These are sandhill cranes I photographed at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. I used a Canon 100-500mm telephoto along with a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. This image is uncropped. Even though these birds are relatively slow flyers, I still used a fast shutter speed to guarantee even the wing tips would be sharp. My settings were 1/3200, f/10, 3200 ISO, and I was shooting at 20 frames per second. The focus point arrangement – a very important setting when shooting birds in flight – was a center cluster of 9 points. The early morning sun was behind the birds off to the right, and that created the nice rim lighting on them.
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