A few in flights

BrentC · May 14, 2018

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Barn Swallow bringing home nesting material by Brent Cameron, on Flickr

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Barn Swallow by Brent Cameron, on Flickr

These capture are a little weird. Not the crops I would like but I caught them at the corner of the frame. Had to do some extending of the background in the last one just to get some space on the left and bottom.

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Female Purple Martin by Brent Cameron, on Flickr

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Male Purple Martin by Brent Cameron, on Flickr

Jeff15 · May 15, 2018

Excellent shooting...

John Hunt · May 15, 2018

Very nice!

HavToNo · May 15, 2018

Great in flights Brent. I know how hard it is to get these little birds in flight.

jcdeboever · May 15, 2018

Those are good. They are hard enough to follow with the naked eye. I'm always amazed when people post them in flight.

BrentC · May 15, 2018

Jeff15 said:
Excellent shooting...

John Hunt said:
Very nice!

HavToNo said:
Great in flights Brent. I know how hard it is to get these little birds in flight.

jcdeboever said:
Those are good. They are hard enough to follow with the naked eye. I'm always amazed when people post them in flight.

Thanks guys!

baturn · May 15, 2018

Great job!

BrentC · May 15, 2018

baturn said:
Great job!

Thanks Brian.

dxqcanada · May 15, 2018

Swallows are tough to shoot ... that's pretty good AF.

DarkShadow · May 15, 2018

Very good shots.

BrentC · May 15, 2018

dxqcanada said:
Swallows are tough to shoot ... that's pretty good AF.

I was at a farm and barn swallows were swooping all over the place and very close to me. I had my 40-150mm and spent 15-20min shooting. I thought how great this was that I was going to get some amazing shots. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. When I took a look at the shots when I got home most of them were just out of focus, actually slight motion blur. That's when I realized I didn't pay as close attention to my settings as I thought. I was 1/1000 under what I should have shot. There could have been some stunning shots but I was only able to salvage those two. You just can't shoot swallows at 1/1600.