Practicing aerial captures

[c.cloudwalker]

No disappointment. You just took me by surprise because I once had to learn how to shoot from a flying object and that's what came to mind when reading your title

 

[cgipson1]

No disappointment. You just took me by surprise because I once had to learn how to shoot from a flying object and that's what came to mind when reading your title

I understand! I had to shoot from an inverted T-38 once.. it was a blast!

 

[c.cloudwalker]

T-38?

 

[cgipson1]

T-38?

jet trainer.. Air Force.

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Ok. The military is where I learned to shoot from the air. Just from helicopters though and I didn't have to do it upside down

 

[tevo]

Edit: nevermind, already answered.

beautiful photos, #2 is also my favorite

 

[jrice12]

No disappointment. You just took me by surprise because I once had to learn how to shoot from a flying object and that's what came to mind when reading your title

I understand! I had to shoot from an inverted T-38 once.. it was a blast!

Small world, I helped design a piece of equipment on the T38 (at least the recently upgraded ones).

 

[cgipson1]

Edit: nevermind, already answered.

beautiful photos, #2 is also my favorite

Thanks.. I had fun out taking the photos... nice way to spend a couple of hours! Sitting by a pond.. waiting for dragonflies to fly by, ducks quacking, birds singing.. a gentle breeze. I was tempted to take a nap! lol!

 

[kinghen]

Nicely done I like them all!

 

[tevo]

Edit: nevermind, already answered.

beautiful photos, #2 is also my favorite

Thanks.. I had fun out taking the photos... nice way to spend a couple of hours! Sitting by a pond.. waiting for dragonflies to fly by, ducks quacking, birds singing.. a gentle breeze. I was tempted to take a nap! lol!

lol i would imagine! how were you shooting them ? autofocus? or letting them fly into focus? i was attempting to shoot some gulls in flight today, had my camera in auto / AF, was difficult.

 

[cgipson1]

Edit: nevermind, already answered.

beautiful photos, #2 is also my favorite

Thanks.. I had fun out taking the photos... nice way to spend a couple of hours! Sitting by a pond.. waiting for dragonflies to fly by, ducks quacking, birds singing.. a gentle breeze. I was tempted to take a nap! lol!

lol i would imagine! how were you shooting them ? autofocus? or letting them fly into focus? i was attempting to shoot some gulls in flight today, had my camera in auto / AF, was difficult.

Dragonflies are somewhat territorial, and will often fly back and forth within a certain defined range. They will often stop and hove for a second or two near the end of that range, before heading the other direction. That is the best time to shoot them. I was using AF about half the time.. and manual focus the other, but you have to be fast. With a little practice.. it isn't hard. At this particular site, there are a lot of cattails and cane that form a "wall". This dragonfly was flying between me and the "wall".... so his flight was a little more restricted than normal as he couldn't fly out over the water, that helped a lot. When ever another dragonfly would invade his space, he was chase it off and then hover again.. to see if it was gone, giving me more opportunities to get shots. Hope that helps.

Haven't tried shooting gulls.. although I tried some swallows the other day. That was impossible... little guys are fast and totally unpredictable. I will have to work on a way to shoot them. I did get some decent Magpie shots the other day, flying.. but the distance was a little more than optimal.

 

[orionmystery]

Really cool DIF shots..esp like #2.

 

[tevo]

Thanks.. I had fun out taking the photos... nice way to spend a couple of hours! Sitting by a pond.. waiting for dragonflies to fly by, ducks quacking, birds singing.. a gentle breeze. I was tempted to take a nap! lol!

lol i would imagine! how were you shooting them ? autofocus? or letting them fly into focus? i was attempting to shoot some gulls in flight today, had my camera in auto / AF, was difficult.

Dragonflies are somewhat territorial, and will often fly back and forth within a certain defined range. They will often stop and hove for a second or two near the end of that range, before heading the other direction. That is the best time to shoot them. I was using AF about half the time.. and manual focus the other, but you have to be fast. With a little practice.. it isn't hard. At this particular site, there are a lot of cattails and cane that form a "wall". This dragonfly was flying between me and the "wall".... so his flight was a little more restricted than normal as he couldn't fly out over the water, that helped a lot. When ever another dragonfly would invade his space, he was chase it off and then hover again.. to see if it was gone, giving me more opportunities to get shots. Hope that helps.

Haven't tried shooting gulls.. although I tried some swallows the other day. That was impossible... little guys are fast and totally unpredictable. I will have to work on a way to shoot them. I did get some decent Magpie shots the other day, flying.. but the distance was a little more than optimal.

god that almost looks like a paintingg.. nice shot!

and for some reason the concept of panning slipped from my brain cells... forgot to even try to do that with the gulls... i derped >:l


thanks for the advice though!

 

[cgipson1]

lol i would imagine! how were you shooting them ? autofocus? or letting them fly into focus? i was attempting to shoot some gulls in flight today, had my camera in auto / AF, was difficult.

Dragonflies are somewhat territorial, and will often fly back and forth within a certain defined range. They will often stop and hove for a second or two near the end of that range, before heading the other direction. That is the best time to shoot them. I was using AF about half the time.. and manual focus the other, but you have to be fast. With a little practice.. it isn't hard. At this particular site, there are a lot of cattails and cane that form a "wall". This dragonfly was flying between me and the "wall".... so his flight was a little more restricted than normal as he couldn't fly out over the water, that helped a lot. When ever another dragonfly would invade his space, he was chase it off and then hover again.. to see if it was gone, giving me more opportunities to get shots. Hope that helps.

Haven't tried shooting gulls.. although I tried some swallows the other day. That was impossible... little guys are fast and totally unpredictable. I will have to work on a way to shoot them. I did get some decent Magpie shots the other day, flying.. but the distance was a little more than optimal.

god that almost looks like a paintingg.. nice shot!

and for some reason the concept of panning slipped from my brain cells... forgot to even try to do that with the gulls... i derped >:l


thanks for the advice though!

Thanks! Magpies are fun to shoot... they are crazy birds! I love the contrast they have! Post your efforts... be fun to see!

 

[tevo]

Dragonflies are somewhat territorial, and will often fly back and forth within a certain defined range. They will often stop and hove for a second or two near the end of that range, before heading the other direction. That is the best time to shoot them. I was using AF about half the time.. and manual focus the other, but you have to be fast. With a little practice.. it isn't hard. At this particular site, there are a lot of cattails and cane that form a "wall". This dragonfly was flying between me and the "wall".... so his flight was a little more restricted than normal as he couldn't fly out over the water, that helped a lot. When ever another dragonfly would invade his space, he was chase it off and then hover again.. to see if it was gone, giving me more opportunities to get shots. Hope that helps.

Haven't tried shooting gulls.. although I tried some swallows the other day. That was impossible... little guys are fast and totally unpredictable. I will have to work on a way to shoot them. I did get some decent Magpie shots the other day, flying.. but the distance was a little more than optimal.

god that almost looks like a paintingg.. nice shot!

and for some reason the concept of panning slipped from my brain cells... forgot to even try to do that with the gulls... i derped >:l


thanks for the advice though!

Thanks! Magpies are fun to shoot... they are crazy birds! I love the contrast they have! Post your efforts... be fun to see!

i wouldnt know a magpie from a pidgeon..



i need to get over my fear of posting photos.. lol