Post your Birds in Flight
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Robin W
Senior Member
Those are awesome! You were definitely in the right place at the right time and ready to capture it.
Robin W
Senior Member
These are equally impressive! Wow!
My wife shoots a D500 w/ 500PF 99% of the time.
The following set is from one of her rare times with the 500PF + 1.4x TC. (She makes me proud!)
Thank you, Robin.
You are 100% correct. We all get lucky occasionally.
I came across this feeding frenzy and it was non-stop. There must have been some sort of huge school of shad that came over the spillway at the lake and were gathered in this area not far below. I catually went back the following day and it was still furious. I've been there many (100's of times) before and never witnessed anything like it.Thank you, Robin.
You are 100% correct. We all get lucky occasionally.
Some great captures, what focus settings are you using.
Thank you Mike, much appreciated.
On our D500's, we use AF-C (release priority) and either Single-Point or Group AF Mode. We almost always use Spot metering for birding.
On the Z bodies, I use AF-C (release priority) and either Single-Point, Wide Area Small, or Wide Area Large AF Modes, depending on the circumstances. Having said that, I recently read a few information from someone I respect indicating that Auto-Area AF mode has it's place as well, so I have been playing with it some lately too and having surprisingly good (to me) results.
Most of the shots above were Single-Point, although I believe Theresa's shots of the hawk were taken using Group Mode.
One thing I really miss between the D500/850 and the Z Bodies is the ability to program multiple buttons with various AF-On + Mode configs. As a result, I am (finally) getting reasonably good at rolling thru mode via Fn button + dial spin "on the fly". Lol.
