BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here

[wildlifeandmore]

An Oystercatcher in the NC Outerbanks. Handheld from a skiff in the Pamlico Sound. Older shot from September 2010. Canon 7D, Canon 300mm f/2.8L IS, f/5, 1/1600, 200 iso

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Don.
Wow that's great, a beautiful dreamy picture of perfectly focused sky, there seems to be some dust on your sensor though! ;D ROTFLMAO

Cheers Graham.

Thanks one and all for the inspiration to keep trying, and the target to aim for, but just once could you all stop raising the bar so high! ;D

Cheers Graham.

Ok..... How's this....

 

[Don Haines]

Hi Don.
Wow that's great, a beautiful dreamy picture of perfectly focused sky, there seems to be some dust on your sensor though! ;D ROTFLMAO

Cheers Graham.

Thanks one and all for the inspiration to keep trying, and the target to aim for, but just once could you all stop raising the bar so high! ;D

Cheers Graham.

Ok..... How's this....

You know what they say.... If you haven't screwed up, persevere.

 

[Don Haines]

Hi Don.
Wow that's great, a beautiful dreamy picture of perfectly focused sky, there seems to be some dust on your sensor though!
Ok..... How's this....

That's not dust....it's oil. I wanted my camera to have a sensor like the new Nikon so I sprayed some oil on it

 

[djurma11]

Took this at Yellowstone two summers ago. Used my 70-200 II to track this raven against the hills of Lamar Valley.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi folks.
Serendipidy, great sequence, looks almost as fierce as the eagle fight!
Eric, Islander, Eldar, wildlifeandmore, great shots, djurma, great silhouette.
Madphotography, can you have another try, as I'm sure you have seen your pics didn't post properly..

Cheers Graham.

 

[MADphotography]

Here is my attempt at birds in flight . I used a canon 7D for most of these photos the first one was with a T1i. Had to crop one of then so sorry about IQ.


Over the Trees


Lift Off


Soaring

 

[crb595]

Here is a Great Blue Heron shot with a 5D and 100-400.

 

[EricFiskCGD]

Hi folks.
Serendipidy, great sequence, looks almost as fierce as the eagle fight!
Eric, Islander, Eldar, wildlifeandmore, great shots, djurma, great silhouette.
Madphotography, can you have another try, as I'm sure you have seen your pics didn't post properly..

Cheers Graham.

Thanks.

 

[Krob78]

Very nice B&W conversion Oscar! I like it!

 

[scyrene]

A barn owl composite that unexpectedly hunted over a wetland (while I was looking for stonechats) - very far off, but that helped with the autofocus, which is usually too slow and unreliable for birds in flight with my setup (500L II + 2x II). Considerable cropping required.

Second, lots of siskins on a garden feeder gave me the opportunity for some passerines in flight shots. Actually mostly wing-flapping displays, but it's nice to get shots of small birds doing something other than perching Poor light meant pretty high ISO required for this - flight-freezing shots needed 1/1600-1/3200 sec, so it was ISO 2500-4000 with the bare 500 and with the 1.4x III.

 

[Don Haines]

Tundra Swans

 

[gary samples]

1Dx
600mm

 

[Click]

Awesome shot Gary 8)

 

[Cog]

 

[CampKookooskoos]

Some water foul in flight over Jefferson County, Kansas, yesterday afternoon: wood duck, blue-winged teal, mallards out for a stroll, and buffleheads skimming the water. All taken with 70D & Tamron 150-600 at f8/600mm.

 

[clicstudio]

Seagulls in Miami

Shooting a model on the beach… So, I took a few shots for fun…
All you need is a few pieces of bread and in seconds you have dozens of Seagulls fighting over it. They get so close, you can almost hand feed them

Canon 1Dx, Canon 24-70 F2.8L II, ISO 100, F3.2, 1/2000

 

[ScubaX]

Acorn Woodpecker
Canon 5DMKIII Canon 70-300 F4-5.6L IS @ 300mm 1/1000 f5.6 ISO 320 Hand held and cropped
Anna's Hummingbird
Canon 5DMKIII Canon 70-300 F4-5.6L IS @ 300mm 1/400 f7.1 ISO 100 Hand held and cropped

 

[JumboShrimp]

This solitary skua was skimming a pristine snow bank while creating an angelic shadow as a bonus. (70D with 55-250 STM at 250mm.)

 

[JumboShrimp]

Two shots of black-browed albatross skimming the waters by our ship in Antarctica. In the "pair" shot, I particularly like the way their eyes are level but the wings are tilted.