The other sections of this site contain pictures to illustrate a story, or an article on how to make something, or simply as a diary of what happened on a certain occasion. This section is for photography for it's own sake - portraits, landscapes, places, animals, plants, panoramas, videos etc.
The Canon EOS 5D Mk II was the first DSLR that could do proper full HD video. But it was the 600D that really made it possible to create wildlife videos without the huge white lenses - it has a 'crop video' mode, that acts as a lossless 3x converter (no light loss, and no quality loss). Here are some of the results with this camera.
We visited relatives in Canada the summer of 2011. During our stay in Calgary, I visited the Inglewood Bird sanctuary several times, armed with the 600D and an EF 70-300/4-5.6 L IS.
The great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) is common at Østensjøvannet. During mating, the male literally walks all over the female.
First off a little courtship display, followed by a single clip of 3 consecutive matings. The female wanted more, but the male was used up...
My group of Corydoras sterbai spawned, and deposited some of the eggs on the front glass of the aquarium. Luckily I had cleaned the glass 2 days previous, so the eggs could be filmed fairly easily.
One of the two eggs I had selected for filming hatched during filming on day 6 (day 1 was the day the eggs were laid).
A Canon 600D with a MP-E 65mm was used, the hatching scene at 5X enlargement, and a Zebralight SC51 was used for lighting. It was held inside the aquarium a short distance from the eggs, illuminating them from above and slightly behind.
Creating VR (Virtual Reality) panoramas is also fun.
See some panoramas from a May 17 celebration.
And here are some panoramas from around Norway.
In Oslo there is a lake, Østensjøvannet, where 215 different species of birds have been observed. See pictures of some of the birds that can be seen there.
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