Birds in Flight -- Share your BIF Images

[DRwyoming]

One of the many White Faced Ibis's flying around Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Nikon D850, 500mm PF, f/5.6, 1/2000", ISO 320

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[NatHist.CA]

Osprey siblings - leap frog in flight (partial series)

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[Dave Douglass]

Here's a Red-tail shot I got that I liked. D500, Nikon 200-500 lens, hand held, 1/2000th, f 7.1, 500mm, ISO 280.

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[Deleted member 115]

Mallard coming in.
D850, 200-500mm, f/5.6, 1/4000, ISO 400, 500mm

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[Deleted member 115]

I have quite a few of these Eagle shots on blue sky backgrounds, kinda boring for an Eagle really...
D500, Tamron 150-600mm at 600mm F/6.3, 1/2500 sec, ISO 100

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[DRwyoming]

kinda boring for an Eagle really...

But still a great capture of a beautiful bird But yeah, I know what you mean and it sure is nice when you can line them up against some kind of background for context.

 

[Letolen]

Brahminy Kite. Australia

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[DRwyoming]

Brahminy Kite. Australia

Who's photo bombing who

 

[Letolen]

Who's photo bombing who

Neither. Kite was there for human.

 

[NatHist.CA]

Osprey

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[DRwyoming]

Osprey

Great series!

 

[DRwyoming]

I seem to be struggling with subject isolation in my BIF images... maybe I need to use a different focus area mode

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[Oztours]

Good one Dave

 

[BCcanuck]

Golden Eagle.

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[Fishboy1952]

Second attempt at birds in flight (I won’t show the first!). American Kestrel and these guys are fast!

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[Oosty]

Saddlebilled Stork Kruger National Park

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[DRwyoming]

Saddlebilled Stork Kruger National Park

Awesome shot, love the colors and great look of that face. Nicely done!

 

[Oosty]

Awesome shot, love the colors and great look of that face. Nicely done!

Thank you - just when I get a case of GAS the old Bigma (non OS) says "Nooo not yet" (Along with my wife )

 

[Callie]

Saddlebilled Stork Kruger National Park

Nice lady, Oosty, they are not often so accommodating!

 

[Callie]

I seem to be struggling with subject isolation in my BIF images... maybe I need to use a different focus area mode

Dave - nice image - Snow geese? I find it very difficult to impossible to shoot this type of image. What do you shoot? F/11, F/5.6? I have tried various settings, but one or two birds are in focus, the rest OOF. High or low SS?
These are Red-billed Quelea, Quelea quelea ~ sometimes, there can be 1000's in a swarm. This from Kruger - never sure if it works or not - D500; 600 F/4; F/10; 1/2500; ISO 1600

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[DRwyoming]

Dave - nice image - Snow geese? I find it very difficult to impossible to shoot this type of image. What do you shoot? F/11, F/5.6? I have tried various settings, but one or two birds are in focus, the rest OOF. High or low SS?

Thanks Callie. Yeah, I think of these images as telling a different kind of story that's more about the sheer number of birds rather than just one or a few. But yes, it would be good to capture more of them sharp and identifiable.

Yup, they're Snow Geese and it was shot with 550mm of lens (200-400 + TC1.4) at f/8, 1/250", ISO 100 with my D2X. Today I'd bump up the shutter speed and stop the lens down and accept the higher ISO but the D2X didn't handle high ISO all that well so I often shot slower shutter speeds or sacrificed DoF when shooting that camera.

 

[Cristobal]

Snow geese along St-Lawrence River last spring
I was waiting near the river, looking at the birds, feeding on the shore at low tide when a small plane arrived in the sky, making all the birds fly away suddenly; not easy to obtain a good result; I took many photos and I kept this one, showing some sharp birds (non cropped photo).

D500 + 500 PF @ 1/2500, f/8, ISO 320

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[Laurence Jackson]

This is a crop of an osprey shot I put up last week, here in Western Australia, but I think it works. The osprey was about 30m away. Nikon D850/600FL @ f4, ISO100, 1/3200th

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[ruley74]

This is a crop of an osprey shot I put up last week, here in Western Australia, but I think it works. The osprey was about 30m away. Nikon D850/600FL @ f4, ISO100, 1/3200th

Yep, that works very nicely, great shot!