One nice thing about not having much light is you can do creative motion-blurs more easily, and sometimes that is all you can do.
As these sandhill cranes walked about, I moved my camera and lens along with them. – “panning” at the same speed and clicking away. You never know what you are going to get, so shoot a lot.
Plus the shutter is closed during the exposure (on SLR cameras), so you have to just keep moving along slowly and hope you get one that works.
Sandhill cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Reserve, New Mexico.
Canon 1D Mark III. Canon 500 mm + 2x teleconverter. ISO 1000. f/8 at 1 second. +1 EV.
