BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here
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I picked up an R1 recently, and this morning was the first chance to take it out for a walk at a local park that is home to a pair of nesting osprey. The female was stubbonly sitting on the nest refusing to pose/perform (RUDE! haha) and the male was nowhere to be found. After some time, I settled for some squirrel, egret and heron portraits and headed home. Before I reached the parking lot, I spotted the male at the edge of a patch of trees on the far edge of the pond. I camped out a bit, and before long he spotted a fish and dove for it. I thought I was going to finally get the "money shot" of the osprey rising out of the water with a fish in its talons, but he came up empty handed. So did I.
The R1 tracking and 40fps made it "easy", but I'm kind of glad he didn't get a fish because I would have been really upset. See, the camera was up to the task but I wasn't - I kept him in the frame all the way down but at the last split second I lost the target and so did the camera. I picked him up again just after he came out of the water and the camera locked on instantly. So here's what me and my measly 24mpx camera ended up with
The R1 tracking and 40fps made it "easy", but I'm kind of glad he didn't get a fish because I would have been really upset. See, the camera was up to the task but I wasn't - I kept him in the frame all the way down but at the last split second I lost the target and so did the camera. I picked him up again just after he came out of the water and the camera locked on instantly. So here's what me and my measly 24mpx camera ended up with
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It does indeed help to use a zoom lens (200-800) when birds are in flight. You can then quickly zoom out, focus on the subject and zoom in further. Beautiful photos!
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A shot I have been trying to get for a couple of days. I'm in a friend's flat in Tuscany and a Swifts occasionally fly by at their usual breathtaking speed past a window. I can track distant ones and get a tiny image. But, there is only a fraction of a second of getting a close up, and with this I even got a good angle. R7 + RF 100-400mm.
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4 osprey images...St Vrain State Park, CO
2 red tail hawk images...Erie, CO
All with the R5 + RF to EF adapter + 100-400L IS II + 2x Tele
2 red tail hawk images...Erie, CO
All with the R5 + RF to EF adapter + 100-400L IS II + 2x Tele
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Pretty clear who's better at catching fish, though in fairness the osprey is probably not distracted by an iPad all that frequently.
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I like this one! No matter of the reed in the foreground! Be careful: "d" and "f" are next to each other. I don't think you have a "reef" in Germany
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That guy is doing it for the sport. Osprey is doing it for surviving!
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