BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here
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Jack Douglas said:Click said:
+1 Isn't it cool to examine after the fact what is so fleeting when you're there in the moment grabbing the shots! At 14, many moons ago I mounted one of these (road kill) and it's still with me today. Never did find the ears.
Jack
Lol, thanks guys.
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Delightful photo of the pileated woodpecker. You do have a small amount of feather tip blur, but in my opinion, it adds to the photo by giving the impression of speed. Keep on doing whatever you are doing! I typically use a shutter speed of around 1/2000 sec.
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Thanks Nancy and Click. I'm only satisfied in the sense that a short while ago I never imagined I'd have the opportunity to get shots of these amazing birds. OTOH I want a sharper photo. Could IS be a factor in this. I'm using center focus with surrounding expansion and shooting manual for exposure. Maybe I'm expecting too much with the cropping given it's not my 6D. BIF has proven a big challenge for me.
Jack
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Jack, It's a very nice shot, and not bad sharpness considering it's a relatively serious crop and the bird is only about 840x750 pixels. I think the blur on the far wing tip might not be caused by movement but maybe you have focussed on the near wing and so you have front focus, lowering the sharpness of the head. There is a slight white halo around the bird, suggesting vigorous sharpening. How did you sharpen?
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Jack Douglas said:
Don't forget, cropping is the same as using a crop camera. If you use the 1/5 frame for an image compared to the entire frame then the 1/5 frame crop is enlarged 5 times as much for the same image size, so is any motion blur.
Extrapolating that out, if 1/100 is good on FF, then 1/260 should give you the same motion characteristics on a full image from a 1.6 crop, and 1/230 on the 1D MkIV. If you then crop that to 1/5 you are looking at a five fold increase in shutter speed for the same subject motion, or 1/500 for the ff, 1/1300 for a 1.6 camera and 1/1150 for the 1.3 crop camera, sobering numbers.
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Appreciate the comments, guys. AlanF, no doubt I'm expecting too much relative to the pixels I have. I now am growing to appreciate the conflict. When I go 300 X1.4 I'm much more challenged to get a lock on the guy so I guess for now I'm stuck with this kind of result - more practice it'll be and attempts to get in better lighting for a faster shutter. Why does there always have to be such compromises? 
AlanF, I shoot raw with the default level 3 sharpening in DPP but I did use the lens specific sharpening at 65. I never noticed what you have mentioned but maybe it's wise to cut back?
Jack
AlanF, I shoot raw with the default level 3 sharpening in DPP but I did use the lens specific sharpening at 65. I never noticed what you have mentioned but maybe it's wise to cut back?
Jack
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Jack that is a fine capture. PDB's description is spot on. It is much more difficult to get tack IF shots as you have less time to AF on the subject due to tracking and a little faster shutter speed can help. Going to a larger aperture will increase the blur level as your effective DOF is less. f/8 might have helped a little also. Not using IS or changing it to mode 2 could help. The greatest help is going to come from panning practice.
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