Kingfisher Flight Shot

[accwai]

....I read once from a famous nature photographer ,if you want to learn how to take birds in flight go to any lakeshore in any city and practice on Seagulls,

Yup.  Like this:



and this:

[...] personally I like to set up in Shutter Priority mode that way I know what type of action I will capture based on the shutter speed and I let the camera worry about the lighting, ISO to me is not a worry in good light I would worry more about the shutter speed. [...]

Actually depth of field is a rather fundamental control.  It's probably better to have shutter speed fluctuates a little than have aperture changing on you.

Andy

[Niloc]

Nice Gull pics love the detail and clearity!

[Misty01]

thanks for the advice guys looks like I will be shooting gulls for a bit  :lol:

[mr.sharp-photo]

[...] personally I like to set up in Shutter Priority mode that way I know what type of action I will capture based on the shutter speed and I let the camera worry about the lighting, ISO to me is not a worry in good light I would worry more about the shutter speed. [...]

Actually depth of field is a rather fundamental control.  It's probably better to have shutter speed fluctuates a little than have aperture changing on you.

Andy

if your background is the sky, depth of field isn't much of an issue.

and if i had time to play with my settings, i would just shoot manual and adjust everything accordingly (and hope for the best). when you do shutter priority, i find that the camera compensates too much for the sky.

[Niloc]

Depends on the camera, I find the Olympus software works great but the more important aspect is what are you trying to acheive as the photographer, if for example you are trying to freeze the wings of a small bird in flight I don't see how you would not use Shutter Priority so that you can control the shutter speed and not get blurred wings, now if you wanted the blurred wings in the picture then you may as well shoot in any other mode...the camera's software does not know what effect you are trying to accomplish so thats why there are the many options od Shutter Speed...again I stress each Camera manufacture are different as well as lenses are different there are different rules for a 2.8 300mm and a 4.0 70-300mm lens...