Comb-crested Jacana

[wigz]

A bit far away as usual, so fairly heavy crops. I tried to get some action shots but none had wing angle or bird angle quite right.

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[avkomp]

nice series, I think the last is the best of these with best eye contact.
sometimes to get the wing angle and eye contact etc, you just gotta throw frame rate at it. I call it spray and pray.
good work

[wigz]

Thanks. It was just doing the wing thing in occasional short jumps and I was just too slow in reacting. Frame rate is something I just don't have much of. I found with the Cattle Egret that I was getting most in a wing down position - the frame rate seemed to sync nicely with the bird's wing rate.

[David_MC]

Beautiful bird and great shots. Really like that last one as well.

[wigz]

Thanks David

[Isac]

Great looking bird Alan. Te colourful surroundings a bit distracting but it is what it is with bird shots. The size of their feet is amazing. I'm surprised that your FF camera doesn't have a faster burst rate.

[wigz]

Thanks Isac. It's a bit slow but it takes time to move all those pixels.

[Isac]

Ah well maybe Hue/Sat with a mask to drop the intensity? 2 minutes tops