This is a pied kingfisher I captured in Botswana. It was hovering over the Chobe River preparing to dive for fish. I should have used a faster shutter speed -- 1/4000th would have been perfect for a small bird in flight. Instead, my shutter was set to 1/2000th of a second, and as you can see, the wings are not perfectly sharp (as I prefer them to be). I took this from a boat, so it was especially challenging because of the movement and also because I was using 700mm of focal length (a 500mm lens plus a 1.4x teleconverter). Even the slightest movement is magnified with a long lens. My other settings were f/14 and 800 ISO. I shot this in 2013; had this been today with the Canon R5, I would have used 1/4000 and f/22. The small aperture would provide enough depth of field so the entire bird would be sharp given the super fast shutter.
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