Birds in flight

[bert haddock]

Hi Folks,
Not being able to get out much, time to organise my images in different categories, sport, wildlife, landscape etc.
One of our friends lives at Morpeth in Northumberland and the local farmer who is also a keen photographer allows us to go onto his land and farm buildings, he has a large variety of wildlife on his farm, birds including Barnowls kingfishers etc and has hides set up to take photo's from,
Attached 3 images, I have a selection of lenses of my own and can also borrow lenses off my friends, the Barnowl was taken with a 500m lens apperture 6.3, shutter 1250,exposure comp -2/3. Aperture priority , centre weighted metering.
Regards,
Bert

BARN OWL IN FLIGHT,adaps.JPG (43.98 KiB) Viewed 4408 times

GREENFINCH ATACKING GOLDFINCH.JPG (47.42 KiB) Viewed 4408 times

chaffinch in flight- adaps copy.JPG (54.8 KiB) Viewed 4408 times

[John]

Superb Bert, really great images.

[PhilipHowe]

Always nice to see photos from you Bert, they are great, as always.

[Tracey McGovern]

Fantastic images Bert, wished I could take picture like these, my bird shots never turn out like this

Tracey

[Paul Jones]

IN THE 'RED KITE' THREAD:
... going in the top hide you are shooting down on the birds as they come to feed which enables you to get the Kite's against the grass bank which is much better than against the sky as regards metering etc...

Hi Bert

These are very good bird shots, as always.

I've lifted your quote from the 'Red Kite' thread. I think it makes such a difference shooting the birds against a green grass backdrop as opposed to a blue sky. It's far more effective (in my opinion).