Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS USM

[dolina]

7th Odyssey Waves National Surfing Competition by alabang, on Flickr

[dolina]

7th Odyssey Waves National Surfing Competition by alabang, on Flickr

Settings: 1/1000 ƒ/8 ISO640 700mm

[dolina]

7th Odyssey Waves National Surfing Competition by alabang, on Flickr

Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiuan,_Eastern_Samar

[McTool]

First post here, just sharing some shots taken around Sydney

[Mr Bean]

@McTool, nice pic's of the wattle bird. They are such fast movers. The first one grabbed me for some reason (colour and background blur perhaps), as much as the BIF pic is more difficult

[Click]

First post here, just sharing some shots taken around Sydney

Very nice pics. Welcome to CR.

[McTool]

Thanks Click and Mr Bean. The BIF was a fluke, but a nice one, the fast focus of the 500 helped, but I had actually focused while the bird was still and thats probaly why its slightly oof.
My favorite is the second pic, but yeah that first one is very nice too, there are several more from that sequence as the bird hopped along that branch looking for grubs to eat.

[McTool]

A few more from the same day

[serendipidy]

Nice photos, mate Welcome to CR

[pj1974]

Dolina... they are really great photos... showing (off!) very well the wonderful poential of that lens.
Thanks for sharing... good job on them.  I love the colours and depth of field you've used.  Will look at some more of your photos on flickr when I have more time (I'm in my lunch break at work).

McTool - welcome! I really like your bird shots with the 500L too. Autumn a bit over a year ago (March 2012) here in in Adelaide, SA, I took several photos of Wattle Birds, New Holland Honeyeaters and a Willy Wagtail - that patiently allowed me to get quite close to them. I had my 70-300mm L (so won't post on this thread).  I was happy how many BIF of mine worked out.

Thanks for sharing all, and I look forward to more photos from Canon's amazing 500mm L f/4 L lens. I would be very tempted to get the 200-400mm L f/4 1.4x lens for wildlife & birding, I think it would do a great job (I love the flexibility of zoom lenses often when outdoors taking photos of aspects of nature - eg landscapes, wildlife, birds, etc).

Cheers

Paul

[canon_convert]

Damn...@dolina those are some amazingly awesome shots
thanks for sharing

[McTool]

Thanks people, its really nice to chat with people who appreciate pics like these. They take a bit of effort and patience, as well as just watching and understanding how the animals are behaving. Most of the shots are cropped of course, some not that much though as the 500 really does have some reach and the birds get used to you if you just stand still and act like a tree 

I'd love to get the 200-400F4 +1.4X, am going to wait to see how the price holds and what other things Canon release, including the much rumoured 100-400 replacement (which was sold to part fund purchase of a very crispy newish 300F2.8 secondhand). The 200-400 is still very hard to get anyway.

On Flickr I'm steve.mack

[dolina]

pj1974 & canon_convert thanks I love to please.

Feel free to checkout my photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alabang/ and add me as a friend.

Steve, lovely images... I also shoot wildlife.