I'm still experimenting with my old Tamron 200-500mm AF lens and the shutter speeds that will freeze the motion of the wings of the large marine birds that entertain me so frequently near my house. Yesterday it was a gaggle of geese, Canada geese by name, I saw their passports, that chose the pond behind my house in which to bath and cavort.
I'm showing this one full size so you can see the detail I was able to get. This is a little drying and fluffing they do after splashing around. exposure data: 1/1000 @ f/8, ISO 800, 500mm, Av, spot metering with a Canon EOS 5D Mk2. The wings are pretty clear but I soon realized that it's because I caught them at the top of a movement in the split second when they stop before completing the big flap.
In this shot the wings appear clear until I crop it about in half.
This is shot at 1/2500 with everything else the same. Looks god until you crop it in half.
The drops of water are pretty clear but the back end of the wings is a little blurred even at more than twice the shutter speed of the first shot.
The big birds' wings move more slowly than those of the little birds like the mockingbirds that serenade us each morning. I'll be working on trying shots like this with shutter speeds at 3200 next time. That means I'll be increasing the ISO by 1/3 stop but the noise is minimal and the noise reduction in Adobe Camera RAW/Lightroon 3 Develop module is really excellent.
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