ducks and chickens

cdonovan

What magical setting should I be using to capture birds in flight??? Oh dear I really made a mess of the ones that I tried to capture...anyone with suggestions for me!?!

Here are a few of the ones that turned out!



cute couple...they are such beautiful animals

Looks Sad doesn't he...seems lonely...life ain't easy being a chicken


My Fav Chicken of the dump variety so far!

Montec

I would use a minimum of 1/500 shutter and whatever Aperture for the effect you want. You might be limted with this depending on your lens.

Also use your cameras AF mode that follows the subject.

Then you need to perfect your panning technique...that's pretty much what I do for BIF and it works well, others might use a different style.

Google 'photographing birds in flight' for a plethora of information.

Have Fun!

JillG

Montec wrote:

I would use a minimum of 1/500 shutter and whatever Aperture for the effect you want. You might be limted with this depending on your lens.

Also use your cameras AF mode that follows the subject.

Then you need to perfect your panning technique...that's pretty much what I do for BIF and it works well, others might use a different style.

Google 'photographing birds in flight' for a plethora of information.

Have Fun!

The other advice I'd add is to just go out and shoot ! Take lots of shots, for every one good one you'll get 50 OOF (or more)I like shot #1, there is something so cute about ducks.

Jill

Harryb

Good shots For fligh shots you want to check out the birds behavior. Its far easier to get them coming in than trying for a fast reaction shot. Once you have an idea of their flight path into your location start tracking them coming in and start clicking off shots as they approach.

raptorcaptor

One thing to try and get used to for flight shots is to shoot in manual exposure. Get a reading off the sky and add approx. 2stops (depending on the weather) Take some test shots and check your histrogram and adjust for the type of bird. Shooting in manual allows you to shoot the bird with any background and still nail the exposure. If you are shooting with a canon camera set it to AIFocus and expand all your focus points, and once you get focus lock on your bird hold down on your shutter button half way until your ready to shoot.( which you should be doing by now btw) If you release the shutter the camera will stop tracking and start searching again (bad!)

This works for me!