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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on July 30, 2011, 06:05:19 PM

Title: Chimney swifts (sharper photos)
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on July 30, 2011, 06:05:19 PM
Alright...
Meghan challenged me (without her knowing). I had 30 min before we went to dinner to take pics, process them and post them.
i am 3 minutes over my limit (wife is going to kill me).

I saw the swifts at 4:30 PM. Three to 5 of them circling. Got the camera, took 7 pictures. 2 of them turned out. I wanted to take more but the swifts disappeared.

More to possibly come this weekend, light permitting (my camera settings are nuts! ISO over 3000, shutter speed at 1/2500, f8 at 11)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/5992025338_bd62f3ac83_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/5992025338/)
chimney swifts (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/5992025338/) by mr.sharp-photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrsharp-photo/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6017/5991468157_b784577d0f_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/5991468157/)
chimney swifts (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/5991468157/) by mr.sharp-photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrsharp-photo/), on Flickr
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Post by: BoboBird on July 30, 2011, 08:47:55 PM
Yes much sharper then the last set.

More target practise should do it - provided wife has'nt killed you already :)
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Post by: JW Mills on July 30, 2011, 11:38:23 PM
Nice ones Richard, these guys are tough!
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Post by: MEGHAN on August 01, 2011, 06:18:06 PM
See, my tips do pay off every once in a while.  :wink:
These birds are tougher than tough to shoot, so I commend you to even get them in the frame.
I know I couldn't.

Great job on these, by the way you're going the next ones should be perfect right?  :D

Meghan