Rensmart Photography

18/01/2025

Before Christmas 2024, I was loaned a Tamron Australia 11-20 Di III-A RXD lens from Blonde Robot to use on my RP and it does produce some very good photos. I am also impressed with the ability to get up really close to items (like flowers) and still have everything in focus. Anyway I do know this is a RF-S lens and on my RP it does crop the image down so it is a smaller image. I put the word out to my friends to see if I could test this lens on an RF-S camera. A fellow Camera Club member has a R7 and said I could use it and I took her up on the offer. As I only wanted to run a couple of quick tests, I asked to meet in from of the Benalla Art Gallery. I used the lens on my RP and took a couple of photos at 11 and then at 20 mm from 2 different places that also had differing light conditions. I then used the R7 and took the photos at the same locations at the same focal lengths to see what would be difference. Anyway the 4 images below are from the two different cameras as well as two different locations. It did prove though that on an RF-S camera the actual image is captured at larger size so if you want to 'blow' up the image on a large canvas without any further changes, then I suggest you use the lens on an RF-S (mind you , I do upscale the images from my RP so I suppose it doesn't make too much difference).

Now the images from the R7 did seem a tad sharper but with some editing software, again, this wouldn't be too much of a hassle so again not really a reason to use RF or RF-S camera.

Anyway, here are the images I took with the 1 lens on to different cameras.

17/01/2025

Cool and cloudless start to the day here in Benalla, It did warm up as the mrning went on. Took the moon photo from our place and then went for a quick walk around Lake Benalla and the Benalla Botanical Gardens.

15/01/2025

Some photos I took today - at 9am and then the rest at about midday from around Lake Benalla. It was partly cloudy when I ventured into town and then when I walked home, a storm and a bit of rain so yes I got a bit wet before I got home lol.

13/01/2025

Went for a quick walk (ok not so quick lol) and took some photos - mainly of birds. Even has a couple of reflected corellas also.

11/01/2025

Just a tad warm here in Northeast Victoria and I wanted to put up my drone (DJI Mavic 2 Pro - yes old but still ever so reliable) and took a few from different areas of Winton Wetlands - even a couple of 360s as well. See if you can see the outline of the animal in one of the 360's.

10/01/2025

Just some more macro photos I too in our backyard in Benalla today - using 2 different macro lenses - Tamron Australia 90mm Lens and Venus (Laowa by Venus Optics) 60mm 2:1 Macro Lens

08/01/2025

Just a few photos I took this morning while walking around Lake Benalla. Even a close up of a Praying Mantis that was sunning it self on the new boardwalk poles.

06/01/2025

we had some rain just about all day here in Benalla so I had to get some macro photos with my old Venus 60mm 2:1 Macro Lens(Laowa Australia). from our backyard of some water drops.

05/01/2025

Very hot here today in Benalla but after some early watering of the garden, I grabbed the macro lens (Venus 60mm 2:1 Macro) and took a few photos. Not really the best but reasonable. I did try to get a bee and fly but all those were oof,

01/01/2025

As promised - here is a link to the Timelapse Video on my YouTube channel of the photos of the Aurora that occurred on 1st Jan 25 from 10pm through to 04:30 am on 2nd Jan 25 - oh an don't forget to change the resolution to 4K for best viewing.

Time lapse taken near Benalla Airport looking south. The Aurora seemed quite bright and was visible to the naked eye for nearly the whole time lapse. Ending ...

01/01/2025

What a night, Aurora was around from about 10:30pm 1/1/25 right through to sunrise on 2/1/25. My battery on my camera ran out at about 4:30 am but did get quite a lot of photos which I am processing into a Timelapse video and uploading to my Youtube Channel later today.
These were taken near the airport early in the Mroning and then at about 4:45am at the Benalla Lake foreshore looking towards the Benalla Art Gallery and Munro and Sargeant Café

30/12/2024

One day I will find out what the Sun Halo means (around the moon, it is supposed to mean we have rain coming) but took a few photos from our backyard with a loaned lens Tamron Australia 11-20 Di III-A RXD from Blonde Robot.

29/12/2024

Went into our backyard in Benalla and took a few photos with 3 different lenses - 2 are Macro and the 3rd one is my 50-500mm lens

25/12/2024

I did get out on Christmas Eve to get a few photos but just didn't have enough time to actually process them all. These were all taken from around Lake Benalla with the loaned Tamron Australia 11-20mm Di III-A RXD lens from Blonde Robot. Am loving what I can get some photos of.

24/12/2024

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas day with lots of love and presents from us all at RenSmart Photography.

21/12/2024

Here is a few photos of 'The 4 String Strummers' busking outside of Hide's Bakery this morning in Benalla. They raised $150 which they are donating to Benalla Homelessness Response Group - BHRG Inc - well done guys . Yes they were great to listen to.

20/12/2024

Well I went out last night to my usual spot to try and grab a timelapse and Star Trail photos just outside of Benalla, but the smoke from the fires down in Grampians was being blown up our way. So I decided to just grab a sunset photo (which in itself was pretty colourful) before heading back to the Lake in Benalla and grabbing some photos at the Benalla Monash Bridge area.

19/12/2024

Still using the Lens I have on loaned from Blonde Robot - Tamron Australia 11-20 Di III-A RXD on my Canon RP as I went for a walk around Lake Benalla to get a few photos - even tried a selfie with this lens (didn't break it lol) as I am able to hand hold pointing back at me (light source from the window).