SHORT AND SWEET 2.
1. What you should be looking for in a shot like this
is how well the legs are spread. The position of the legs makes or breaks pictures of walking or running animals. When they are spread apart, the graphic design is more pleasing and the image has kinetic energy. If the legs are close together, the picture seems static.
When photographing white subjects on white backgrounds, it may be tough for the autofocus mechanism to lock onto the subject. Plan for that just in case. You may have to focus manually. In this shot of winter ptarmigan, the eye-focus technology in my Canon R5 locked onto the eye of the middle bird.
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4. Fast moving subjects coming straight at the camera
When using daylight white balance, which I do for all my outdoor shooting, dawn and dusk images tend to go very blue. Some photographers remove the color, but I like it. It’s moody and even mysterious. If you shoot on AWB, the deep cobalt blue color will be mostly eliminated.
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is a challenge for older autofocus mechanisms. If you think your camera can’t follow focus, even on a fairly large area like this little girl sliding on ice in Japan, prefocus on some point in front of her and then start shooting just before the subject reaches that spot. §
