Thanks for your replies. I shot the image below this past July with a 5D MK3, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS II USM, EF 1.4x. It was a hand held shot, possibly at shutter speed a bit low for the focal length (540mm). Given the location of the single focal point on the deer, I'm thinking the focal area shown in the focus mask is shifted past a little bit. I was thinking the flowers in front of the deers nose should be more in focus than presented. Interested in comments.
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You are welcome and that field has beautiful color, great job of capturing Bambi in it! Maybe I need to go out and find a nice friendly group of deer.
My woodpecker is taunting me. He often is plying his trade on one English walnut near the west edge of my property so I set the a tripod up for it to see if he would show and within 20 minutes I heard his unmistakable tapping noise coming from almost directly overhead. I was located under a tall hackberry tree and he was near the top. Although a 2 foot long, 11 pound EF 800 f5.6 isn't great for handheld use I released it from the tripod and got a few photos of him before he flew elsewhere.
He is an interesting bird and our mutual behavior is amusing to my daughter. She told me that she can already see what some psychologist will write in the future: the subject was already becoming unhinged from the lack of sports shooting due to the pandemic and then he begin to imagine that the birds were conspiring to work against him and that is what pushed him over the edge into full blown insanity 🙂
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The woodpeckers in my area are very elusive as well, my attempts to photograph them in the trees so far have been dismal, but I managed to capture one interesting snap of a wood pecker and his victim insect meal on the ground. -Gerry
