The puffin colony on Elliston Island near Bonaventure, Newfoundland has amazing activity. Birds flying everywhere. The puffins were relatively far from the shooting position, and all of the images had to be cropped even though I used 700mm of focal length -- the 500mm plus a 1.4x teleconverter. I tried a 2x, but 1000mm was actually too hard to work with. The angle of coverage was so narrow that I couldn't follow the puffins in flight. They were too fast. By the time I found them in the viewfinder, they would be out of range. My settings for this picture were 1/3200, f/8, 800 ISO. The camera was sett to manual exposure mode and automatic ISO. I hand held the camera and lens because a tripod inhibited me too much in following the birds.
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Aug 8, 2017, 4:15:22 PM
Jim - That's great to know, Frank. I'll remember that next time.
Aug 8, 2017, 3:46:14 PM
Frank Binder - I was recently in Elliston photographing these puffins. On certain days (we had one of them) if you stay away from the cliffs in the viewing area and are calm.....the puffins will land on the edges of the viewing area in droves. In the three hours I was there, I'd estimate there were over 50 puffins at any one time on the viewing area. At some points several landed within 3 ft of me.