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<blockquote data-quote="Felisek" data-source="post: 468288" data-attributes="member: 23887">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...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felisek, post: 468288, member: 23887"] 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... [/QUOTE]

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