Your Canon Photos No. 13: 30th July to 5th August 2023

Mocha,

As usual, your photos are beautiful. I'm glad you found a good dry day to go on a walk. Not only do you show us quite a variety, the composition is excellent. You pick your scenes and backgrounds very well.

Hi all,

As you can see by my postings, I'm back from vacation. I was actually back a few days ago, but I needed extra time to get back to my regular routine and to post process many photos. Plus I've been busy taking more pictures. I was actually recently taking photos on three different days. We have a once-a-year event, that I didn't want to miss. Because once it's gone, it doesn't come back until next July.

Subject: Lake Tahoe Sunset

I took these photos at Lake Tahoe while on my summer vacation. For those that don't know, Lake Tahoe is in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, on the California and Nevada border.. It's a very popular resort destination.

Photo No. 1 - There was one particular day, in which we had a nice group of clouds to create these scenes.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/250 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 1000
ExposureBiasValue - 0.67
FocalLength - 40 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 2

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/500 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 3200
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 15 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 3

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/15 seconds
FNumber - 7.10
ISOSpeedRatings - 100
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 45 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 4 - Because of the type of clouds we had, zooming in was particularly nice.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1000 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 125
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 181 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 5

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1600 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 800
ExposureBiasValue - 0.67
FocalLength - 200 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 6

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1600 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 640
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 200 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 7

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1600 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 640
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 200 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 8

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1000 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 1250
ExposureBiasValue - 0.33
FocalLength - 200 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 9

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/125 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 110 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 10 - Even after the sun sets, I still find it irresistible to keep taking pictures. 😀

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/25 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 5000
ExposureBiasValue - -1
FocalLength - 15 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Thanks, I do blame the fungi also on the rainy weather, today it's again a day with a lot of rain......

Welcome back 😉
Well those 600mm photos will be the last for a while. The Sigma had some wobbling lately between the focus ring and the rear barrel part
Found out today that my trusty Sigma has broken some internal mounting points between the different barrel parts. did a disassembly to find out it can't be fixed.
So that lens is out of order and a big paperweight....
We will get another one but for now 400mm (or 560 with a 1.4x TC) will be enough 😏

Do love those moody skies 👍

Photobygms,

Thanks. I'm glad you liked the Lake Tahoe sunset.

Alll excellent shots! I like these two in particular. The composition and very effective simplicity in the B&W shot make these my favorites.

Really beautiful - a lot of excellent shots with great atmosphere. Those stood out for me!

26 miles (40km?) Is indeed a long walk.
Some great pics there. The flower and damsel fly are particularly nice.

Great lighting and colours

Thank you. It's great to finally own a camera that has excellent focussing ability on birdies.

Hi Dig,
Thank you. No patience at all involved. I was photographing the ducks just swimming calmly in the water while waiting for something else interesting to fly by when it suddenly decided to take off. Just lucky was all. 😀

Cheers
Paul

Thanks Simplejoy. I appreciate the feedback. In the last picture, I was lucky to have the moon there too.

Thanks Fotoword. I'm glad you like the Lake Tahoe pictures.

Subject: Mt. Shasta

On the way to Lake Tahoe we drove by Mt. Shasta. It's a little over 14,000 feet in elevation. We didn't have forest fire smoke this year, so the conditions were pretty much ideal. I took these as a passenger in a car, through the window glass. Because we were moving at highways speeds, I had to use a high shutter speed.

I've been playing with my computer program and now am able to add in an extra space for the EXIF data. It has been a fun thing for me to do, since I don't write code in that language very much. So I just hack away with whatever knowledge I have to get it to work. I wrote it for my CanonT7i, Canon 800D and Canon M50 MKII cameras. The Canon M50 MKII EXIF data had two different varieties, with one weird temperature reading of more than 120C. So I wrote code to remove it in my MS Word document, so the EXIF data then was consistently the same.

Photo No. 1 - This gives you all a perspective of how the mountain looks like from the highway.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1250 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 500
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 70 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 2 - It's a dormant volcano.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1250 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - 0.33
FocalLength - 86 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 3 - You can see all the extra snow there is on the mountain.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1250 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - 0.33
FocalLength - 86 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 4 - In mid-July most of the snow would have been melted.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1250 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 500
ExposureBiasValue - 0.33
FocalLength - 86 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 5 - But this year we had a lot of extra snow.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1250 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 320
ExposureBiasValue - 0.33
FocalLength - 86 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 6 - Last year, I took pictures of a forest fire that I saw on Mt. Shasta. It was possibly caused by lightning. I hope you liked the series.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/1600 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - 0.33
FocalLength - 88 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Subject: Black Bird

It was surprising, but on my vacation I actually got a good wildlife photo of a bird with only 200mm focal length. On the first one, I had to crop it although to avoid a distracting branch. With the second picture, I only cropped it a little for the same reason.

Here's the story. I was walking along by the South Lake Tahoe casinos when a bird attacked me. Fortunately I was wearing a hat, so it did not hurt. I looked around and saw this Brewer's Blackbird on a nearby tree. I had to encourage it to move to a branch that would give me the best pictures. I hope you like these two.

Photo No. 1

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/200 seconds
FNumber - 11
ISOSpeedRatings - 320
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 200 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 2

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/250 seconds
FNumber - 11
ISOSpeedRatings - 250
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 200 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Hi Digirame, Thank You.

Every so often I enjoy a return to my old haunts.

Hi Digirame,

Those sunsets are stunning, I particularly like Photo 4 and photo 9 you caught the 'Magic hour'. Super Job on your Blackbird especially at 200mm. Sometimes we can be lucky and be able to use a smaller Zoom if we dont spook them.