I spent a few hours at a local nature area to get some practice in photographing birds. This is new for me and it's definitely not easy. They were pretty skittish and with some having babies they hid in the reeds a lot. Even with an RF100-500 these are heavily cropped on an R5. It was cloudy which helped with butterflies and flowers, but not so much with the wildlife. I can't decide whether they would have been a little sharper with a tripod/monopod or it's due to distance. It was peaceful out there and it was wonderful hearing all the different calls.
A monopod / tripod just let's you use slower shutter speeds in my experience, which is fine for perched birds, etc.. , but a moving subject will still blur, so I find my solution is to just use the fast shutter you need, set your F stop for peak sharpness, usually f7.1 on average for long tele zooms, and let the ISO roam, and deal with it post. You can remove noise nowadays without killing a pic, but you cant remove motion blur nearly as effectively or easily.
Erictator wrote:
Nice set! Your doing great, just keep at it.
A monopod / tripod just let's you use slower shutter speeds in my experience, which is fine for perched birds, etc.. , but a moving subject will still blur, so I find my solution is to just use the fast shutter you need, set your F stop for peak sharpness, usually f7.1 on average for long tele zooms, and let the ISO roam, and deal with it post. You can remove noise nowadays without killing a pic, but you cant remove motion blur nearly as effectively or easily.
Eric
I was thinking a tripod/monopod might hinder me when I want to move around. What you suggested is pretty much what I do now so I'm off to a good start. I think I need to get closer or wait for the subject to move in closer to fill the frame. I was contemplating getting a noise reduction program as all I have now is via Lightroom. Thank you so much for your thoughts!
