Blue Jay Portrait.
The short MFD (for a lens of this FL) of the 500 f/4 II has allowed me to create some neat full-frame (or just about) head-and-shoulder portraits of species that I was just not able to do with the 100-400. Here is one of a Blue Jay that was just way too cooperative. It was perching on a sort of table that people scatter seeds and various other foods for the birds and hares. It was on the far side of the small table when I composed nicely and loosely for a portrait and a bit of spare room when it came to the near side before I had time to press the shutter button...now too tight in the frame in-camera...but I did not want to spook it so I took the images from there anyhow and added a bit of canvas top and right during processing.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1250s., f/7.1, ISO 400, natural light, handheld, more than FF (see explanation above), a few specks ni the plumage removed via spot-removal tool. The white line along the lower mandible is there in the raw file.
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