Can i see your best bird in flight shots.......here is mine.

voicepipes · Mar 21, 2004

Took these today. I have 2 Red Tails that "buzz" my 21st floor balcony all the time. I often sit in my office and watch them come straight at me and at the last second swoop up the side of the building about 2-4 feet away from me!. I'm a bit hampered taking shots from the balcony..I have a pigeon netting in place to keep the "cat IN". It's amazing how fast the hawks are, and tracking them up close is a lot more difficult than I thought. These 4 were the first attempts. Harsh afternoon winter/spring sun Shot in RAW..cropped...touched up in PS. 28-135 IS handheld all at 135 5.6 Last shot was a bit of a fluke...light was just disappearing on my second attempt and shot this as he flew over head...turned out to be a nice silouette.

Jeff

Richard King40278 · Mar 21, 2004

Another Vulture...

and a pelican...

http://www.pbase.com/rking401/canon_digirebel

Norwegian · Mar 22, 2004

elroyie · Mar 22, 2004

All pictures were taken with my 75-300IS.

Daniella68313 · Mar 22, 2004

white-tailed kite:

snowy egret

Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel

Daniella68313 · Mar 22, 2004

BTW, the brown thing in the kite claws is a mouse. He is carying a mouse in both flight shot.

elroyie · Mar 22, 2004

I succeeded to catch it coming out of the water with a fish in his mouth, it was only one shot.

Tom C11968 · Mar 22, 2004

LOL, the bird is real and the sky is real, just not taken at the same time.

)

PaulyOly said:
How did you get the bird and sky so well exposed? What mode did
you shoot this in?

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Tom

Tom C11968 · Mar 22, 2004

PaulyOly said:
PaulyOly said:

Focal Length 400 mm

Click to expand...

Exposure Time 1/1600 sec
Aperture f/8
ISO Equivalent 200
Exposure Bias -1/3

I think there has allready been a thread like this, but with spring
here i was hoping that there were more pics out there. Please
state the lens you used, on or off a tripod and post the shutter
speed aperture. Mine was taken on a tripod using the 400mm f5.6L
and i only got one shot as the bird was so close he was gone before
i could fire again. Only cropped a little at the bottom and right.
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http://www.pbase.com/paulyoly/root

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Tom

Daniella68313 · Mar 22, 2004

wow, you were 20 feet of it? to get that good at 260mm is amazing..you must have been really close!

http://www.pbase.com/image/26251961

Baritee · Mar 22, 2004

Annellyse · Mar 22, 2004

I haven't really had a chance to take too many bird in flight pics, but here are some samples...

1/1600s f/8.0 at 200.0mm iso400 (100% crop. I know, it's oversharpened)

1/4000s f/8.0 at 200.0mm iso400

1/1600s f/8.0 at 200.0mm iso400

Annellyse · Mar 22, 2004

Ok, I just finished looking through everyone's bird in flight pics and mine are really BAD compared to all of yours!

I wish there was an edit button so I could delete mine... LOL... Oh well, maybe some day I'll be able to take better pics!

mart sak · Mar 22, 2004

Hi, i'm a very green newby in the dslr world, but nevertheless here's mine

Shot with a new 70-200 L usm , 1/1600sec, f5.0 , iso400, 200mm.

PaulyOly said:
Length 400 mm
Exposure Time 1/1600 sec
Aperture f/8
ISO Equivalent 200
Exposure Bias -1/3

I think there has allready been a thread like this, but with spring
here i was hoping that there were more pics out there. Please
state the lens you used, on or off a tripod and post the shutter
speed aperture. Mine was taken on a tripod using the 400mm f5.6L
and i only got one shot as the bird was so close he was gone before
i could fire again. Only cropped a little at the bottom and right.
--
http://www.pbase.com/paulyoly/root

Dave Harrison107546 · Mar 22, 2004

PaulyOly said:
Your links don't work, but i like this pelican shot. What mode did
you use?
If you right click on your image and click on properties then copy
and past the url it will show up like this.

Dave's Pelican pic

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http://www.pbase.com/paulyoly/root

Dave Harrison107546 · Mar 22, 2004

Dave Harrison said:
PaulyOly said:

Your links don't work, but i like this pelican shot. What mode did
you use?
If you right click on your image and click on properties then copy
and past the url it will show up like this.

Dave's Pelican pic

--
http://www.pbase.com/paulyoly/root

Click to expand...

Thanks for the tip Paul......I coulden't figure out why my images didn't show up. The pelican shot was taken in P mode. I'm new to the Rebel but I'm slowly figuring out how to get stop motion shots of birds in flight.

Here are a couple more:

pettit · Mar 22, 2004

How about this" bird"?

Taken with 75 - 300 Canon USM

http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=showMyPhoto&albumID=127556916&photoID=127557092&security=cjcUBd

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R/C REPORT Magazine

'Where Traditional Quality
is a Thing of the Past'

RATPhoto · Mar 22, 2004

Annellyse said:
Ok, I just finished looking through everyone's bird in flight pics
and mine are really BAD compared to all of yours!

I wish there was an edit button so I could delete mine... LOL... Oh
well, maybe some day I'll be able to take better pics!

I like the geese.

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http://www.marius.org/eos300dfaq.php

For a gallery of my photographs, see:
http://www.pbase.com/ratphoto

See my profile for my equipment

CHIA · Mar 22, 2004

pettit said:
How about this" bird"?

Looks like the bird & link flew the coupe........

Bugs143839 · Mar 22, 2004

morris said:
The first 2 are manual focus, the 3rd was just after takeoff.
There shot with a Fuji S602 + B-300. Yes I know what forum I'm on,
but the subject was about photography.

Morris

Love that second picture, Morris. Another classic.
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... and I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.

Bugs.

http://www.pbase.com/aja

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