I don't shoot a lot of wildlife photography. I'm bringing a 70-200 f2.8. For portraits I'm usually shooting f1.4-2.8 , and for landmarks around f8-11. What type of f-stop range will I normally be using to photograph birds, giant tortoises, and big lizards and still get some nice bokeh?
Thanks for any insight.
Geoff
If it's really sunny out, you can increase your shutter speed (1/2000th or higher maybe), lower the exposure compensation, and/or use an ND filter to limit the amount of light. Shutter speed and exposure compensation would be the easiest and cheapest. If you go too dark on the ND filter, you'll have focusing issues. If you have a sunny day at home, try the shutter speed option to see how it works out. You'll be able to shoot wide open or close to it.
Thanks, I have a D750, so it's 1/2000 and ISO 100. But it's pretty common to shoot wildlife wide open? I wasn't sure if generally I'd have to go F4 or F5.6 to keep the body sharper -- depends on my distance to the animals as well I guess.
I think many of the people who shoot wildlife as their main profession are using 400-600mm lenses which usually don't go below f/5.6 anyway. So you could use f/5.6 and be in that same arena. The higher f-stop will also help limit the light for you so it could be a welcome addition. And you'll still get that nice bokeh if you've got some distance between your subject and the background. If you have an f/2.8 lens, you might want to run it around f/4 anyway though since that's usually the sharp sweet spot for most f/2.8 lenses.