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Birding with the 100 macro
There are situations where focal length is not vital for a bird portrait. While I, like many other avian photographers, really enjoy tight portraits of our favorite subjects shot with supertele lenses, here is a case in which I decided to experiment by setting up the 100 macro and Canon body on a tripod about 3 feet from a perch near my feeder, manual focusing on a point about a foot behind the perch and using a remote release to trigger bursts at approaching birds. The spray-and-pray method has its uses.
This was more an experiment to see what's possible than an attempt at art. The lighting is fair, but I'd make the obvious critique of my own image by disliking the hot spot from the sky in the upper right. I do like the fairly dramatic pose of the bird, and of course for those who don't like blurry wings, a bump in iso and shutter speed would have taken care of that factor.
Crop off top and bottom.
Canon 1Dmk2n, Canon 100 macro, iso200, 1/640 at f3.2