good practice

[Promapper]

Let's face it, tracking a bird in flight with a long lens is tough. FINDING it in that long lens is even tougher.

Whenever there is a large gathering of seagull close by I'll take the 70-200 and the 2-500 out and practice tracking and shooting and in general try to hone my settings and muscle memory. Number one looks over sharpened with noise, two is much better but could use a bit more detail in the black portion of the wing, 3 is very noisy.
feel free to comment even though not in the critique threads.
Hard bank

NIKON D500 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8 200mm f/5.6 1/2500s ISO 1000


not the whole bird but I liked the shot.

NIKON D500 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8 155mm f/5.6 1/2500s ISO 1000


Yup, I am still here!

NIKON D500 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8 200mm f/5.6 1/2500s ISO 1000





Greg

 

[Callie]

You said :
Let's face it, tracking a bird in flight with a long lens is tough. FINDING it in that long lens is even tougher.
That is so true!

 

[Deleted member 115]

I like to practice on Gulls sometimes also, it is fun. And in the summer here, the Nighthawks and Swallows are fun also but I have much higher keeper rates with the 70-200 or 70-300mm than the 200-500mm. I agree it does help

 

[Yezdi]

Awesome shots. Loved the first one. Totally agree with Callie..