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<blockquote data-quote="crycocyon" data-source="post: 125184" data-attributes="member: 13076"><p>Patience, vigilance, and it looks like you have a sufficiently long lens (with a great dx camera no less) to handle the task at hand. What is the maximum aperture of the lens? You'll lose some light with the polarizer but it can certainly help bring out parts of the image lost to reflection, including reflections of water on the whale itself. I would recommend a tripod because then you can have the camera up all the time with that long lens ready to shoot and you can frame it on the water in a way that you pre-focus close to infinity, and then when you see the whale you just rotate the camera towards it and shoot right away. You could even set the aperture so you have good depth of field going to infinity and set the camera on manual focus. That way the camera won't be hunting for the whale with autofocus, losing precious split seconds to find it in the frame. So you stay with the camera looking down the lens at your field of view and pan using the tripod for whales across the horizon so that when you see one you just shoot because where your eye points will be where the lens is pointing.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="crycocyon, post: 125184, member: 13076"] Patience, vigilance, and it looks like you have a sufficiently long lens (with a great dx camera no less) to handle the task at hand. What is the maximum aperture of the lens? You'll lose some light with the polarizer but it can certainly help bring out parts of the image lost to reflection, including reflections of water on the whale itself. I would recommend a tripod because then you can have the camera up all the time with that long lens ready to shoot and you can frame it on the water in a way that you pre-focus close to infinity, and then when you see the whale you just rotate the camera towards it and shoot right away. You could even set the aperture so you have good depth of field going to infinity and set the camera on manual focus. That way the camera won't be hunting for the whale with autofocus, losing precious split seconds to find it in the frame. So you stay with the camera looking down the lens at your field of view and pan using the tripod for whales across the horizon so that when you see one you just shoot because where your eye points will be where the lens is pointing. [/QUOTE]

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