Comments on: Bald Eagles Braking to Land with the HH 400mm f/2.8 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2023/09/11/bald-eagles-braking-to-land-with-the-hh-400mm-f-2-8/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:14:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2023/09/11/bald-eagles-braking-to-land-with-the-hh-400mm-f-2-8/comment-page-1/#comment-2049103 Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:15:44 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=87412#comment-2049103 In reply to Keith Solberg.

Hi Keith,

I was stopped down to f/4 by error; I forgot to lower the aperture to f/2.8 when I removed the 1.4X teleconverter. As the distance to the large subject was 120 feet, d-o-f at f/2.8 would have been more than 4 1/2 feet, far more than great enough to cover the entire bird. Stopping down to f/4 would have had no effect on the sharpness of the subject. And the background was so far away that it would not have been effected at all by a smaller aperutre.

with love, artie

]]> By: Keith Solberg https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2023/09/11/bald-eagles-braking-to-land-with-the-hh-400mm-f-2-8/comment-page-1/#comment-2048875 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:21:07 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=87412#comment-2048875 Hi Artie, I like #1 better because of the background and also because it’s a juvenile. White or mostly white backgrounds aren’t my preference. Also, for me, adult eagles are over photographed. (Yours are an exception because you capture them in very interesting positions.) As I understand it, stopping down increases your DOF, which probably ensured the whole bird was in focus, from the wing tips thrust forward to the tail feathers bringing up the rear. Also, it didn’t alter the blur of the background noticeably. Nice. I could be totally wrong, but I’m still learning.

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