Sigma 150-500mm zoom lens and used it to photograph one of my favorite New York scenes

Description: Sigma 150-500mm zoom lens and used it to photograph one of my favorite New York scenes Rating: 3.5 Reviewer: LAMPSOLS ItemReviewed: Sigma 150-500mm zoom lens and used it to photograph one of my favorite New York scenes

This week I have been testing the new Sigma 150-500mm zoom lens and used it to photograph one of my favorite New York scenes, the Statue of Liberty at sunset close to the time of the winter solstice.  At this time of year the sun sets directly behind the statue so it can be included in the photo.  I like photographing this scene with a very long telephoto lens because it squashes the perspective, and as a result brings in all the industrial background to form a tableau with the statue.

Photo was taken with the Nikon D800 set to its 1.2x crop mode, which resulted in an effective focal length of 600mm with the Sigma 150-500 zoomed out to its full 500mm magnification.

This is a panorama of the scene made after the sun set by combining three images in Photoshop so the resulting file is very large with extremely high resolution.