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DGettisNC · Oct 24, 2022

They didnt give me any great opportunities this weekend, but here are some Red Headed Woodpeckers in flight from yesterday - the 1st weekend I have had the Nikon 800mm PF lens (shot with the Z9)
Not sure why the EXIF isnt showing, but all these are either 1/2500sec or 1/3200sec - iso between 500-800 and all shot at f6.3 wide open. And even with the 800mm...these are still considerable crops.

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Cas1234 · Oct 25, 2022

DGettisNC said:
They didnt give me any great opportunities this weekend, but here are some Red Headed Woodpeckers in flight from yesterday - the 1st weekend I have had the Nikon 800mm PF lens (shot with the Z9)
Not sure why the EXIF isnt showing, but all these are either 1/2500sec or 1/3200sec - iso between 500-800 and all shot at f6.3 wide open. And even with the 800mm...these are still considerable crops.

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WOW!! Beautiful, nicely done.

Rick S · Oct 25, 2022

The first two pics from ~3 hours at the Conowingo dam this afternoon. Dank, dark day. At least I got some Fall colors in these.. Still extremely slooowww, esp for his time of the year..

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Rick S · Oct 25, 2022

The same Eagle as above away from the trees as it circled towards the trees behind me.

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Cas1234 · Oct 25, 2022

Beautiful, I have yet to capture a Bald Eagle, on my bucket list.

Rick S · Oct 25, 2022

Cas1234 said:
Beautiful, I have yet to capture a Bald Eagle, on my bucket list.

Thank you. I hope you get one soon. I'm as thrilled after 1000s as I was with the first.

Jmaes · Nov 7, 2022

Backlit black-winged kite.

Ralph · Nov 7, 2022

Rick S said:
The first two pics from ~3 hours at the Conowingo dam this afternoon. Dank, dark day. At least I got some Fall colors in these.. Still extremely slooowww, esp for his time of the year..View attachment 48344 View attachment 48345

Beautiful Rick! Love the background

Ralph · Nov 7, 2022

Rick S said:
The same Eagle as above away from the trees as it circled towards the trees behind me.
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Excellent!!

Rick S · Nov 7, 2022

Ralph said:
Beautiful Rick! Love the background

Thanks Ralph.

Rick S · Nov 7, 2022

Ralph said:
Excellent!!

Thanks again Ralph.

Platalea ajaja · Nov 7, 2022

Great soft backlighting on the kite, dang nice shot.

Platalea ajaja · Nov 7, 2022

Almost doesn't qualify for BIF, but he's getting close.......

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Otto · Jan 9, 2023

Pintails in flight. Now I really understand why they are called that. you can pin them to the sky.

I'm really jazzed about this experience. I went out for a sunset shoot, there was a lull in the rain and wind (Northern California), and so I figured let's go to may favorite place and see what we see.
The amount of water in the rice fields presented an opportunity with lots of potential. There were Northern Pintails on the shallow waters of the rice fields and I thought I hand out for a bit to get the reflection of the sky on the water.

Just as I was about to leave, various flocks of Pintails began arriving and putting on an areal display. I began following them and I really could hardly see them in the darker areas.

I tracked them as they darted up and down and circled. I was waiting for them to hit a bright spot in the sky and capture their silhouettes, but I got something even better.
In any case this image was captured at ISO 26000 with the Z9 and the Sony FE 200-600mm 6.3 with a 1.4 teleconverter via Megadap21.

As far as I'm concerned, NIKON can take their sweet time in putting out that lens. This will do for a while.

Noise is noise, and color is color. Also out of hundreds of images very few were out of focus (five to be exact), so I'm working with what I have.

Next I'll take my Canon lens (600m F4) and see how I fair. From past experience it should be even better. The difference being that I was able to hand hold the Sony lens. The Canon is all of 11lbs or more and I do need my monopod.

The joy of photography!