getting lazy

[momji1971]

Well just got back from a very educational trip to Bempton cliffs in Yorkshire.

Educational because I normally have my 500mm glued to my eye and very rarely take it off. However, the lens has been in Japan for three months (don't even ask!) forcing me to use my little 70-300vr 'toy' lens.

Now to get decent shots I really had to work hard. Watching the Gannets, learning their routines, getting in the right place at the right time, general field craft I'd somehow hadn't used in a while.

Managed to get very close to the birds, close enough that i wouldn't have come away with the shots I had using the 500! Really got me back to the basics of wildlife photography and I loved it!

Titled this thread "getting lazy" because I think thats how I'd become. Instead of using the 'craft' I've learnt over the past three or so years. I was relying on the length of the 500 instead, to get me where i needed to be.







regards.
Stu.

[big bill]

Nice set of pics Stu,its true what you say that you do get used to a certain lens and all the basics of fieldcraft go out the window and laziness creeps in its the same in photography in general most people will stick with a certain gender and will not push themselves to try some thing else outside their comfort zone .
We are all guilty of this myself included mine is Birds and Landscapes and now and again will dip my toes into close up but not for long