HEART wrote:
From another site:
Shooting with large aperture telephoto (300mm f2.8, 400mm f2.8, 600 f4, etc.) at maximum aperture with lens hood right up against the netting will do the job. With lens' front element only inches away from netting, combining with these lenses' minimum focusing distance being 5 feet or greater, and their large apertures, the nettings will barely, if at all, registered on the resulting photos. Additionally, if there is AF difficulty in such situation, manual focusing on a pitcher is easily manageable.
Now, if the netting is too closely meshed, focal length is shorter, aperture is smaller, and/or lens is positioned too far back away from netting, then you won't have shallow enough of depth-of-field to blur away the obstacle. Shooting a 35mm at f5.6 2 feet away from the same netting, you'll most likely have a nicely focused black netting with blurred action in the field.
Hope these will help!
From another site: br br Shooting with large aper... (
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It does. Short time back I tried to photograph a hawk in a cage with a 50mm and was about 10 feet from the cage. Needless to say it did not turn out well.
Thanks for the info. Bill