Most of my time since midsummer has been spent overseeing a renovation project in our house. I've missed a lot of great photography opportunities, especially in September and October. Yesterday and today I made it out to Chapoquoit beach hoping to get some action shots.
I have a new teleconverter for Nikon lenses, the Nikon TC-14e III, which is a 1.4 x teleconverter (it effectively extends the focal length of a given lens 1.4 times). For this photograph I was using the teleconverter on a Nikon 300 mm F4 PF prime lens. Yesterday I was disappointed with the performance of the teleconverter - the images seemed a bit soft. But today I went back and did a few things differently. Mainly I used a faster shutter speed and went out earlier in the day so that there was really bright sunlight, and I was happier with the results.
I was hoping for surfers, but there weren't any. There were, however, a lot of people and their dogs.What I like most about this picture is the close-up of the dog's eyes.Nikon 300 mm lenas with 1.4x teleconverter, F5.6 at 1/1600 of a second shot with burst rate of 10 fps.
Monte