OneLens- took my 500mm Nikkor f8 mirror lens out this afternoon to our local pond and found Henry the Heron washing his feet. I have owned this lens for a number of years, but have hardly ever used it. Although this shot was handheld, a lens of this length does need to be supported with either a tripod or monopod. The way to ensure a sharp shot is to put your camera into High Speed burst mode and take several bursts. Generally if you rely on a single shot then more often you will get some degree of camera shake due to pressing the shutter release. With a burst mode you will get a few frames sharp once the firing has started.

I used the latest version of On1 Photo Raw 2018 (12.5.3) to convert this photograph of a Dartmoor Tor to B/W and applied a Sloppy Border 6 to the picture. Then exported the image as a 2000 x 1746 pixel file (from 5184 x 3888). On1 Photo Raw software has many interesting filters and effects, for the most part the application is easy to use, although I did have a lot of trouble resizing the image and exporting it in the new size. I will return to this application and look at it in greater detail. Photoshop may still hold the top slot as far as image editing goes, but don't dismiss some of the other applications such as PaintShop Pro, On1 Photo Raw, Affinity Photo, DxO PhotoLab, Aurora HDR etc.

Use of a long telephoto lens can compress a scene almost into a two dimensional view. A 100 - 300mm Lumix lens set at 300mm was used on my GH5 (200 - 600mm eqv. on a full frame camera). The scene had an overall sea mist fog, but using the curves feature in Photoshop I managed to add contrast.