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OneLens- took my 500mm Nikkor f8 mirror lens out this afternoon to our local pond and found Henry the Heron washing his feet. I have owned this lens for a number of years, but have hardly ever used it. Although this shot was handheld, a lens of this length does need to be supported with either a tripod or monopod. The way to ensure a sharp shot is to put your camera into High Speed burst mode and take several bursts. Generally if you rely on a single shot then more often you will get some degree of camera shake due to pressing the shutter release. With a burst mode you will get a few frames sharp once the firing has started.

Use of a long telephoto lens can compress a scene almost into a two dimensional view. A 100 - 300mm Lumix lens set at 300mm was used on my GH5 (200 - 600mm eqv. on a full frame camera). The scene had an overall sea mist fog, but using the curves feature in Photoshop I managed to add contrast.

Just spent a few days in Devon and had a day on Dartmoor, what a fabulous place for photographers! This shot was taken with a Panasonic GH5 fitted with the Leica 12-60mm lens set at 12mm (24mm equiv. on a full frame camera). The picture was shot in full colour and converted to B/W in Photoshop with the Silver Efex Pro 2 filter. The beauty of digital photography is that you can manipulate the photograph at any stage after taking it. Most digital cameras do have a B/W shooting option, avoid using this as you will have far more control in your editing application.