the mallards were a'flappin.....

traunerk

A few shots from yesterday as I snuck away for 25 minutes while picking up Chinese food for dinner (please don't tell the wife why it took so long....)

All taken about 1 hour or less from sunset with the 70-300DO IS mostly at 300....I think a couple of these are among my best bif's to-date.

Regards...Keith

ashby

Very nice shots, Keith. The last two are special.

Osprey Whisperer

Well done there Captain Kirk. No trouble with tribbles. Your tracking beam was dead on. Nice captures. Time to celbrate with a little Vina. ..ughm wine.


Cheers

BMP

gluwater

Those are really nice. I've been trying to get some BIF lately and just suck at it. Would you mind posting your aperture and shutter speeds? That first one is really nice, I like how it's walking on the water.

Nick

ginger_55

Those are great birds in flight, but I really like the one walking on water!

My fave of all!

ginger (did you have to run after him?)

traunerk

re aperture and speed...
most of the time I was shooting at ISO 800 with f/6.3 or f/7.1 around 1/800 to 1/2000 of a second. I would guess most of the sky shots have a little +exposure comp as well. If there's a specific photo, you're curious about, I'd be happy to post the exif.

Regards...Keith

gluwater wrote:

Those are really nice. I've been trying to get some BIF lately and just suck at it. Would you mind posting your aperture and shutter speeds? That first one is really nice, I like how it's walking on the water.

Nick

traunerk

Thanks Ginger...

But if you saw me, you'd know I can't possibly run that fast!

Regards..Keith

ginger_55 wrote:

Those are great birds in flight, but I really like the one walking on water!

My fave of all!

ginger (did you have to run after him?)

traunerk

Bird Man...
Yes though actually is was my cool Vulcan logic that allowed me to make camera adjustments on the fly as mallards zipped by overhead. No emotions involved at all.:):

Regards...Keith

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

Well done there Captain Kirk. No trouble with tribbles. Your tracking beam was dead on. Nice captures. Time to celbrate with a little Vina. ..ughm wine.


Cheers

BMP

Osprey Whisperer

"Eyy Kahptin... I'm given ya all she's got and she can't give ya no more"

"Her warp coils are dead and she's suffered all she kahn handle."



BMP

gluwater

traunerk wrote:

most of the time I was shooting at ISO 800 with f/6.3 or f/7.1 around 1/800 to 1/2000 of a second. I would guess most of the sky shots have a little +exposure comp as well. If there's a specific photo, you're curious about, I'd be happy to post the exif.

Regards...Keith

Thanks, that's all I was looking for.

Nick

Harryb

Excellent shots Keith. Those were not easy captures.