How to Capture Sharp Wildlife Photos?
Still subjects are best captured when a tripod or camera steady of some kind is used. A remote shutter control helps to avoid shaking the camera as the photo is taken. Again, high shutter speeds help too.
I don't normally photograph wildlife, but was out in a park on Saturday and found a blue heron fishing in the park's water feature, a shallow pond of about 10' X 30' with a waterfall, wild pond vegetation, and some gold and larger coy fish. So a wild bird, but not very wild a location. The heron was making dinner of the smaller gold fish, at taxpayer's expense. The coy are about 12" long, so likely too large for the heron's dinner. He seems to have consumed all of the smaller ones though.
I was using one of my Canon 77D cameras and a high shutter speed of about 1/1,000 second, hand holding the camera from 70' away and using my Tamron 18-400 lens for this photo. It looks quite sharp to me, as does the rest of the shots that I took of the heron. This shot is straight from the camera with no altering via photo processing software and it's the original file size too, so just as it came from the camera.
Maybe a little more information about your camera, lens, and settings, plus a few sample photos would help us to help you with your problem.
Charley
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