Chris_88 wrote:
Joshua: As always excellent portraits, but no offense to your skills and the ladies, but I'm even more impressed by those owl shots.
Recent shot with the Loxia 21 stopped down to f8 for DOF.
Hi Chris, thank you and none taken! Wildlife photography is at least 10X more difficult than portraits, especially if it is coming down to the keeper rate. If you take 100 images in an hour during a portrait session; 99% are in perfect focus (thanks to the Eye-AF ); roughly half of that includes favorable composition/lighting, and then about half of that half, the model's expression/look is great. So, you may get some 25% of quality images. You do your selection and may end up with about 10% or 10 keepers.
In bird photography, you take 100 images in 10 minutes or even less, and if you get 1 or 2 keepers, you consider yourself lucky, very lucky. Of course, skill plays a role; the more you do it, the better you get but a more important factor is luck, sheer luck. While you can ask a model to do certain things for you, within limits of course , forget about birds doing you a favor. Most of the time, it is more the spray and pray mode or being there at the right location at the right time. Of course, the AF performance of the gear you use should be top notch, too.
I got lucky in this sequence....These two owls really couldn't stand each other. They did some kungfu fighting act seconds earlier. They moved sideways back and forth and the face off continued. At the end, although the guy to the left seemed to be more aggressive in the image I posted earlier, he ended up flying away as the guy on the right stood his ground.
Aug 08, 2017 at 01:21 PM
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); roughly half of that includes favorable composition/lighting, and then about half of that half, the model's expression/look is great. So, you may get some 25% of quality images. You do your selection and may end up with about 10% or 10 keepers.