Sep 7, 2015, 05:15
Hi everyone
Having shared a few of my tame bird shots, it makes sense to offer a wild bird shot! Here's a sparrow hawk. He's chasing goldfinches across the lake. You wait all day for a half decent opportunity and then in a glorious flash of a few seconds, it's there. If you can pot the shot, you have it captured for ever in its merciless carnivorous beauty.
The shot was taken at 400mm f7.1 and ISO 400 at 1/500 - obviously the light was not ideal. I was using D610 so daren't go higher on ISO for more speed and the shot doesn't really bear much more cropping than I've already done. He's flying at 30-40kph.
Have a good day!
Jeff
Having shared a few of my tame bird shots, it makes sense to offer a wild bird shot! Here's a sparrow hawk. He's chasing goldfinches across the lake. You wait all day for a half decent opportunity and then in a glorious flash of a few seconds, it's there. If you can pot the shot, you have it captured for ever in its merciless carnivorous beauty.
The shot was taken at 400mm f7.1 and ISO 400 at 1/500 - obviously the light was not ideal. I was using D610 so daren't go higher on ISO for more speed and the shot doesn't really bear much more cropping than I've already done. He's flying at 30-40kph.
Have a good day!
Jeff