Was in Riehen near Basel this afternoon, went for a coffee in the Beyeler Foundation garden and there was Jeff Koons' gigantic Split Rocker covered in real growing flowers. Kind of a surprise since the last time there there were only some very nice ducks running around on the lawn.
John. that is really a well captured raptor, against a very busy background to boot.
Where you perhaps faced some challenge was in the light conditions. Firstly, there was direct light on the bird's head only, the rest of it was shaded. Second, those leaves in the background could be quite reflective thus robbing you of contrast. Lastly, I am not sure if you overcropped-enlarged the bird.
Generally speaking, 1/1250 sec should be enough for that kind of a bird/flight type.
Incidentally, another thing that might interfere with IQ is starting to fire before the IS settles, or firing while swinging the lens rapidly which might unsettle IS.
p.39 #15 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
Here is another test shot with 1DX + 400 f/5.6.
The bird was doing fishing-cruise at about 40 km/hr, i.e., nothing very fast.
The camera AF was set to my standard mode: center AF + expansion.
Although the undulating flight pattern of the bird makes it a bit hard for the operator to keep the selected AF point "glued" to the bird's head, even with AF pt. expansion, this type of motion is a piece of cake for the 1DX/400 f5.6 combo. In fact, with plenty of DoF, even an auto AF point selection mode would work well here.
p.39 #18 · Summer photography with Canon equipment
PetKal wrote:
John. that is really a well captured raptor, against a very busy background to boot.
Where you perhaps faced some challenge was in the light conditions. Firstly, there was direct light on the bird's head only, the rest of it was shaded. Second, those leaves in the background could be quite reflective thus robbing you of contrast. Lastly, I am not sure if you overcropped-enlarged the bird.
Generally speaking, 1/1250 sec should be enough for that kind of a bird/flight type.
Incidentally, another thing that might interfere with IQ is starting to fire before the IS settles, or firing while swinging the lens rapidly which might unsettle IS....Show more →
The light was bright and sunny, though a bit hazy, about 80 shots from 11:00 to 11:20 in the morning.Shooting AI Servo, single shot, Case 1, the 5D3 nailed every single shot precisely the same. Also the same was 1/1250s and f/8, ISO on Auto. The crop I guesstimate is at about 60%, so it shouldn't be over the edge.
All the shots have just about the same sharpness structure, so what I am looking at is the detail and edges being just off the amount that you see. I thought just a hair of motion blur, noise, though the first one is at 1600 and the second at 200.
I have gotten better shots with the 5D3 + 100-400, so I'm trying to figure out where the error lies with these. Maybe it is just a fickle trick of the light, but fickle it seems to be whatever the case.
