Paul Dore won the Dorset Echo Camera Club competition in March with this beautiful image, for the theme of Spring.
Paul tells us a little bit about himself and how he acheived the shot.
"The photo was taken from Highcliffe cliff top whilst walking my dogs.
I noticed the Greenfinches on the top of the gorse, so used my height and distant backdrop of the gorse bushes to create the bokeh , despite using the RF800 f/11 lens with my Canon R6.
Being an f/11 lens you need good light but the low noise of the R6 and image stabilisation means I could take this handheld.
The low weight of the R6 with RF800 means I can use this combo whilst walking my two retrievers. I also use a Canon 100-400 L IS ii lens with the R6 using the EF RF mount adaptor as a walkabout.
I have now acquired an EF 500 L F4 IS ii lens which works well with the R6 but not so much a walkabout lens!
I am 59 years old, married with 2 children. I work for Lockheed Martin on Postal address recognition technology. I am an AFC Bournemouth fan, travelling all over to watch them (when we could ). As well as my love of photography, I am into BBQing/smoking, fishkeeping and fishing.
I got back into photography around 5 years ago when I was given a Canon 400D , I then started to take photographs of wildlife and quickly realised I needed more reach and a more up to date camera.
I then upgraded the body to a
mirrorless R6 and bought an
RF800 lens and the RF 1.4 converter , which I have had great success with.
Thanks to Paul for telling us about yourself and your lovely image.
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