The other Swallows in Flight from yesterday

I thought id'e just start a clean new thread with these.

Here are the other half of yesterdays Welcome Swallows

Enjoy!

Those are, if possible, even better than the previous ones!

Fantastic! I particularly like the swallow that is sideways, almost vertical, coming at you. Superb!

Setter Dog wrote:

Pedagydusz wrote:

Those are, if possible, even better than the previous ones!

Fantastic! I particularly like the swallow that is sideways, almost vertical, coming at you. Superb!

I agree with Antonio completely! I can't imagine how they could be any better. Thank you!

Jack

Another vote for the sideways swallow.

Amazing captures!

Here is a link 3rd post down
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3906696?page=2

Michael Kilpatrick wrote:

These are excellent. Maybe you have already explained how you are following these swallows, so sorry if I'm asking you to repeat yourself, but are you using a red dot sight, or some other trick to make it easier, or is it just skill?

Cheers

Also when I come to think of it I don't know how hard it is for others to track fast moving targets. I have basically been into shooting since a child for a few decades and for me I guess following targets with red dots or any other sight devices feels very natural and I have a lot of experience with such things.

Michael Kilpatrick wrote:

Good description of the technique.

Thanks

Much better than the first post. I guess the red dot sight works out great for this.

Thank you all for the kind comments

I need you to send me some of your swallows.  Mine are much more antisocial.  Great set of images.

hehe i'll leave a map of the USA for them

drj3 wrote:

I need you to send me some of your swallows. Mine are much more antisocial. Great set of images.

Very nice shots! It really helps if the Sun is at a good angle too (which I'm sure wasn't an accident). I see like me you like 1/2500 for this sort of target

I bought an EE-1 Red Dot Sight after having a fairly torrid time trying to photograph Swifts with my GH4 and it does help, as well as the wider FoV helping to avoid losing the bird it's better for eye-strain if you are aiming at a nest waiting for a bird to dive out, which can take ages. I find guessing the Parallax can be a pain with small targets at varying ranges though.

I think there is little doubt that you are the Swallow King.  Unfortunately all of ours are leaving us so it will be spring before I can see whether I can come anywhere close to you,.  I doubt it.

Thanks for the comments everyone. Will do some more swallows soon when I'm free.