BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here
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After a month went again to check for baby Red-tailed Tropic bird. Instead found two adults there (very strange!). The grass is annoying there! After that had the opportunity to take a photos of courtship (I have seen this many times but always from long distance, this time they were close). Birds are actually ascending backwards (this is for video!)! And few photos of "regularly behaving" birds.
And one stupid, gross mistake: Went to my backpack (just 1-2 meters from the tripod/camera) to drink water when a White-tailed Tropic bird appeared - no more than 30-40 meters, if not closer from me. It came from behind the nearby cliff and passed before I could get the camera in my hands. It's the only Tropic bird I'm missing in my collection! I'm trying not to think about this but it comes nonstop to bite me
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And one stupid, gross mistake: Went to my backpack (just 1-2 meters from the tripod/camera) to drink water when a White-tailed Tropic bird appeared - no more than 30-40 meters, if not closer from me. It came from behind the nearby cliff and passed before I could get the camera in my hands. It's the only Tropic bird I'm missing in my collection! I'm trying not to think about this but it comes nonstop to bite me
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Not acceptable when it happens to you (off course I mean my missed photo, not that bird telling me what it thinks- the bird is OK!).Great shots, ISv. And for the last one, as I said before: Shit happens
Whatever - White tails are nesting on the Islands (on Oahu they are not that common or may be they are just dispersed around in relatively small number) and I'm sure one day (damn it it could be yesterday!!!!) I will got them!
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Some BIF tries on passing hooded crows at Kos, Greece.
Therefore my "light" setup with limited AF.
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/10, 1/800, ISO125-160
Therefore my "light" setup with limited AF.
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/10, 1/800, ISO125-160
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A yellow-legged gull above Kos, GRE.
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8, 1/1250, ISO200
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8, 1/1250, ISO200
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In my hotel at Kos island I recognized that as soon as nobody was in the pool, the barn swallows and house martins were drinking out of the pool - in flight.
It was a real joy seeing them doing it, each in a real individual style. Maybe also depending on the individual need to cool down.
Some of them took a full bath, some just put the head under water and the smartest managed to just touch the surface with the beak.
I took two evenings and about half an hour before supper to try on them with my 200D - definitely not the right tool for the task.
But out of about 200 pics I had more than 10%, maybe 20% acceptable keepers. About 1000% more than with any try with my 5D4 at home before.
Surely the setup was much more predictable with the pool as limited area and the water as a quite plain bg.
But still, I'm absolutely positively surprised with the outcome.
Here's the first set of results.
Please keep in mind that the 200D gives me 5 frames at max speed before rapidly slowing down.
So I was mostly trying to get the shots on the main action, around the "dive".
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8, 1/1250, ISO400, centre AF point, selective metering.
It was a real joy seeing them doing it, each in a real individual style. Maybe also depending on the individual need to cool down.
Some of them took a full bath, some just put the head under water and the smartest managed to just touch the surface with the beak.
I took two evenings and about half an hour before supper to try on them with my 200D - definitely not the right tool for the task.
But out of about 200 pics I had more than 10%, maybe 20% acceptable keepers. About 1000% more than with any try with my 5D4 at home before.
Surely the setup was much more predictable with the pool as limited area and the water as a quite plain bg.
But still, I'm absolutely positively surprised with the outcome.
Here's the first set of results.
Please keep in mind that the 200D gives me 5 frames at max speed before rapidly slowing down.
So I was mostly trying to get the shots on the main action, around the "dive".
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8, 1/1250, ISO400, centre AF point, selective metering.
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I ended up with these two pics being the best out of them.
Personally, I'm about to say that the first one will be - IS - my best pic in 2023.
I don't know how I should top it. It's just pure joy and delight that I could manage to get it -with a 200D!!!
Second is a 1:1 detail of it. Third is from that sequence, too.
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8, 1/1600, ISO500, centre AF point, selective metering.
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Definitely yes!
It would have been sharper.
Because of AF, AA filter and better s/n from the sensor.
And the keepers would have been more.
I had some with the birds diving and doing other things - all missfocussed.
But it’s a great feeling, that I could do it with a 200D, too.
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My number of keepers has greatly decreased since going over to the R5 and worse still the R7. Shooting at 20 or 30 fps means culling a huge number of very acceptable shots to keep just the best one. On the other hand, if you want to buy the storage and never look at them again, you could keep the lot.
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I agree with you.
I'd define "keepers" as the number of photos worth keeping. Or better said, those I can decide from, which I finally will keep.
The "non-keepers" to me are those, that are technically not worth it.
I haven't turned to e shutter yet, because I first want to optimize my AF settings and get used to the new body.
And I don't think I want/need more than the 12 fps possible with mechanical shutter. So I can try to avoid rolling shutter probs, too.
And as you maybe already know, I not so much into GIFs
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I don't know, if some yellow-legged gulls are vegetariean or even vegan
This one was flying over and looking at the vegetable fields.
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8 and f/16, 1/800 and 400, ISO400
This one was flying over and looking at the vegetable fields.
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8 and f/16, 1/800 and 400, ISO400
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