another sparrow in flight (no edit needed this time)

[coastalconn]

Took my thoughts from yesterday and set up in a different spot this morning.. I present my personal best Sparrow . Comments welcome..

House Sparrow in flight 3 by

 

[D-B-J]

I see motion blur on the wingtips... Scrap it!!!

Just kidding, that's a beautiful shot. Nicely done.

Jake


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[matthewo]

Nice, you might want to bring highlights or exposure down a bit.

Maybe you could use radial tool in the new camera raw. I use it a good deal for making dramatic lighting

 

[WesternGuy]

Kris, great shot, I mean what is a little motion blur on the wings :mrgreen: . The OOF guy in the background is a bit of a distraction, but you should be able to process that out a bit in post.

WesternGuy

 

[coastalconn]

I see motion blur on the wingtips... Scrap it!!!

Amazing right? 1/2000th sec and still motion blur

Nice, you might want to bring highlights or exposure down a bit.
Maybe you could use radial tool in the new camera raw. I use it a good deal for making dramatic lighting

I don't have new camera raw, googled it and guess it's a plug in for PS? Maybe I have it in PSPx4? I went back and forth with the exposure might be a touch hot, I would agree..

Kris, great shot, I mean what is a little motion blur on the wings :mrgreen: . The OOF guy in the background is a bit of a distraction, but you should be able to process that out a bit in post.

WesternGuy

Thanks WG I don't know, I almost think the guy in the background adds a little depth to it. Perfect backgrounds bore me lol

 

[flying_gadget]

Wonderful shot and I've been checking out you Sparrow posts. Nicely done.

Okay, truth be known I'm a Sparrow addict. I love the markings, the colours and the fine feathering details they have. I practise on them in our Lemon tree, they love that tree and I pre-focus and just wait for the take off's and landings. Excellent practise and IMO, darn cute little birds.

Anyway well captured and great timing.

Danny.

 

[lambertpix]

Outstanding photo. Remarkable pose, and well-shot. Do you think a HSS strobe would help freeze motion at all for something like this?

 

[The_Traveler]

Thanks WG I don't know, I almost think the guy in the background adds a little depth to it. Perfect backgrounds bore me lol

Yessir

 

[Braineack]

great capture, love the 2nd sparrow in the BG.

 

[sm4him]

Gorgeous! I personally like a little motion blur in the wings of a bird in flight, especially the little songbirds. After all, they're IN FLIGHT, they're MOVING--a little motion blur gives that feeling of movement.
I also love the background--not just the colors, but the OOF "extra" sparrow. Again, to me, it lends a bit of interest.

 

[coastalconn]

Thanks again everyone!

Outstanding photo. Remarkable pose, and well-shot. Do you think a HSS strobe would help freeze motion at all for something like this?

Hmm, I'm not sure, I haven' done much strobe stuff. I would like to know the answer. Maybe MatthewO will chime in, he uses flash quite a bit with his birds.

 

[matthewo]

Worked for my humming bird shots. A lot of mine were at 1/200 - 1/400 sec and i was getting sharp wing tips most times.

It really depends on a lot of things. I think the main reason it worked well with hummingbirds because it lit the wing via flash duration and that showed up on the sensor and trumped the slightly blurryness if that makes sense.

Think of it like light painting on a long exposure, but now we are putting a 1/20000th sec flash duration to "paint" or light that moment in time, then the sensor records 1/200th sec but mostly just picks up that sharp well lit 1/20000 sec blast

I like to use flash, but with the bracket, better beamer, flash cable, and flash it really adds a lot of size and weight to an already big setup. Its pretty mandatory to use a monopod then, probably 15+ lbs. using the 500mm f4 of coarse.

Fp or the newer flashes are helpful so when you want to keep shutter speed high and not be limited to the 1/250th flash sync

 

[wackii]

Nice shot... How do u like the Sigma so far?

 

[matthewo]

I would like to add, a lot of times its just timing.

Get a wing on the turn around a shutter speed doesn't need to be fast, but i have had some blurry king fisher wings at 1/2000th as well

 

[TKD]

Maybe a bit over exposed for my taste but… the motion, the composition, the DOF, the background….SUPERB!