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Great Blue Heron With Lunch - Click image to view larger!


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Artist: TUE DOAN - TMJ PHOTO;
Exposure Date: 2015:02:05 11:31:01;
Make: Canon;
Model: Canon EOS 7D Mark II;
Exposure Time: 1/2000.0 seconds s;
FNumber: f/4.0;
ISOSpeedRatings: ISO 100;
ExposureProgram: Other;
ExposureBiasValue: +14316557650/6
MeteringMode: Other;
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode;
FocalLength: 500.0 mm mm;
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Handheld shot!


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A great image underestimated by the usual who have never been on the field and do not know how to evaluate the difficulties to get a good picture, ciao Giangiorgio
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Thanks Giangiorgio! I took over 30 shots and only please with this one because of it's overall sharpness, curvy fish and most of all both fish & heron eyes shown.  Any of those 3 elements missing will diminish the appeal of the image (to me). I got lucky since it's very foggy yesterday and I had to shoot wide open at F4 (but yet everything is sharp with such shallow DOF).

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I shoot both birds and airplanes with the aperture wide open with pretty good results. From what I can see here it worked very well!!.
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Thanks Dimitris! Most of the time shooting wide open works very well, especially with the bare lens (500mm in this case).  It's more of a problem when I shoot with the extender (especially the 2x) since at 700mm or 1000mm the DOF is very shallow.  I would rather shoot without any extender but in birdshooting it's not our choice most of the time.  Good to hear from you, Greetings from SoCal!  :-)

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