This is an uncropped shot of a blue grosbeak that visited my bird feeder. I shot this through window glass because if I dared open the window, the bird would have taken flight. On my desk, I set up a three-legged roof mount (typical of what's used on safari to shoot from the roof of the safari vehicle) with a ball head attached to it. That's what my 500mm lens was attached to. I simply waited for a bird to land on the small branch that I had set up as a perch just above the bird seeds. My settings were 1/125, f/8, 250 ISO. I usually use a much faster shutter with such a long lens, but the camera and lens were very stable and I felt could get away with this speed to hold the ISO down. Of course, being on a tripod, I turned off the image stabilization.
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