just an information: which distance could you get to your subjects here? because where I live I struggle to get closer than 15m to them, at least from where they pass closer than 30m or near water.
fadeslayer wrote:
just an information: which distance could you get to your subjects here? because where I live I struggle to get closer than 15m to them, at least from where they pass closer than 30m or near water.
Sometimes they pass just below me (I'm shooting from a floating bridge) so about 3m. But most of the shots are out at 15-30m so lots of cropping is usually involved. Of course when they do fly really close their speed through the FOV is so quick that it gets more and more difficult to pan along with them. Better shots if you manage a few at close range but so many misses. I have found shooting a longer focal length like 840mm and shooting them a bit further away works better usually.
or near water.
