Egrets at 1000mm

[Aloicious]

Great shots! #2 is my fav of the bunch. are you using a gimbal of some sort with it?

 

[JacaRanda]

Great set. Wayyy impressed with them all.

 

[matthewo]

thanks 5 is kinda a love or hate it. i just thought it was cool to show an egret flying through the frame. i know not good composition to have out of focus infront and all

 

[matthewo]

Great shots! #2 is my fav of the bunch. are you using a gimbal of some sort with it?

nah, just a manfrotto fluid monopod and tilt head most of the time and hand held the rest

i love the monopod so much i dont even bring my tripod with me unless i know i might do long exposure

 

[Aloicious]

I should get a tilt head for my monopod. everything looks great with the 500, I can't tell much loss of IQ with the 2x on in most of them (a little in #1), though its probably more noticeable at 100%.

 

[matthewo]

i use a $75 sirui l10 head, its a knockoff of the RRS tilt head, but its still great quailty.

and yes once resized smaller the pixel compression of a 36mp d800 helps with masking soft images. at 100% you can tell, thats why i would rather use the 1.4 and crop, at 5.6 i cant tell 500mm alone vs using the 1.4 most of the time. also autofocus works much better, and was better contrast and less CA

 

[Aloicious]

that does look just like the RRS head, I might have to look into one of those....because I added a 600f4 to my arsenal today,

 

[matthewo]

nice... i used a 600mm afs-i on my monopod all day one time, but it was a handfull. but also the afs-i is a few lbs more then the vr.

 

[Mully]

Very impressive! Great capture.