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Blue Skies, Blue Birds
- Thread starter Chris Calohan
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Robert Watcher
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Nice captures
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Fabulous shots, Chris!
....and so beautiful! What is so surprising along with the good looks of this little bird is the length of its feet!
Otherwise it looks magical, by some art design company, and brought to life by magic songs!
These claws are such amazing instruments that allow the bird to grip on a twig and feed while at any angle.
That is as amazing as flight itself!
Thanks for this demonstration of nature’s automatic brilliance by the staggeringly success of survival of fitness of endless samples until the right technical answer wins out in a great pair of legs!
Asher
....and so beautiful! What is so surprising along with the good looks of this little bird is the length of its feet!
Otherwise it looks magical, by some art design company, and brought to life by magic songs!
These claws are such amazing instruments that allow the bird to grip on a twig and feed while at any angle.
That is as amazing as flight itself!
Thanks for this demonstration of nature’s automatic brilliance by the staggeringly success of survival of fitness of endless samples until the right technical answer wins out in a great pair of legs!
Asher
Andy brown
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Excellent images Chris.
I find myself increasing fascinated by flight and by birds in particular as the years go by. These are fantastic.
I find myself increasing fascinated by flight and by birds in particular as the years go by. These are fantastic.
Peter Dexter
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Stunning images. I especially like the first.
Chris Calohan
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Thanks for the appreciation of how hard it is to shoot small birds in flight. There are a plethora of these Bluebirds in my area so it is a good shooting opportunity, but like most small birds (these guys will fit easily into an adult's semi closed hand) they are very fast. Here's two shots just after leaping from a fence edge and getting air. Like Andy, I too am facinated by birds in flight and love the structure of the wings at each rotation and how the feathers change as per action such as taking off and especially landing.
Getting Air
Getting Air
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Chris,
It shows well in your picture with sequential shots!
What is your camera and lens setup and your frame rate? Do you use tracking?
One can really appreciate and personally feel and empathize with that effort and intent.
The bird’s “flight take off” is so impressive!
.....but after millions of years, no doubt these tiny fellows just do it effortlessly, without thinking, from ancient memory locked in constantly refined circuits!
The ability to have animal behavior written with a conditional statement “IF, then” is responsible for that flight happening each time, so perfectly!
....and also for you being able to judge when to take the pictures!
Asher
It shows well in your picture with sequential shots!
What is your camera and lens setup and your frame rate? Do you use tracking?
One can really appreciate and personally feel and empathize with that effort and intent.
The bird’s “flight take off” is so impressive!
.....but after millions of years, no doubt these tiny fellows just do it effortlessly, without thinking, from ancient memory locked in constantly refined circuits!
The ability to have animal behavior written with a conditional statement “IF, then” is responsible for that flight happening each time, so perfectly!
....and also for you being able to judge when to take the pictures!
Asher
Chris Calohan
Well-known member
These were shot with the D500 and my 24-120 as the 200-500 on this camera makes tracking these little guys quite the chore. f/8, 1/2500, ISO 400 +.07EV
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Don Ferguson Jr.
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Chris, nice series.
Don
Don
Andy brown
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Chris, for me, Da Vinci’s bird in flight sketches come instantly to mind.
Imagine if the great man could have seen these images!!!
I dare say he would have wept.
Brilliant stuff.
Imagine if the great man could have seen these images!!!
I dare say he would have wept.
Brilliant stuff.