super tele

[Shadowman]

Had another bit of play with the Nikon 200-500mm lens.



f/5.6, 1/4000sec, ISO 100, 350mm

[rpcrowe]

Nice capture...

[Wavelength]

Very nice;

[Shadowman]

Nice capture...

Thanks Richard.

[Shadowman]

Very nice;

Thanks Nandakumar.

[lovelife65]

Beautiful. ONLY thing I may have done is clone out the dark object sticking up to viewers left.

[purplehaze]

Nice, John. Granted I am looking through bleary post-three-day-music-festival eyes, but it looks like the bird is inside a double wire cage. What technique did you use to avoid the wires in front of your subject?

[Shadowman]

Beautiful. ONLY thing I may have done is clone out the dark object sticking up to viewers left.

Hi Sharon,
Thanks for comment and suggestion.

[Shadowman]

Nice, John. Granted I am looking through bleary post-three-day-music-festival eyes, but it looks like the bird is inside a double wire cage. What technique did you use to avoid the wires in front of your subject?

Hi Janice,
The only thing I could do was shoot wide open, I had a few instances where the focus system was fooled by the wires. Thanks for commenting.

[Shadowman]

An edit.

[lesno1]

Lovely shot pin sharp

[Shadowman]

Lovely shot pin sharp

Hi Les,

Thanks for commenting.

[rpcrowe]

Hi Janice,
The only thing I could do was shoot wide open, I had a few instances where the focus system was fooled by the wires. Thanks for commenting.

Good job...

That's when either Manual Focusing or using whatever the camera system calls "Single Spot AF" comes into play... On some cameras, you can adjust the size of the "spot" for focusing so that at the smallest spot area you can shoot between the chain links of a fence...

Even at f/5.6 when you are using a long focal length lens (350mm in this case) and the bars or cage are close to you, you can as shown here effectively blur out the bars or cage.

If you mistakenly shoot with a smaller aperture, you might need to do a bit of Photoshop editing to get rid of the cage...

I shot this at 200mm on a crop sensor Canon DSLR at f/14 when I should have shot wide open at f/4... Dumb move but, I was in a hurry to keep up with my companions who were not photographers in this nature preserve...

I hate traveling with non-photographers (my wife being an exception to that rule)

[Shadowman]

Richard,

Thanks for comments, regarding the focusing area of my camera I think I can only make two adjustments; spot focus and entire area.