I almost always shoot long, with a long lens. So when I’m out back looking around for the little green guys I just don’t even try for a shot at any birds. I’m carrying a shorter lens so I just assume they are too far, but on this one I went for a shot anyway.

I now know I can push a shot much further than I thought.

I’m typing this out on the back porch so I don’t have the details handy. However this was taken with an OM 12-100 on an OM-1 (1). The image was cropped… a lot.

Marc at Open Source Photography just published an interesting  article on this same subject. Click here to view.