Jonathan Ayres Photos

Queensland wildlife photos

2011-11-30T22:20:00.001-08:00

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latest bunch of photos from surveys out in central Queensland, Australia.

Togara Fauna survey

2011-11-05T03:37:00.001-07:00

jon ayres' photostream on Flickr.

latest photos from current fieldworks in central queensland

Latest photos

2011-10-11T06:07:00.001-07:00

jon ayres' photostream on Flickr.

A few local natives.

Brisbane riverfire 2011

2011-09-03T16:51:00.001-07:00

Brisbane riverfire 2011, a set on Flickr.

Brisbane Riverfire festival 2011. Nikon D7000 Sigma 18-250 mm.

Wards Well Ecology Survey

2011-08-26T02:02:00.001-07:00

Wards Well Ecology Survey, a set on Flickr.

Record shots from the latest survey, a potential mine site over in central queensland.

Palms National Park, Queensland

2011-08-20T04:28:00.001-07:00

Palms National Park, Queensland, a set on Flickr.

A collection of photos from a bat camp at The palms National Park in Queensland

Bunya Mountains National Park

2011-08-20T04:27:00.001-07:00

Bunya Mountains National Park, a set on Flickr.

A collection of photos from Bunya Mountains National Park in Queensland, Australia.

Togara, Central Queensland

2011-08-06T06:57:00.001-07:00

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Photos from the latest survey in Togara, Central Queensland. Using the D7000 and Sigma 50-500mm.

Australian Bird Photos

2011-07-23T02:41:00.001-07:00

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Photos from the latest field trip in Taroom, QLD

Australian birds

2011-07-20T00:21:00.001-07:00

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Currently working out near Taroom in Queensland. These are some of the birds encountered during a winter fauna survey.

jon ayres' photostream

2011-05-29T07:28:00.001-07:00

jon ayres' photostream on Flickr.

new photos from Tasmania and Brisbane

jon ayres' photostream

2011-05-10T20:46:00.001-07:00

jon ayres' photostream on Flickr.

Asutralian Photos

2009-10-19T03:00:00.000-07:00

A little late but here are some photos from a recent trip to the Norfolk broads, as usual the weather was rubbish, but the photos are a good example of the variety of creatures on show.

Good sites were Cley Marshes for bird-life, Hunstanton Point for the seals and Hickling Broad for everything from grass snakes to Norfolk Darter.

Camera used was a Nikon D300 with the Sigma 500 F4.5 for bird photos and the Sigma 150mm 2.8 for macro work.

RIAT 2009 - Arrivals Day Thursday

2009-07-17T06:59:00.000-07:00

I decided to check out the arrivals at RIAT this year on the Thursday as that looked like the best day weather wise, it started off ok but soon deteriorated by about 4PM and then the rain came as you can see in the photos. The weekend forecast is ok at the moment so it should be a good day themes this year are NATO 6oth anniversary, sea search 09 and its the Royal Navy 100th anniversary. Link here -http://www.airtattoo.com/airshow

All the photos taken on the Nikon D300 using the Nikon 70-200mm VR lens with the addition of a teleconvertor either a 2x or 1.4x for extra length. A zoom lens is better than a fixed focal as you can pan out on larger aircraft or zoom in for tighter shots or shots of smaller aircraft, if your selling photos of planes you often need to get the full plane in the frame bits of tail or wing missing are a big no no.

I dont use a tripod as they lack the freedom of movement you need; to capture sharp images you need to be shooting at least 500/1 anyway I like to shoot at about f10 with either 1/800 or 1/1250 depending on the overhead conditions usually i can get away with ISO 200 but when it rains or the cloud comes in the ISO will need to go up to 400 in order to keep the shutter speed high.

Focus settings on the D300 are complex the settings I use are as follows put it in S - for single rather than continuous focus - this makes sure the subject is in focus prior to shutter release, set the frame rate to CH - 8FPS with the separate battery pack, on the back rear focus selector I either use the white rectangle or the square with the cross-hairs, sometimes setting the white rectangle doesn't work quick enough as the camera will often hunt for a subject, so you can give the camera a start by selecting the centre selector and it will focus on anything within the 9 selectors around it, this usually works pretty well and means you dont miss a shot or have loads of out of focus blurred shots, in the viewfinder you can see which focus points are in focus when depress the shutter button, you can also move them around with the rear dial. In C for continuous focus select the middle position of the rear focus selector and 3D focus in the custom settings menu and the D300 will follow the subject around the frame which sometimes can also be useful.

Ken Rockwell has a much better explanation of these settings here.

Tour Of Britain 2009

2009-06-29T09:24:00.001-07:00

Some photos of the recent Tour of Britain race held around the centre of Hanley, Stoke on Trent. All photos taken on the Nikon D300 with Nikon 70-200mm VR lens. Using the battery pack extension on the D300 with Rechargeable AA batteries means you can get 8FPS out of the D300 pretty useful for fast sports like this one. I set the focus to C for continuous and normally select the centre focus bracket and fire a few frames off.

The photos are straight from the RAW file to JPEG so would all need to be edited for light, colour and cropping to get the best out of them.

Kemble Airshow 2009

2009-06-29T08:59:00.000-07:00

Some photos of Kemble Airshow 2009. Weather was pretty grim for most of the day but some nice aircraft. All photos taken using Nikon D300 and Nikon 70-200mm Vr lens with or without a kenko 1.4x convertor. All photo jpegs converted from RAW in Nikon View, need some work to enhance the light as it was poor on the day.

Sea Vixen

Eurofighter Typhoon

Spitfire

Spitfire and Hunter

Vulcan

Eurofighter Typhoon

AAC Apache

BBM Spitfire

Meteor