Post your Birds in Flight

Chris@sabor · May 14, 2016

wev said:
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Wev, was that really shot at 1/320th?

wev · May 14, 2016

Chris@sabor said:
Wev, was that really shot at 1/320th?

Yep -- dull and gray out and shooting in semi-shade to boot. Fast as I could go with any hope of a usable image.

Chris@sabor · May 14, 2016

wev said:
Yep -- dull and gray out and shooting in semi-shade to boot. Fast as I could go with any hope of a usable image.

Do you think it was just a well timed shot because that's way to slow to freeze wings? Great shots under the conditions!

wev · May 14, 2016

Chris@sabor said:
Do you think it was just a well timed shot because that's way to slow to freeze wings? Great shots under the conditions!

Yes, surely -- have to trust to luck and shoot a full burst. It's the only way I have worked out for the sort of conditions I often shoot in. I could bump the max ISO to 3200, but that almost always results in wildly over exposed mages.

wev · May 14, 2016

Chris@sabor said:
Do you think it was just a well timed shot because that's way to slow to freeze wings? Great shots under the conditions!

Should have added that you will get the illusion of a frozen wing when, as in this case, it is on a flat plane to the viewer. At the top of its sweep, there is a short dwell before it reverses direction, so you get a sort of composite up/dwell/down that appears frozen, albeit fuzzy. Any other position and the wing is just a blurred streak.

I spent way too much time thinking about these things when I should just get out in the sun more often.