BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here
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Thanks guys. I'll take it for now because I'm struggling to do better. My major obstacle is that I'm backlit and trying to illuminate the shadows with two flashes and of course that means one decent shot only assuming it's fill flash. My observatory faces oppositely and doesn't have that problem but it has others, for example shading of the sun. These guys and others do not prefer me to be visible so to be close I have to be hidden. However, all this is fine for just a winter diversion. 
Riley, finally yesterday a Pileated showed up after many absent weeks; why I don't know.
Jack
Riley, finally yesterday a Pileated showed up after many absent weeks; why I don't know.
Jack
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Jack,
You don't have to struggle. What you're doing is multiples better than what I can do. I feature blurred undistinguished tails, my expertise! If there's a contest for that kind of shooting, I'll win, definitely.
When you have interesting birds, shoot them and post here.
-r
You don't have to struggle. What you're doing is multiples better than what I can do. I feature blurred undistinguished tails, my expertise! If there's a contest for that kind of shooting, I'll win, definitely.
When you have interesting birds, shoot them and post here.
-r
Jack Douglas said:Thanks guys. I'll take it for now because I'm struggling to do better. My major obstacle is that I'm backlit and trying to illuminate the shadows with two flashes and of course that means one decent shot only assuming it's fill flash. My observatory faces oppositely and doesn't have that problem but it has others, for example shading of the sun. These guys and others do not prefer me to be visible so to be close I have to be hidden. However, all this is fine for just a winter diversion.
Riley, finally yesterday a Pileated showed up after many absent weeks; why I don't know.
Jack
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Riley, even though my mother is no longer with me I still hear her voice saying, you have to do good job or the best you can. I can't escape it. 
Jack
I can't escape it. Jack
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Hi Jack.
Providing you are doing your best, no one can ask for more, if your best doesn’t please others that is their problem not yours!
Told to me by a very wise woman, my grandmother.
It looks to me like you always try to do your best!
Cheers, Graham.
Providing you are doing your best, no one can ask for more, if your best doesn’t please others that is their problem not yours!
Told to me by a very wise woman, my grandmother.
It looks to me like you always try to do your best!
Cheers, Graham.
Jack Douglas said:Riley, even though my mother is no longer with me I still hear her voice saying, you have to do good job or the best you can.
Jack
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Valvebounce said:Hi Jack.
Providing you are doing your best, no one can ask for more, if your best doesn’t please others that is their problem not yours!
Told to me by a very wise woman, my grandmother.
It looks to me like you always try to do your best!
Cheers, Graham.
Jack Douglas said:Riley, even though my mother is no longer with me I still hear her voice saying, you have to do good job or the best you can.
Jack
Thanks Graham. You are right and of course I generally do my best unless there is reason to do a "haywire" job. The problem is that sometimes nothing seems good enough because it's not as close to perfection as I might regard possible and all the fretting just makes one miserable. And that's not the best way to "enjoy" photography as a hobby!
Thankfully, I have never held others to my self imposed strictness and try always to accept other peoples best (even if it's crummy), especially children.Hopefully, others thinking of posting here realize that all levels are fine to post since it's more about the fun of sharing. Even some "I came ever so close" would be interesting, so here is one from me. If at first you don't succeed ...
Jack
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Kestrel by Diane and Brian Dorling, auf FlickrThe moment you realize your Camera is still too loud. He was hovering close to me and looked over everytime I took a shot. 5DMK4 on silent/quiet shooting setting. He still carried on hunting though.
Cheers Brian
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Now I really like the kestrel-landing-on-light-pole shot, because that's what I see (albeit more often with starlings) in my urban life. I have a similar shot (not technically as high quality) of kestrel-perched-on-No-Parking-sign, I drag it out for a "humor" spacer slide every once in a while. I think it is worthwhile documenting birds and other life infiltrating "human" territory, as well as the more beautiful shots of wildlife in more natural settings.
The nuthatch shot - it's a start. I commend your effort, because these are not the easiest birds to photograph in flight.
The nuthatch shot - it's a start. I commend your effort, because these are not the easiest birds to photograph in flight.
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NancyP, you're right, we shouldn't have such an aversion to shots in Urban environments but I've cropped out such things.
bjd, lovely, and an experience I wish I were enjoying. I've also found the noisy shutter to be a negative (1DX2 is bad) but now that I've gotten used to it, my awareness of it ruining chances has diminished. Maybe it's just me but many birds are pretty tolerant. That could be because my shots tend to be in locations where humans are around and there is noise in general.
And, isn't it nice when a bird looks at you. I've even shouted to try to achieve that.
Jack
bjd, lovely, and an experience I wish I were enjoying. I've also found the noisy shutter to be a negative (1DX2 is bad) but now that I've gotten used to it, my awareness of it ruining chances has diminished. Maybe it's just me but many birds are pretty tolerant. That could be because my shots tend to be in locations where humans are around and there is noise in general.
And, isn't it nice when a bird looks at you. I've even shouted to try to achieve that.
Jack
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Hi Jack,Jack Douglas said:NancyP, you're right, we shouldn't have such an aversion to shots in Urban environments but I've cropped out such things.
bjd, lovely, and an experience I wish I were enjoying. I've also found the noisy shutter to be a negative (1DX2 is bad) but now that I've gotten used to it, my awareness of it ruining chances has diminished. Maybe it's just me but many birds are pretty tolerant. That could be because my shots tend to be in locations where humans are around and there is noise in general.
And, isn't it nice when a bird looks at you. I've even shouted to try to achieve that.
Jack
he was concentrating on his prey looking down and every time I took a shot he looked over to me, as if to say "Do you mind not doing that its ruining my concentration?". He did get the mouse in the end and is getting very tolerant of me. I did take the Kestrel shots sat in my car. I think they get tolerant if people are around, they don't get tame, but stay around a lot longer than other "wilder" Birds would.
The Dunnock in my garden will wander around between my feet if I just stand still when he arrives.
I have had some pretty tame Great Tits in my garden, its even better when a Bird flies straight towards you, on purpose!
Cheers Brian
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Hey Brian, good to hear you're enjoying the little guys just like me. A foot of swirling snow and heavy gusting winds and I was just out replenishing the feed. For us it's the chickadees that are so lovable.
Jack
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