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RE: The WRONG way to photograph birds in flight!

Glad to hear it, thank you. What I should have talked about is the reason for walking around with a single lens in the first place. It's kind of an exercise that forces you to work a lot harder for your shots, but may pay off in more creative thinking.

With a zoom lens, you may tend to zoom in and out, frame the shot, go 'click' and move on. With a prime lens, nothing is that easy. You have to zoom with your feet and that leads to trying different angles... from the left, what about from over here? I feel it enforces creative thinking and problem-solving.

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I agree. I can't hold my camera very steady without a tripod these days, and to be honest, I have always hated tripods except for certain things like long exposures etc. So, I often get camera shake with my larger lenses (not enough to notice on Steemit, but enough to rule out an image being used as stock.) I tend to grab my camera with my 1.4 50mm prime lens, and zoom with my feet! I have gone on overseas trips where it has been my only lens with me!