Birds In Flight

[Mel]

From April / March 2015 - booted eagle



There were plenty of them around this time!

[Flutterby]

Great pics here!

[BluTuna]

Thanks to Peter Connan, I've now discovered a new use for Manual mode.

For action shots, particularly birds in flight, I set my camera to Manual 1/1600 shutter speed and F/8 aperture and then set Auto-ISO on and set the limits to 100-3200. When shooting, the shutter speed and aperture stay constant and the camera adjusts the ISO setting automatically between 100 and 3200 to compensate for light.

The downside of this mode is that the noise due to high ISO can become a factor, but I would rather have noise than blur because noise can be compensated for in post processing to a certain extent.

I now take all of my action shots using this method and I'm pretty pleased with the results.

These were taken at Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary. The camera settings for each was 1/1600 @ F/8 with ISO-Auto ON; limits set to 100 and 3200. The ISO is shown against each image in ().


Redknobbed Coot (ISO 720).


Yellowbilled Duck (ISO 720).


Purple Heron (ISO 720).


Pied Kingfisher at the hover (1. ISO 560: 2. ISO 500).



Giant Kingfisher : the same picture cropped differently - I can't make my mind up which one I prefer (ISO 800).



Giant Kingfisher hovering!!!!! (both at ISO 400)



And finally a diving Giant Kingfisher (ISO 1600).

[Lisbeth]

I prefer the second one of the Giant kingfisher, because you do not get distracted by the reflection

Great photos

[Mel]

Thanks for sharing that valuable piece of knowledge, BT!

[nan]

some interesting and very nice

[Mel]

Subadult pale chanting goshawk in the KTP March / April 2015

[Mel]

And a black-chested snake-eagle - same time, same place

[Lisbeth]

Very clever

[nan]

the first one is better... but the second bird is better too

well done