Diving Juvenile Peregrine Falcon

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Diving Juvenile Peregrine Falcon

Gotta love these fast high MP cameras of today, including Sony A1...

As you may know, peregrine falcons are the fastest animal on the planet, and can reach speeds of ~380Km/hr when diving! So while it is always mesmerizing to watch them dive, it is a huge challenge keeping them in the frame particularly when they are closer...

So anyway, in this case, I noticed this juvenile was about to dive very far from me... So I tried to capture his dive. I had no hope whatsoever for any keepers, but thanks to all the megapixels, and to the Topaz Gigapixel AI, I still ended up with a frame that I liked!

It still obviously won't win any awards on the IQ but frankly getting a half-decent frame after such a huge crop would have been unthinkable just a few years ago...

Jul 02, 2023 at 06:45 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Diving Juvenile Peregrine Falcon

Very impressive. Not only speaking of today's technology that we have at our fingertips, but more so the skill to even get that bird in frame. A casual observer may look at this and be underwhelmed. That is until you try and keep up with one of these bullets in a dive.
Gary

Jul 03, 2023 at 08:12 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Diving Juvenile Peregrine Falcon

sum1sgrampa wrote:
Very impressive. Not only speaking of today's technology that we have at our fingertips, but more so the skill to even get that bird in frame. A casual observer may look at this and be underwhelmed. That is until you try and keep up with one of these bullets in a dive.
Gary

Thank you Gary. Indeed keeping these bullets in the frame is always a fun challenge. On this one I got lucky and I got a sequence of frames with the diving juvenile. I picked the one closer to the frame edge because of how I preferred the smoother green background. And I was happy to see that focus was still tracked all the way to the edge and that I could still recover this one.

Thanks again
Kambiz

Jul 03, 2023 at 10:18 AM


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