p.197 #1 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
Adult peregrine falcons can take off by using their well-developed leg muscles to get airborne from standstill. This female juvenile needed a fairly long runway to get the momentum and at the end, she had to use the cliff edge as a “spring board” to get airborne but after that, it was all fine.
These are two images of her maiden flight. The first image shows also her brother that had to “duck” to avoid of getting clipped by her wing. I posted the complete sequence in the FM Nature and Wildlife board here: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1681861. Please feel free to check it out at your convenience. Thank you!
p.197 #2 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
AGeoJO wrote:
Adult peregrine falcons can take off by using their well-developed leg muscles to get airborne from standstill. This female juvenile needed a fairly long runway to get the momentum and at the end, she had to use the cliff edge as a “spring board” to get airborne but after that, it was all fine.
These are two images of her maiden flight. The first image shows also her brother that had to “duck” to avoid of getting clipped by her wing. I posted the complete sequence in the FM Nature and Wildlife board here: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1681861. Please feel free to check it out at your convenience. Thank you!
p.197 #11 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
Birds from the Mendocino Coast. Bird photography is tough! I don't know how you guys do it. I had so many throw aways, but it was really fun trying to capture the various birds in the area we stayed. All handheld and many heavily cropped.
Also, I just realized all these had a -0.3 EV. That wasn't intentional.
p.197 #15 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 3:23 PM.
Looking at a Great Egret in breeding plumage.
Cropped, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 426mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 200, f6.3, 1/2000 second.
Exposure Corrected -0.29 Stops.
January 6, 2020
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Were these down at Aransas NWR? I made a trip just after Christmas but couldn't locate them in the NWR, it wasn't until I was driving out, a pair flew across at the entrance towards the shoreline
p.197 #17 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
webmstrk9 wrote:
Were these down at Aransas NWR? I made a trip just after Christmas but couldn't locate them in the NWR, it wasn't until I was driving out, a pair flew across at the entrance towards the shoreline
They weren't on the publicly accessible part of the refuge. I used a boat charter service leaving out of Lamar that goes along the Intercoastal waterway. I've had luck at the Heron Flats on the refuge before but not always.
p.197 #18 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
6683 wrote:
@fadeslayer@@ love these shots
Did you pan the camera to render the backgrounds moving?
mmm if you refere to the second series, there is no panning, the slight movement caught on the reed leaves are due to the wind and the movement inferred by birds' nervous moves... they keep on pruning and changing position, it's a very difficult task to keep them in frame (indeed it's a titanic job to get them in focus in primis, because at such distances DOF is very small, there are many obstacles from you and the subjects, which by their own never stay quiet and in the same perch... add low light so not too fast shooting speed--- there are tons of misfocused/not focused at all pictures).
