Comments on: Three Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Bird Photography https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/10/04/three-ways-to-dramatically-improve-your-bird-photography/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/10/04/three-ways-to-dramatically-improve-your-bird-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-1981315 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 20:47:37 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=82829#comment-1981315 In reply to Keith Solberg.

Hi Keith, Better late ….

Sometimes we are better off just realizing that “this image is beyond impossible.”

I could not recommend the 2X on the 200-600 and with either TC, atmospheric distortion would be a huge problem.

with love, a

]]> By: Keith Solberg https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/10/04/three-ways-to-dramatically-improve-your-bird-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-1980872 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:55:46 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=82829#comment-1980872 a little late in commenting, but I really like your tips. one of the problems I have is that with the sun at my back I’m often too far away to get a good close shot. so I end up 45 to 90 degrees to the subject and the shadows interfere. wish I could get closer, but I’m not sure if even waders would help and the park might have rules about wading into the lagoon. using Sony 200-600 1.4 TC on an a-9. a 2X TC would help a little (on the wish list). what about making the a-9 think it has a cropped sensor? that would give me another 1.5X, but potentially degrade the image quality. really like the one legged stance and the upturned bill. very unique.

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