It's a hot late #spring day and I was sitting the conservatory as #birds were flitting around the back #garden. Here's a verdant scene of the #flowering #potato #plants I took while waiting with a #telephoto lens for any #sparrows to show up.

One #HouseSparrow did visit the #birdfeeder and I got this nice profile. It almost looks like it's holding a pose for me.

Seconds later, it flew right up to within 3-4 m under the shade of a #rose #bush no doubt looking for aphids and I caught this rather contrasting, scary image of the same #bird as it might look to one of its tiny victims.

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Earlier today, I used a #MacroLens to #photograph a subject close up. Now I switched to a #telephoto lens with a #FocalLength of 400 mm to capture objects effectively at #infinity.

You may have seen some of my #sunset #photographs before and, yes, it's the same #horizon and the same old #Sun but this one caught my eye because of its sharpness. There wasn't a cloud in the vicinity of the Sun when it was setting. You can see the bright, smoothly varying #yellow, #gold and #orange of the #sky contrasting the dark, sharp #silhouettes of the #trees in the #foreground. Also there's that mobile phone mast too.

#Cropping the image around our local #star, you see the #trees in what I'm calling #ExtremeSilhouette as the blinding light of the Sun seem to flow around solid wood and renders it invisible with only the ends of branches seemingly suspended in mid air disconnected to the trunk and giving the Sun the appearance of having spiky hair.

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It's a clear #night and #Jupiter and #Venus are bright in the #western #sky and getting closer together in their apparent positions. This is a #photograph of the pair with a 1.6 s exposure. It is also difficult to get a sharp #focus manually as autofocus doesn't really work with objects at infinity and yet effectively points of light. This taken with a 400 mm #telephoto #lens.

Also with long exposures and a heavy lens, even a the tiniest #vibration on the tripod can blur the image, even with the sharpest focus. Here's the same image but cropping around Jupiter. You can see its four biggest satellites, (left to right: #Europa, #Io, #Ganymede and #Callisto, information courtesy of #Stellarium)

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Telephoto Lens Without the Fiscal Pain

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How to Make a Telephoto Camera Lens Out of an Empty Pringles Can

In a new video from Fotodiox, photographer Sean Anderson shows how anyone can make a telephoto pinhole lens out of a few items like a soda can, tape, and an empty Pringles can.

Anderson says that photographers who might find themselves with some extra free time on their hands might enjoy creating fun and interesting photography products using food packaging that can be found around the house. In this particular project, he shows how an empty Pringles can be converted into a telephoto pinhole lens.

Previously, Anderson has shown how to turn a body cap into a pinhole lens, but because of how close the hole was to the sensor, the focal length was wide: he estimates it at around 24mm. He says that since then he has been thinking about ways to create a pinhole lens that was more zoomed in, like a telephoto lens.

"If you put some space between where you put your pinhole lens and your camera, it actually crops in on the pinhole image circle and it makes it a longer lens, closer to a 75mm or 100mm lens," he says. "This is great for photographers like me who like to shoot pinhole because it gives you a different focal length to work with."

While it is possible to use an extension tube and a lens cap pinhole lens to achieve this effect, Anderson wanted to try something a bit more unusual and make his own from scratch. To make one just like it, photographers will need just a few items: a "grab and go" sized pringles can, a soda can, some sewing needles, gaff tape, a box cutter, scissors, a 67mm Macro reverse ring, and a 77mm to 67mm step down ring.

After cutting the metal bottom off the Pringles can and cutting a whole in the center of the plastic top of the can, Anderson takes a strip of the soda can, pokes a hole in it, and tapes it to the center of the cut hole in the plastic lid. He covers the entire exterior of the pringles can and the interior of the plastic lid with gaffer's tape in order to reduce reflections and prevent light from leaking in.

He then tapes the two rings (which he screwed together) to the can so that he has a way to attach it to his camera.

The resulting lens can take both photos and videos, and Anderson shares a few examples below:

For the full detailed assembly instructions as well as further example images taken with the telephoto pinhole lens, make sure to watch the video above. For more from Sean Anderson, subscribe to the Fotodiox YouTube Channel.

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Image credits: Photos by Sean Anderson.

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