Photographing "details" with a telephoto lens

6.9.2009 Czechia Fauna and Flora

Autumn is slowly beginning for us, the morning mists hint at the midsummer in progress, the trees are turning color and the leaves are falling. Sunday was one of those beautiful early autumn days, perfect for photography.
My original intention was to photograph wildlife in the wild, if I came across a road, that's why I only had a telephoto lens with me. Unfortunately, that didn't happen, but I still managed to capture several "details" of the natural beauty of the autumn Šumava. I was pleasantly surprised that even a telephoto lens can (under certain conditions) take interesting photos of relatively small objects. A big disadvantage (in some cases, perhaps, on the contrary, an advantage) is the minimum distance from the photographed object at which it is possible to focus, which is – in my case – 1.5 m. Again – as mentioned several times in previous articles – thanks to the small depth of field of telephoto lenses – especially with lenses with a high aperture – photographs were created where the given object is optically beautifully separated from its background.