Wow, these are great and I don't know how you even were prepared for this. Great situational awareness!
While it was totally worth paging past a page of spam posts to find this awesome sequence, I wonder if Fred is going to have to update the way we log in? 2FA would be a pain for every login, but might be a good idea for at least the initial account setup. I don't remember if we already do that...
Thank you for the kind remarks. It was a great opportunity to capture the action in late afternoon light. Lots of time shooting fast moving birds and many missed sequences eventually resulted in the series.
Like so many others, I find the more I practice the luckier I get
Gorgeous sequence! And you had the light in your favor. 20fps? 40fps? I have a new Z8 (just testing it now, while I wait for a 180-600mm) and am excited about 20fpps.
I aspire to try my hand at photos like this once I get my 600mm zoom, but I have much to learn. Back in the day I did pro sports photography (NFL, baseball, NBA, Olympics) using long glass (I loved my 600 f/4 Nikkor) doing MANUAL focus. We only dreamed about these kinds of sharp-photo percentages...we were happy to get 25% sharp, ecstatic with 50%. Very hard, and I DON'T miss it! I wish we had this AF tech 30 years ago. I used to joke that you could have your shot: 1) sharp, 2) well-framed, 3) perfectly timed. Pick any TWO. 5fps was the norm, and so many times you'd know that the perfect frame occurred in-between the ones you got. 20fps...a fantasy then mostly, except using a Hulcher camera (which I never did). Cheers.
jpatrickdowns wrote:
Gorgeous sequence! And you had the light in your favor. 20fps? 40fps? I have a new Z8 (just testing it now, while I wait for a 180-600mm) and am excited about 20fpps.
Thanks for the kind words. The sequence was captured at 30 FPS. It sometimes surprises me how much happens between frames.
