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Don Gale Photographs Wildlife in Costa Rica with Tamron

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Channel: TamronVids · 2009 · Howto & Style

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Don Gale Photographs Wildlife in Costa Rica with Tamron Lenses

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Transcript:
Hi I'm Don Gail and I'm a professional photographer from Los Angeles California, we're here in Costa Rica and I'm going to show you some tips and techniques on how to get better nature photographs using Tamron's new 28-300 VC lens.

Today I went to Manuel Antonio national park which sits right on the pacific coast near the city of Capo's. Here's a place you can walk down a path for less than a minute and find something amazing to shoot everywhere. I found a huge clump of the biggest bamboo I've ever seen, it was about 6 inches in diameter. The lights great because the lights coming from the other side so we're completely in the shade here, and there's still some water drops right on this bright yellow and it's got that classic little bamboo segmented area there's like, I can actually do this handheld with this stabilized lens should be perfect. It's pretty obvious that the 28 to 300 VC has this phenomenal zoom range, from you know wide angle too serious telephoto but another thing about it it's got a great macro feature and it's very unusual to have a lens that's really got a serious macro ability blend it in with it with a stream zoom range. With the macro I want to have the water drops be the kind of a point of focus and have everything else kind of drop off so I'm going to shoot it maybe f8 and with a macro  f8 sounds like it's giving you a lot of depth of field both the macro lens f8 is not much at all it's going to be very shallow, you see how this looks here let's get it a little bit closer. With macro shooting any camera movement or any subject movement is going to blur the picture while the band was not moving but the camera could be moving and I didn't always use my tripod and the cable release and a mirror lock-up to prevent that, but with this VC feature I get a sharp image every time. Looks good.

Then we started walking down the trail and we saw this huge spider web off to the side with a with a spider as big as you can imagine sitting right in the middle of it, but the lighting here was was the issue it just wasn't what I was looking for. The background was fine, but the lighting was so flat on the spider and the web that it needed some contrast and just a back light from an off-camera flashes all we needed so we set up a radio transmitter and a wireless off-camera flash and had somebody back there and I was aiming up at the spider web, and he was standing about 15 feet behind it, aiming this flash up at the spider web and that worked out perfectly.

Here in the park, without a doubt probably the most popular and entertaining like for sure, are the monkeys and they've got three different varieties but the ones who were shooting this morning were these white faced monkeys, and they make great subjects that's assuming you can get them to sit still long enough for a shot, which they almost never do because they're screwing around just like the monkeys you see the zoo, their facial expressions are amazing and that's part of what the intrigued that we have with them is they look so human-like, and I don't shoot sports but this is kind of like shooting sports because the subjects moving left to right, in and out and then here you've got that added component of trying to get the right expression and a fast enough shutter speed to stop the monkey. On our final day we went on a guided tour through a jungle area to hopefully find some of these scarlet macaws and some other birds that hang out here in the morning. Oh well it rained so heavily the night before that we were having to traipse through you know pretty thick mud for part of the way we ran into a really cool little area some of these ferns I mean the stuff is growing so much it is literally just like a big giant greenhouse and I found this really amazing brand new little kind of a fern like look like almost like a cross between two fern and pine needles it was right down in the forest floor and the 28-300 was perfect for that because I could get in really close with its macro ability and just drop that background out of focus it was just amazed I'd highly suggest if you haven't ever been here before you'll have a great time and you'll have plenty of great opportunities to get good images and remember whenever you're interested in getting more tips on photography go to the pro learning center at Tamron.com

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