BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here

AlanF

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Alan, what gear and what level of cropping? Very nice acquisitions!

Jack
The dark side of D500 at 500mm PF. 100% crops (1pixel = 1 pixel of original). The combo just doesn't miss with every shot in a sequence sharp at 10 fps. I am hoping that the R5 + 100-500 will match this.
 
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Jack Douglas

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The dark side of D500 at 500mm PF. 100% crops (1pixel = 1 pixel of original). The combo just doesn't miss with every shot in a sequence sharp at 10 fps. I am hoping that the R5 + 100-500 will match this.
Just thinking. If I were shooting with the 1DX2 such that I ended up with a 100% crop, meaning a lot of free space around the bird when I shot, I don't think I'd miss very often. Alas, as you know, I'm short on pixels. My hopes align with yours although I'm not sure I'd be springing for a 100-500 but maybe.

Jack
 
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becceric

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Just a couple more for fun. I like to do different things to display sequences and the overlay thing is something I came up with a while back.

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Common Goldeneye overlay in Affinity.

Clicky to see it animated.

7D2 / 100-400L V1 @ 400 / 1/1000 / ISO 200


This reminded me of a local Bald Eagle nest I have frequented the past few years (at a lawful distance of course). Here is one of my landing montage attempts.Montage 2.jpg
 
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Jack Douglas

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This reminded me of a local Bald Eagle nest I have frequented the past few years (at a lawful distance of course). Here is one of my landing montage attempts.View attachment 189024
I like these and should pursue it myself for the pleasure and artistic value it has. Maybe you have some advice to offer? I can see that it doesn't always work perfectly and that it takes quite a bit of effort to do it justice and I guess that's where practice makes perfect.

I did video of a Quetzal flying to a nest that was 4K 60 and looking at each frame in super slow motion is very similar. Unfortunately at 60 FPS the shutter speed and ISO requirements, especially in rain forest, make it very challenging to get the sharpest, most well defined images, not to mention they are only 8M JPEGS.

I guess that's where a sequence of shots taken on different occasions shines (sharper and better resolution) but then you need to have the same angle of approach, the same lighting, etc. to really make it work well. Are you tripod mounted, when trying to do this?

Jack
 
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