Birds in flight firsts

birdbonkers84 · Mar 5, 2017

No.1

Fulmar giving me the eye by Mark Coull, on Flickr

No.2

DSC_2718 by Mark Coull, on Flickr

Second outing this weekend with the Tamron lens, first time trying birds in flight (dam it's tough).

Dean_Gretsch · Mar 5, 2017

The feather definition is really nice on the first!

BrentC · Mar 5, 2017

Good stuff. It is tough. I've been practicing myself for the last three weeks and still a small percentage of keepers. Great detail on the first one.

ZombiesniperJr · Mar 5, 2017

Great set love the first one!!!!

birdbonkers84 · Mar 6, 2017

Dean_Gretsch said:
The feather definition is really nice on the first!

Thanks, the first shot is my fav of the lot.

BrentC said:
Good stuff. It is tough. I've been practicing myself for the last three weeks and still a small percentage of keepers. Great detail on the first one.

I've got others to upload once I sifted through them.

ZombiesniperJr said:
Great set love the first one!!!!

Cheers, it was shot at 300mm on my Tamron lens.

birdbonkers84 · Mar 6, 2017

I've currently been trying shooting with auto ISO, but I've set its max to 6400. Does anyone else use auto ISO for shooting birds in flight or you just manually set it each time? Are there pros and cons to doing this?

jcdeboever · Mar 6, 2017

Coull3d said:
No.1
Fulmar giving me the eye by Mark Coull, on Flickr

No.2
DSC_2721 by Mark Coull, on Flickr

No.3
DSC_2718 by Mark Coull, on Flickr

Second outing this weekend with the Tamron lens, first time trying birds in flight (dam it's tough).

Super start. My first ones were solid, baby blue images.

MSnowy · Mar 6, 2017

Nice set!

ZombiesniperJr · Mar 6, 2017

Coull3d said:
I've currently been trying shooting with auto ISO, but I've set its max to 6400. Does anyone else use auto ISO for shooting birds in flight or you just manually set it each time? Are there pros and cons to doing this?

I use auto iso for any wildlife photography

goooner · Mar 6, 2017

Great start. I also use auto ISO and have recently started using d9 focussing when I have blue/white background. In AF C mode.

birdbonkers84 · Mar 6, 2017

jcdeboever said:
Coull3d said:

No.1
Fulmar giving me the eye by Mark Coull, on Flickr

No.2
DSC_2721 by Mark Coull, on Flickr

No.3
DSC_2718 by Mark Coull, on Flickr

Second outing this weekend with the Tamron lens, first time trying birds in flight (dam it's tough).

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Super start. My first ones were solid, baby blue images.

Thanks!

MSnowy said:
Nice set!

Thanks!

goooner said:
Great start. I also use auto ISO and have recently started using d9 focussing when I have blue/white background. In AF C mode.

Cheers! Planning on going back regularly over the year as there is Puffins!!! I got some shots of Razorbills and I think a rock pipit or Skylark, but I'll get a better look tonight.