Trying to catch a Sparrow in flight

[coastalconn]

Happy 2013!
I decided to step it up a little more this year. I had really crappy light so I had to shoot at 1600 and wide open and still only had 1/640th, this is only slightly cropped so I had almost no DOF. I thought about trying an off camera flash, but I have no idea how to set one up. This one came out the best and I thought it was pretty cool...


Sparrow in flight by krisinct, on Flickr

 

[Derrel]

Wow--that's a pretty good shot man!!!!

 

[cgipson1]

Nice shot! They are hard to catch... I like that you left the wings soft, showing some motion!

 

[dxqcanada]

Nice shot ... this is one of those cases where motion blur works with the subject.
I think this image would not be as good without it.

 

[BlackSheep]

That's a great shot!
Love the motion blur in the wings.

 

[thetrue]

Wow, just wow. If you keep stepping up your game like this, you'll be too busy getting paid by NatGeo to come on TPF anymore!

 

[matthewo]

very nice sir. you should be the spokes person for tamron, I think you do more with that lens then the makers thought was possible.

 

[mishele]

Wow, is right!! Amazing shot!! :hail:

 

[coastalconn]

very nice sir. you should be the spokes person for tamron, I think you do more with that lens then the makers thought was possible.

Thanks Everyone! I sent Tamron an email about that, but apparently they weren't interested

 

[Drake079]

Love the shoot... I agree with others that the shutter giving a nice blur on the wings makes the picture.