at half price if you buy it used in good condition).
Not sure about photo quality, but this is my favorite shot of the day. The loving pile of swans.
This makes me think of a safe, comfortable childhood.
I think everyone and everything deserves to have a good life and a safe childhood.
You can see in it's eyes. They know it's going to end soon and the warm days of summer will be gone.
No more joy with siblings. No more everlasting light and food.
When the winter comes, it's time to leave.
Hey! It's not winter yet, please don't leave!
A family was watching swans with us and for some reason, the mother ran at the swans and scared them away.
No clue why she did that. I wish I had taken a photo of her, but I was afraid she'll attack me too.
So to make you better, I took a photo of the pole.