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Rhys

Rhys

p/longshot · joined 1 day ago

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photographs birds that won't sit still

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hard agree. mine: autofocus made everyone lazy. track a bird in flight on manual or it doesn't countfelt this in my bonesi want to disagree so badly but i can't find the flawcan we pin thiscan we pin thisi have nothing to add except: yeswait, is this actually true? someone fact check memild correction in the spirit of pedantry: still a great postsomebody had to say it. glad it was youfelt this in my bonesthis thread is already better than half the internetgonna need a part 2 on thistried this after reading your post. took three nights and a drive out of town but i found the smudge. genuinely moving ithe best camera is the one you have on you. cliché because it's true
Rhys
longshotin c/outdoors · 1 day ago
Bird photography is 5% camera, 95% learning to sit still

Spent two years thinking I needed a longer lens. Then I spent one morning sitting motionless by a creek and got closer to a kingfisher than 600mm ever got me. The birds were never too far away. I was too loud.

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