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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dramtastic" data-source="post: 247365" data-attributes="member: 16805"><p>Lots of good advise. I also usually go out to shoot a specific subject. I've taken shots of that subject that many times I already have the values set before I walk out the door. As you know I take a lot of bird shots. The only things I usually change on a walk are the EV and the min shutter speed. Stills of birds are usually between 1/125th and 1/500th depending how far away. Birds in flight usually 1/1000, 1/1250 or 1/4000th. ISO is set to auto and I'm in aperture priority. My lens performs best at F8 with the TC on and I usually have it at F5.6 for the TC off. One thing I've never mentioned here is my hand holding technique. I leave the tripod collar and tripod plate on the telephoto when I'm using that lens. I find I can grip this nicely while sitting in the palm of my hand. I shoot a lot of images as out of that there are about 10% that I like enough to post not including those that look exactly the same. In the case of your insect shots, if I see and insect I may take 20-30 shots of that insect if I can from all sorts of angles and distances. Out of that again I might have a few that I really like. In regards to subjects I'm not familiar with I will study on how to shoot that from different online resources before I go and try. When we were in Vanuatu last year I knew there was an area with waterfalls. I went online, read up, took some notes and went out and shot. I was happy with the results.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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