Mike Hitchen
06-15-2017, 06:30 AM
I spent a happy (if frustrating!) hour or so trying to capture swallows in flight. Out of the several hundred, barely half a dozen were close enough and sharp enough to warrant showing to anyone else. Still - it is what drives us on.
1Dx2 with 400DOii and 2x tc Mkiii. 1/4000, f8, ISO 6400 - with rapidly changing cloud cover I wish I had had chance to halve the shutter speed and the ISO, but needs must....
Processed in LR and cropped to about 70% of original. Unfortunately I could not find an easy way to expand the canvas to the left and maintain the DOF effect
1Dx2 with 400DOii and 2x tc Mkiii. 1/4000, f8, ISO 6400 - with rapidly changing cloud cover I wish I had had chance to halve the shutter speed and the ISO, but needs must....
Processed in LR and cropped to about 70% of original. Unfortunately I could not find an easy way to expand the canvas to the left and maintain the DOF effect