the bird shooters like to come to this place - the tampines river that cuts across the pasir ris park. this was the 2nd time he was here in a period of 3 weeks. with a sigma 28-200mm mf zoom lens, he barely catch a glimpse of birds on the trees, in flight 100 yards away.
the guy next to him, mr chan - a regular bird shooter from the neighborhood, was using a 400mm dedicated lens on his canon eos 7d mark1, captured some very clean and sharp shots. he taught him a few tricks, like use continuous-shoot mode, setting ev higher by +2/3 to 2 depending on how bright the backgorund is, must use at least a 400mm zoom, good distance and steady enough for hand-held shooting, also for more serious shooting, have to be patient to zoom in on one bird, for minutes if not hour to wait for it to fly away or dive into the river.... the action will result in keeper shots. he caught a couple of distant shots of the cranes, the king fisher and another bird... and they left the place when the light got dimmer for any decent shots.
before parting, mr chan said to him, "you want to shoot bird - you must have a bird brain - don't think too much - just aim and shoot with everything set to auto mode."
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