Backlit quelea flock

[Vincent Grafhorst]

I hope I am not boring you with images from my red-billed quelea series. They are all very different, but they have one thing in common... MANY birds. Here I tried to blur the movement of a flock of backlit quelea to give a sense of motion, but not too much as to still identify individual birds more or less.

Camera Model Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/15
Av( Aperture Value ) 9.0
Metering Mode Center-Weighted Average Metering
Exposure Compensation -1
ISO Speed 50 (Unbelievable how clean that is, when you often shoot at higher ISO!)
Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length 500.0 mm

Vincent Grafhorst
www.kwaiphotogarphy.com (http://www.kwaiphotogarphy.com)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pattern and light in this one but find the OOF grass at the bottom a bit prominent.

[Samuel Mulder]

I agree that tilting the camera up slightly (or a more pano crop) would help the image. The grass competes too much with the birds.

Very cool image though, the top 3/4 of it is beautiful.

Samuel