As any professional Wildlife photographer will tell you....
To be successful you MUST find good sign for the critters in which you seek. Only then will you become rich and famous as a professional wildlife photographer.
So off I went in search of "good sign" of Grizzly bears. And I'll be a son-of-a-b$%^ if I didn't find great fresh "sign" of them. But I never saw a single damn bear that day.
So much for that rich and famous part.
Thanks and I'm working on it. I've got the trip photos whittled down to 7,201 images now so I'm getting close. I gotta get back to some bear images soon but might get to some feathered friends next.
Great shot! Not your conventional wildlife lens, but as they say. The best lens to use is the one you have with you.
Can anyone tell me what the heck I'm seeing in the first image below with the wing blur?
My shutter speed was slow for a PIF shot but I've never seen anything like that motion blur before.
I've added a couple shots of the same bird before it launched and there is nothing strange about them.
I'm pretty sure I was not using ES which might have explained this but I was using Mechanical as best I recall. Is there a way to see the shutter mode in the EXIF data?
Canon EOS R5
EF500mm f/4L IS II USM
ƒ/4.0 500.0 mm 1/400 ISO 800
Or get a bit closer to the bird/duck which you might be able to do if you are shooting from a kayak. Zooming with your feet is not always possible, and pushing the background further back is almost impossible.
arbitrage wrote:
Thanks Bobby. Yep, just need your bird to background distance to be long enough and then the lens seems to render bokeh fairly well.
Geoff, it looks like you’re adjusting to the R5 pretty quickly and successfully. Cant speak to the 100-500’s performance but I’ve been extremely pleased with my adapted 100-400 is ii +- tc, 500 f/4 is ii +- tc etc. Spent the day in the field searching large and small and it was pretty quiet other than flocks of sandies. The R5 has no trouble tracking them in low light though neither would my a9. The a7riv would have struggled. I find using wide zone or another af mode without AED for more distant or fast moving small birds more effective.
