Bolsa Chica Reserve, Huntington Beach CA

Took another trip down to the Bolsa Chica Reserve on my off 9/80 Friday. I've been looking at either the 1.4x or the 1.7x converter to go with my 300mm F4 AFS. The 1.4x would give me 420mm and the 1.7x would give me 510mm. I borrowed my dads 1.7x to test out. With the loss of light, I had to keep my ISO fairly high to keep my shutter speed around 1/1000s because it was an overcast day. The auto-focus wasn't responding too well, and needed to be manually focused to a close enough range before the auto focus would kick in.

I managed to get a few pictures, mostly of some Hummingbirds that were hanging around the area.











The additional reach was nice and I didn't really notice any quality issues. I think I will end up getting the 1.4x to go with my 300mm F4 which would give me a 420mm f/5.6 lens.

Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
http://www.bay-photography.com/

A night in downtown Long Beach

Went out last Friday night with my homie Peter down to Long Beach to go exploring and snap a few pictures. We wanted to stop by San Pedro to get some shots of the Vincent Thomas bridge, but it turns off at 11pm and we were too late to capture it lit up. We will have to go back another weekend.

We did manage to get a few from downtwon Long Beach. This is a 4 shot stiched panorama of the downtown water front from Rainbow harbor. It was a calm night, so the harbor water allowed for some nice reflections.



This shot was taken further down South from the Belmont pier. The pier was closed and we got kicked out after taking a few pictures so this was all I was able to get.



We'll head back out another weekend to get some shots of the Vincent Thomas bridge, and Grissom island in Long Beach.

Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
bay-photography.com