Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM

newworld666 wrote in post #12956003
amazing shot !!!! I love it !

Everything about this shot is crazy - the photography, the aircraft, the action.

Taken with the 1.4x on a recent trip to the Kruger in South Africa. It was almost dark at the time so I had to resort to ISO3200, f/4 (i.e. wide open), 1/100s.

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^^^ Fabulous Scott! ^^^

1942 Boeing PT-17 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
Not bad for being 69 years old, eh?

Scott_online wrote in post #12995988
Taken with the 1.4x on a recent trip to the Kruger in South Africa. It was almost dark at the time so I had to resort to ISO3200, f/4 (i.e. wide open), 1/100s.

2011-08-04 16-19-47 by Scott Grubb, on Flickr

Would never have known if you hadn't told me... Very nice image!

1D4 300mm f2.8 IS + 1.4x:

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This morning I finally got around to doing ma adjustments on the 300 f2.8 lens I recently purchased from another member of the forum.

I had also re setup my hummingbird feeder yesterday so I was anxious to try my lens. Since my feeder is in full shade all the time, I tried setting up my flash on a light stand and fired it remotely with the camera. Because of the slow shutter speed, the flash created what appears to be a drop shadow because of the birds movement during exposure.

These were shot in ETTL with these camera settings.

camera-7D
mode-Av
iso-100
aperture-f5.6
shutter speed-1/100 and 1/125 respectively

Any thoughts on avoiding the movement blur? Would the best solution be to use a higher iso in order to increase the shutter speed? I was using pw flex remotes so I can use hss if necessary.

[Edit: I should add that the background is a block wall fence about three feet away from the feeder.]

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Can you drop to f4 and up ISO to 800? That should give you 1/1000s

I guess I was concerned about introducing too much noise at iso 800. I was also concerned about the DOF being too shallow at f2.8 but here is a shot I just took at iso 200, f2.8 @ 1/1000th. This eliminated the 'drop shadow' look anyway.


I'll try using a higher iso too. Thanks for the suggestion.

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FlyingPhotog wrote in post #12996010
1942 Boeing PT-17 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
Not bad for being 69 years old, eh?

Not bad indeed.

Do you use a monopod for this sort of panning shot? I don't know how you manage to keep the subject so sharp and still blur the background. There was an F1 car running at my local airfield today and I must have taken 500+ (handheld) panning shots at various shutter speeds between 1/60 and 1/250 and not one is usable. (IS was set to Mode 2).

Which? The plane, the pilot or the photographer?

Two more shots of my new little buddy.

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navydoc wrote in post #13037874
Which? The plane, the pilot or the photographer?

De Plane! De Plane!

Nice Hummy!

"The Seagull Has Landed"

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Hopefully, I'm improving my technique using flash for these little guys. I also think that like prop blur, it looks better if the birds wings aren't completely stopped in action.

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