And When It Is Good …

It is very, very, very good!

I took this photograph today using the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS that I’ve been off-and-on complaining about. We were at the annual Brookside Gardens Wings of Fancy event, and I was experimenting. More on that in a later posting, but I was so taken with this image that I wanted to get it up on the site right away!

For this shot, the camera’s set at ISO800, and the exposure is f/8 at 1/160. The pop-up flash is on, fired through a Gary Fong Puffer. The lens is zoomed all the way to 200mm, and, since Brookside doesn’t allow tripods in the butterfly house, I’m handheld. There is nothing to complain about here. Sure, I maybe should have been at f/11 or so to gain a little more depth of field, but frankly, I’ll take this kind of performance any day.