Rob and others on this thread who are bird shooters,
I'm following the 1dX III thread and notice little to no sports input but a lot of bird photogs. I shoot the 1DX II but I'm mostly a sports photographer. Like birds, focus is critical on long lens sports work, where we often shoot at 2.8 and often at high iso under stadium lights. I marvel at your awesome bird photos and how well they are focused. I can imagine if I went out for a day of shooting birds I would come back with a thousand deletes and 5 keepers! Briefly, what ARE your focus techniques for birds on a perch, birds/ducks flying? How do you manage to get focus on the eye and not the shoulder, etc? I don't think they are holding still very long for you to place the Single Point on the eye, maybe you're shooting around 7.1 etc (rather than 2.4 or 4) then deleting a lot and keeping the sharp ones? Are you using Auto Point Select or are you manually placing single point for perched birds? I'm sure a book could be written about this but is there a short answer that is appropriate here in this thread? I'm hoping some of your answer will apply to my sports/long lens work. thx!
Mar 06, 2020 at 06:04 PM
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