I am an amatuer photographer and avid birder. I am passionate about bird photography and am considering an upgrade of my body. Right now I have a 70D and have captured some wonderful images with it but I really struggle with the camera in low light...
I recently upgraded from a prime 400 5.6 to the 100-400 4.5-5.6. Many of my shots have a bokeh with parallel lines in it. Trying to figure out why. I have a UV filter on, not a polarizer, which was my first thought. I have not tried without a fi...
Hi all. I have a Canon 70D (and love it). I bought it for photographing birds and got a 400 5.6 prime lens and couldn't be happier (except I now want a faster lens). I also like to do macro type photography and have used my Nikon superzoom for thi...
Thanks for your thoughts and help. The 3 bodies mentioned here are the ones I have been considering. Might wind up with the 5d mk iii but still not sure yet.
Thanks to you both. I am trying the sharpening in Lightroom right now and it seems to work really well. Seems there is always a trick that I don't know and something more to learn. Here is an image from today of a spotted sandpiper. I did crop t...
Well that is really interesting and not something I would have considered. I never use any sharpening in post processing, but I will use the clarity function in Lightroom. I think that works mostly like a contrast, but not quite sure. The camera c...
Thanks all for the great advice. I hate to crop, but birds being birds, I wind up cropping just because I want to see the bird and not all the background and so far I have found that I can't get close enough to fill the viewfinder without scaring of...
I didn't see it with the prime and I have to admit that I had a crappy filter on it as well, but not the same one. I think that the softness of my images with the prime and this new lens had everything to do with the filters. Not sure why I didn't ...
