Mike Spinak
pro member
In recent threads, Bev Sampson and John Nevill have both displayed lovely photos of birds in flight. Though Art Morris hasn't shown any bird in flight photos yet on OPF threads, he also has lots of 'em. I'm hoping we can get a thread rolling for displaying and discussing lots of bird in flight photos.
Please, let's try to do the following:
1) Discuss what you show, so that we can all learn from each other's techniques and ideas;
2) Post only one picture per post, or one related series per post, in order to minimize confusion.
Like this:
Forster's tern with fish.
This picture was taken with an aperture of f/5.6, at 1/1,250 of a second, at ISO 250, with a Canon 1Ds Mark 2, a Canon 300 f/4 IS lens, and a 1.4 teleconverter, hand-held.
This shot was the result of assessing the situation, understanding what was going on, and developing an effective strategy. In this case, there was a major Forster's tern rookery, on an island just a little ways (less than 100 feet) offshore. There is also a lake, where the terns fish. When the tern's chicks got to be an age that requires very frequent feeding, I stood on a high embankment, directly in the path between the lake where the terns fish, and the rookery, where they were bringing the fish to feed their young. Terns were flying overhead, within about a 50 yard wide swath, with fish dangling from their mouths, every few minutes. I stayed and photographed until I got the shots I had wanted.
Let's see your bird in flight shots, and hear the stories of how you got them.
Mike
www.mikespinak.com
Please, let's try to do the following:
1) Discuss what you show, so that we can all learn from each other's techniques and ideas;
2) Post only one picture per post, or one related series per post, in order to minimize confusion.
Like this:
Forster's tern with fish.
This picture was taken with an aperture of f/5.6, at 1/1,250 of a second, at ISO 250, with a Canon 1Ds Mark 2, a Canon 300 f/4 IS lens, and a 1.4 teleconverter, hand-held.
This shot was the result of assessing the situation, understanding what was going on, and developing an effective strategy. In this case, there was a major Forster's tern rookery, on an island just a little ways (less than 100 feet) offshore. There is also a lake, where the terns fish. When the tern's chicks got to be an age that requires very frequent feeding, I stood on a high embankment, directly in the path between the lake where the terns fish, and the rookery, where they were bringing the fish to feed their young. Terns were flying overhead, within about a 50 yard wide swath, with fish dangling from their mouths, every few minutes. I stayed and photographed until I got the shots I had wanted.
Let's see your bird in flight shots, and hear the stories of how you got them.
Mike
www.mikespinak.com
