flight

[bill jolley]

one more with new lens

[seaslug]

Beaut composition Bill.. nice and sharp and well exposed. Well done!

[Isac]

Agree with Greg. Well done. All different positions of the wings. Just noticed a mark near top on LHS.

[loose cannon]

You would have to be pleased with these.

I notice on the second image f/10 has been used and a shutter speed of 1/500. You might want to consider a much larger aperture for almost all wildlife images, say f/5.6 (I'm not familiar with the lens your using)

This would allow for a much faster shutter speed, the faster the better with a long lens in most circumstances, especially if you are new to using a long lens. It takes a while to develop a really good technique and a lot of potentialy good images can be lost along the way by shooting too slow. Even for sedate birds like these I'd be trying for a speed of 1/800 to eliminate the risk of motion blur from the lens and to remove the risk of tiny movements by the bird introducing blur.

For birds in flight I rarely go below 1/1200 and often try for 1/2000 depending on the size and speed of the bird. These are just guides of course.

[Gaz]

Hi Bill, this looks impressive...same bird 'Pasted' 4 times or, right place right time?
So what new lens have ya got? Just curious...

Cheers.

[bill jolley]

that should read 70-300 macro

[Alan]

I'd agree with Mick about the choice of f stop. But I can only see one image taken at f/14?

I realise you weren't after birds in flight, but f/14 is still a bit small for general bird photography

Not familiar with a Sigma 70-70 Macro?

Great exposure/light and a variety of poses (just need to remove the dust bunny as Isac mentioned)

Cheers

[loose cannon]

Whoops!

My comments were for bill's other thread. Sorry for the confusion

[bill jolley]

Your input are always BENEFICAL no matter where they are

[P Plates]

That looks good and you would have to be pleased about the result with your new lens. Even the Ibis look beautiful in flight.