Birds Came across these missiles in Lucca Tuscany recently swifts, or martin not sure

[spudhead]

Ok I was on a walking tour around Lucca Tuscany and spotted these swifts, martins please correct me if you can Id, so 40 plus people ear pieces in, I see these and wonder off I have 3-4 minutes to grab what I can including changing lens to 100-400 before I get the ear hole bashing from the guide for not following and listening. so they are what they are but buggers to nail

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 1600

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 1600

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 1600

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 1600

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 1600

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[Unframed Dave]

Swifts to my eye.

Nice shots, they are the masters of the skies.

 

[iain clyne]

Well caught. They are not an easy thing to catch in flight. They are Swifts.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Excellent Gary.

 

[spudhead]

Swifts to my eye.

Nice shots, they are the masters of the skies.

Thanks Dave this maybe the second or third time I have tried to nail these bullets, so a work in progress hopefully will get it right a some point

 

[spudhead]

Well caught. They are not an easy thing to catch in flight. They are Swifts.

Yep rubbish on bird id Iain thanks I would like to get measure of these at some point

 

[spudhead]

Excellent Gary.

Thanks Kev excellent is too higher praise some work to do to get to grips with these very fast targets

 

[Deleted Member 5003]

They are swifts , the indented tail design and narrower back facing wings are the give away.......

Nevertheless Martins, Swallows or Swifts, yes they are Buggers to capture and the shorter the
focal shooting distance the harder they are to shoot...on account of the higher relative velocity.

 

[Deleted Member 5045]

When I first got the A7RV I committed half an hour one day to getting a shot of some tiny things like these, and I was happy enough with my results to not go back to that again yet. I like to relax with my photography and shooting these is pretty intense so I can't see myself doing it too often.

 

[Deleted Member 5003]

Its a challenge, but good fun to brush up those shooting skills occasionally.

 

[spudhead]

When I first got the A7RV I committed half an hour one day to getting a shot of some tiny things like these, and I was happy enough with my results to not go back to that again yet. I like to relax with my photography and shooting these is pretty intense so I can't see myself doing it too often.

Yep Clint these were just there I was supposed to be looking at buildings and listening on the ear piece to the guide so having had a run in with sand martins I did what I could in the 3-4 minutes I had

 

[Deleted Member 5045]

Yep Clint these were just there I was supposed to be looking at buildings and listening on the ear piece to the guide so having had a run in with sand martins I did what I could in the 3-4 minutes I had

Amazing that you got anything in that quick time at all! I was watching their flight patterns for about 5 minutes seeing if there is some reoccurring behaviour there before I even contemplated pulling the camera to my eye.

 

[Deleted Member 5003]

200mm- 600mm is not the best lens for fast moving images such as these birds, dependant upon the shooting distance....i find the 70-200 with or without
the 1.4 Tc provides for faster panning etc and generally i try to get as close as i can to make this lens with the A1 camera effective for focus and cropping as required......

 

[spudhead]

sand martins with 200-600

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 4000

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 3200

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 3200

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 3200

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 2500