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800D + 100-400 f5.6 II + Extender 1.4x III AUTOFOCUS WORKS ON F8 27 POINTS

Started May 4, 2018 | Discussions thread
KevinRA Senior Member • Posts: 1,466
Re: 800D + 100-400 f5.6 II + Extender 1.4x III AUTOFOCUS WORKS ON F8 27 POINTS

cdmazoff wrote:

Here are 2 I took today that were quite far away... (did not fill the VF at all)... and the light was wrong.. but....whatever

Snowy plover.. Lighting was tricky.. I have a lot to learn

View: original size

Whimbrel

View: original size

Nice birds

Like the whimbrel, we seem in the UK to have a good number of these passing by right now.

Just a suggestion - it seems the highlights blown on these? - (e.g. "whites" essentially pure white little detail in highlights). Suggest consider taking some images with less + EV / exposure  compensation (or otherwise metering for the wider scene) to preserve the highlights and lighten shadows on the computer later? You can drop the ISO too if exposing darker which then gives more freedom for this in terms of dynamics range, especially if shooting RAW and you should still be able to pull out shadow detail such as eye shine normally without too much noise.   You'll then get a more natural looking image with extra highlight detail - will help in both of these 2.

The 3rd heron in your original post looks great.  Great capture.

(And have been out enjoying my camera too - I also own and like the 100-400 )

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