Carl Walker
10-26-2013, 12:12 AM
I'm probably answering my own question here! Don't shoot then! What does everyone else do?
A few months ago I shot half a card on a martial eagle (mid am) that was drinking and resting at a waterhole. There were a number of sequences of him hopping in and out of water with different wing positions and also it's take off. I remember battling to focus at times too and it was around 25m away. Not one of the images was tack sharp and the BG although busy was weird and hazy but I never picked it up at the time.
Yesterday I had a perfect sighting of a male cheetah and took a number of shots but could clearly see the heat waves. It was around 10am and he was lying in the shade. Tried different aperture settings too but nothing worked. With my 600mm combo he was almost too tight in the frame so I was close enough. It was the same with the 70-200. Really disappointing as I really tried everything to create a great image. With all the different poses he was giving me it was too tempting to stop shooting.
thanks
A few months ago I shot half a card on a martial eagle (mid am) that was drinking and resting at a waterhole. There were a number of sequences of him hopping in and out of water with different wing positions and also it's take off. I remember battling to focus at times too and it was around 25m away. Not one of the images was tack sharp and the BG although busy was weird and hazy but I never picked it up at the time.
Yesterday I had a perfect sighting of a male cheetah and took a number of shots but could clearly see the heat waves. It was around 10am and he was lying in the shade. Tried different aperture settings too but nothing worked. With my 600mm combo he was almost too tight in the frame so I was close enough. It was the same with the 70-200. Really disappointing as I really tried everything to create a great image. With all the different poses he was giving me it was too tempting to stop shooting.
thanks