Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 5:30 pm
From April / March 2015 - booted eagle
There were plenty of them around this time!
There were plenty of them around this time!
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Birds In Flight
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Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 9:04 am
Great pics here!
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 11:22 am
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).
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).
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 11:56 am
I prefer the second one of the Giant kingfisher, because you do not get distracted by the reflection 
Great photos
Great photos
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 3:39 pm
Thanks for sharing that valuable piece of knowledge, BT!
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 4:52 pm
some interesting and very nice
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 8:41 pm
Subadult pale chanting goshawk in the KTP March / April 2015
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 8:42 pm
And a black-chested snake-eagle - same time, same place 
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 9:01 pm
Very clever
Re: Birds In Flight
Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 9:11 pm
the first one is better... but the second bird is better too 
well done
well done