3 of a kind

[Roman Kurywczak]

Been having some fun with DG flight the last couple of days. Working on the theme of legs out but also trying to get the wings sharper. Have been improving the keeper rate every attempt. Taken at a local park laying down on the ground with the Mark 3 and the 100-400mm lens @285mm and a 20mm extension tube mounted on a studioball head and home made ground pod at ISO 1600 at f8 and 1/4000 sec. Noise Ninja applied in PP. Cropped a bit from top.....& some off the bottom.
Next step.........ISO 3200.........or even 6400. I feel the need for speed!
As always comments welcomed and appreciated.
PS Manual Flash at 1/4 power

[Tim Vidrine]

Roman, I'm not really experienced enough to critique the image, but I do understand the degree of difficulty to get this image. Great job on getting the common whitetail in flight in the same frame with the blue dasher and some damsel.

[Mike Moats]

Hey Roman, your doing a good job with these tough to shoot D-flys

[John Cooper]

You're running hot now Roman!!
Even managed a resting damselfly under the perch as a bonus this time :)

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Lovely well-freezed action there. Pardon my ignorance but out of academic interest, I wish to know if flash would be of any use when shooting at 1/4000 shutter speed (as in this case) while the sync speed would typically be much lower...?

[Robert O'Toole]

Cool whitetail pose in flight. Nice and sharp.

Not really a big fan of broken off stick perches but i like the 3 for 1 idea :)

Robert

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Robert,
I had nothing to do with the perch. Natural. There's a ton of them along the pond edge. But you have given me an idea................

[Robert O'Toole]

Yeah I know what you mean Roman, the second hardest thing in FL is finding a nice perch, the hardest thing is getting them to land on a nice one, they seem to prefer old broken off dried up sticks!
You can always carry a few good perchs sround and wait for the right moment like people do with BOAS.

Robert

[Stephen Stephen]

Roman you're setting the bar pretty high for we DF in-flight newbies. The 3 for 1 is great but the perch (other comments noted) doesn't do much more me.