Birds Birds in Flight Thread - Post Your Shots Here

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

It needed some cropping, but I finally got a shot of a Wood Duck in flight. This one shot out of the grass and I was lucky to get the shot. Probably should have taken the shutter speed down a bit, but I did not have any time to think. It was the only item to come out of my trip to the Mass Audubon Sanctuary. Like always, lots of room for improvement. View attachment 86143

Excellent. BIF are the hardest to shoot.

 

[Doug Herr]

• ILCE-1
• FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 1250

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[Phil Vetra]

Whole lotta shak'n go'n on.View attachment 86551

 

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

• ILCE-9M3
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 259.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 6400

 

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

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This not a reply to anyone. I just couldn't figure ut how to post a photo!

 

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

 

[Soundmike]

Nice shots, presumably they are taken at a bird of prey centre.

 

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

Nice shots, presumably they are taken at a bird of prey centre.

Not exactly. They are taken at the Raptor Foundation which s a Raptor rescue and rehab centre. I am a wheelchair user. I am lucky enough to be able to photographs of these beautiful birds at this centre. Most of my animal photgraphs are taken at rescue rehab breeding of endagered species places. You can donate to them. I paid a for years access. I live surrounded my US bases and can only assume this is where non native birds are from. Not just from there and I could well be wrong but there is a trade in such birds all over the world.

 

[Soundmike]

Thanks for the reply . See you are using the Mk3 A9 does it have bird eye recognition or just like my Mk2 animal and human.

 

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

Thanks for the reply . See you are using the Mk3 A9 does it have bird eye recognition or just like my Mk2 animal and human.

I no longer own the A9iii. I thought it was overkill. I kept until the A7RVI was out. It has 67mp and 30fps and precapture. I need to makes sure that was going to be enough for BIF. it was. Even at 20FPS. I also had the A1ii for a while but didn't like it. I couldn't tell you why.

 

[THXGEEK]

The hummingbirds are migrating south and my feeder is seeing more activity!

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 100-400mm F4.5 GM OSS
• 377.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 16000

• ILCE-1M2
• FE 100-400mm F4.5 GM OSS
• 377.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 16000

 

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

The hummingbirds are migrating south and my feeder is seeing more activity!

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Excellent shots. Am surprised to see they were taken with a shutter speed of 3200. Would never have thought you's get their wings. to not blur. I always shoot birds at 1/5000. I shoot sitting and it is usually a very sunny day be it summer or winter. We don't have hummingbirds in the UK as far as I am aware.

 

[iamdlewis]

We don't have hummingbirds in the UK as far as I am aware.

Hummingbirds are only found in the Americas.

 

[THXGEEK]

Excellent shots. Am surprised to see they were taken with a shutter speed of 3200. Would never have thought you's get their wings. to not blur. I always shoot birds at 1/5000. I shoot sitting and it is usually a very sunny day be it summer or winter. We don't have hummingbirds in the UK as far as I am aware.

Thanks.

Most of my wildlife images are from my back desk in the late afternoon or evening. I have heavy woods behind my house so I am usually at a fairly high ISO, so I try not to push the ss too high. When the weather cooperates, I am sometimes rewarded with very lovely light as the sun is setting.

 

[Colin Andersson-Hamill]

Thanks.

Most of my wildlife images are from my back desk in the late afternoon or evening. I have heavy woods behind my house so I am usually at a fairly high ISO, so I try not to push the ss too high. When the weather cooperates, I am sometimes rewarded with very lovely light as the sun is setting.

I never worry about the ISO. I've had ISOs at 12,800 quite regularly, and the denoising in my photo lab software gets rid of it. I've even had it higher than that, and it still gets rid of it.

It sounds like you live in a truly lovely place. I'm imagining a house on the edge of the woods or something, maybe even a wooden house. That's sort of my dream home, as long as I can ignore the fact that you have snakes and bears and that sort of thing. That would rather ruin it.

I think I'd rather have a log cabin in the woods here in Britain, in Scotland, although I don't think my wheelchair would do too well in the snow. You wouldn't do too well in Scotland. Why? Oh yeah, not exactly flat. If those last two sentences were a bit confusing, it's because my husband spoke, and this program is very good at picking up speech.

 

[THXGEEK]

Actually, I am in overly-suburban Northern Virginia, not far from Dulles airport. I purchased just as they were developing this part of the community and picked out the last lot at the end of the street. I have an open lot to my west - which the HOA maintains and will never be developed - so the critters (both 2 and 4-legged) have a place to roam. I haven't seen any bears (yet), but we have plenty of snakes. Gotta watch when stepping over logs!

I'd love to visit Scotland (my ancestral home), but that will have to wait a few years. Tell your husband we also have our fair share of hills here in Virginia.