Cheers! It was taken at the Farne Islands, Northumberland, England. Staple Island to be precise. I've posted some more shots on my 365 thread.
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Cheers! It was taken at the Farne Islands, Northumberland, England. Staple Island to be precise. I've posted some more shots on my 365 thread.
Indeed; an exceptional shot
A shot to be proud of.
Great captures,I see your getting the feel of the lens
Thanks Mike. Well, it is not all perfect yet. I still need to learn to quickly change camera and lens settings when necessary. You know, birds in flight are not like landscape, they don't wait for you!
For example, in the top two pictures I got so excited by the bird (kestrel? can anyone recognise it?) appearing out of nowhere that I forgot to zoom in and left the lens at 260 mm from some previous shots. Very silly! As a result, I had to crop a lot, while at 500-600 mm I could have filled the frame and get much better shots.
Also, I keep forgetting to change the shutter speed from BIF (needs to be about 1/1600 s) to more static sitting/floating birds, where 1/300 is probably enough, taking into account good OS. As a result, I took quite a few pictures with an unnecessary high ISO.
Mind you, even in landscape photos I often forget to change exposure compensation set for a shot long time ago...
It looks like a Marsh Harrier to me. I've only seen them in the wild occasionally at at a long distance so I'm not 100% on their ID. If not a Marsh Harrier I'm confident it is some sort of Harrier.
I still forget to drop my ISO when switching from BIF to static subjects, I think I'm starting to get better at remembering though.
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Rooftop jumper
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Kestrel and Jet
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Well done with the tree swallow @canuck257
