Success Again Today with Swallows in Flight

After yesterdays little outing I couldn't help to quickly drop into  the same spot again this afternoon while on my way home.
Anyway it was a lot quitter than yesterday but the Welcome Swallows did present themselves close by a few times and I managed a few keepers again.

This is getting addictive

Very nice. The first is brilliant. Red dot, or just EVF?

Red dot. The only one I got with EVF was the Fairy Martin on yesterdays post, not too far down. For these guyz the red dot is very handy but I prefer the EVF for bigger slower birds

Martin.au wrote:

Very nice. The first is brilliant. Red dot, or just EVF?

Very impressive pictures, congratulations and well done!

Which lens were you using?

Best wishes

Hugh

40-150 pro + mc-14

In case you don't know you can see tagged products on bottom of my 1st post.

cheers

HughS wrote:

Very impressive pictures, congratulations and well done!

Which lens were you using?

Best wishes

Hugh

even better than yesterday's

Hehe lets hope the trend continues

Hopefully I can get out quickly again in the next 2 days.

Trevor Carpenter wrote:

even better than yesterday's

Wonderful photos, Vass. I've found swallows to be one of the most challenging subjects to photograph given their characteristic erratic flight and ability to turn in an instant.  This makes the clarity of your shots all the more appreciated.

I think there's a red dot in my future, short money for such a useful tool.

Nice shots, the 2nd one really shows how these birds are built for speed.

If I was getting results like this from swallow BIF I would be totally addicted! As it is, I can't geta single good pic!

Thanks

I do find they fly a certain path a lot so it does help when I can predict where they will be flying in from. But at other times they can be all over the place.
The red dot does help but I wonder what the firmware 4.0 will be like with optical view simulation thing. This might be great for birds further away or mid range.

sderdiarian wrote:

Wonderful photos, Vass. I've found swallows to be one of the most challenging subjects to photograph given their characteristic erratic flight and ability to turn in an instant. This makes the clarity of your shots all the more appreciated.

I think there's a red dot in my future, short money for such a useful tool.

It went past like a bullet for that shot, shocked I got that one.

Paul Pasco wrote:

Nice shots, the 2nd one really shows how these birds are built for speed.

Hehe, maybe you need a red dot Geoffrey

As addictive as it gets I don't think doing this every day or every weekend will be practical terms of shutter actuations. I fired like 200 plus for each of those quick sessions.

So many shots just out of focus, out of focus or empty of swallows due to that sudden turn or change in direction

Hen3ry wrote:

If I was getting results like this from swallow BIF I would be totally addicted! As it is, I can't geta single good pic!

Went out again this arvo but unfortunately the clouds ruined what might have been a better day. There was sun for the first 10 minutes and did manage a shot before the clouds sent me packing.

These are really fun pictures and your skill level shines. Really well done.

Super catches, keep 'em coming. The 1st one would make a great print.

Looks like you will be running out printing ink, another great shot.

I got out from about 10am to just past midday today and got some beauties. here are some of todays, i'll post more later and my favourite from today either Thursday or Friday.
Here is the 1st half anyway
Enjoy!

Wow! I know envy is a sin, so I guess on these I'm guilty!

Very impressive!

Is this what you were using?: http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-V329200BU000-Dot-Sight-EE-1/dp/B00STR9K1G/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1443626759&sr=1-1&keywords=olympus+ee-1

Can you tell us how specifically you use it? Do you hold your eye up to it like you would the view finder? Or hold it at arms length? Inquiring minds. It sounds like you still miss a bunch of shots, right? So are you using autofocus? I imagine you need really really fast autofocus too?

This definitely looks like something I should add to my list.