BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here

[rpt]

40D with 40mm pancake

Lovely!

 

[Click]

One from this morning. They were too far down range for a super HQ shot but I still think this is nice.

Cool shot.

 

[slclick]

40D with 40mm pancake

Man I just love how the pancake works with silhouettes. Very nice.

 

[Maximilian]

40D with 40mm pancake

Great shot. Congrats.
Wonderful idea, great comopsition and technique.

 

[Maximilian]

They were too far down range for a super HQ shot but I still think this is nice.

Great pic, GraFax. Really nice.
Concerning your thoughts about "super HQ" I think here it was more important to be there and see and capture this special moment with the juvenile and the adult. I would be proud having made this one.

 

[Dylan777]

One from this morning. They were too far down range for a super HQ shot but I still think this is nice.

Beautiful photo. thanks for sharing

 

[Dylan777]

Adds a Gull - also on the brink of being a BIF.
I'm not too pleased that I had to crop it so hard, but there were too much icky stuff on the water surface.

Good timing DominoDude.

 

[khelal]

Canon 7D Mark II with 500 mm lens with 1.4 TC

 

[lion rock]

gulls are fairly easy to shoot, especially when being fed, as this case presents.
Shot in NZ.
-r

 

[lion rock]

Khelal,
Great shot!
-r

 

[jrista]

Canon 7D Mark II with 500 mm lens with 1.4 TC

Nice flight shot! Great pose.


The bird looks slightly soft, though. I assume the 500mm lens is the f/4 L or L II? I'd have expected pinpoint tack sharpness out of that lens and this camera. Out of curiosity...do you know where the lens was focused? I'm just curious, as I've heard a number of reports now about slight softness of fine detail like bird feathers with the 7D II...

 

[ERHP]

Canon 7D Mark II with 500 mm lens with 1.4 TC

Cool angle on the shot! Were you up higher?

Was watching some Ferruginous Hawks over some high altitude grasslands and one swung around and started ringing over me.

 

[Dylan777]

Canon 7D Mark II with 500 mm lens with 1.4 TC

Cool angle on the shot! Were you up higher?

Was watching some Ferruginous Hawks over some high altitude grasslands and one swung around and started ringing over me.

Great capture ERHP

 

[lion rock]

GraGax,
Thanks.
It was part of a machine gun shoot. My wife was trying to feed a pair of ducks but the flock of gulls came by for part of the fun, too.
Left NZ three days ago. In HK for another 2 days before flying back to the US. Thereby ending the trip, and back to the salt mines. Sad to say, I miss work!
-r

gulls are fairly easy to shoot, especially when being fed, as this case presents.
Shot in NZ.
-r

Like the first one, nice sense of movement. Back from NZ or still on holiday?

 

[candc]

Canon 7D Mark II with 500 mm lens with 1.4 TC

Cool angle on the shot! Were you up higher?

Was watching some Ferruginous Hawks over some high altitude grasslands and one swung around and started ringing over me.

thats a great shot of a really good looking hawk, i like the angle and the plumage patterns.

 

[Click]

Canon 7D Mark II with 500 mm lens with 1.4 TC

Great shot.

...And welcome to CR

 

[Click]

Was watching some Ferruginous Hawks over some high altitude grasslands and one swung around and started ringing over me.

Beautiful. I love it. Nicely done ERHP

 

[ERHP]

Thanks GraFax, Dylan, candc and Click!

Totally agree GraFax. Hard to scale them in flight though, unless you get lucky and have another type of hawk flying nearby.

 

[streestandtheatres]

Pair of Northern Shovelers at Heinz NWR this afternoon with the 7D2/400 5.6L. f5.6 @ 1/2500th. Shooting duck BIFs always gives me a sore neck. Those Shovelers can really pull some G's. These two are cruising at about 60 mph.

Nice shot! Especially with them both in focus at 5.6

 

[Click]

Pair of Northern Shovelers at Heinz NWR this afternoon with the 7D2/400 5.6L. f5.6 @ 1/2500th. Shooting duck BIFs always gives me a sore neck. Those Shovelers can really pull some G's. These two are cruising at about 60 mph.

That's a very nice shot, Brian. Well done.