House Finch in Flight

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

I've been hanging out around a particular group of feeders lately. I occasionally picked up a blurry flight shot by accident, and this weekend I decided to try for that on purpose:


http://www.cafeaulait.org/HouseFinch.jpg

This is natural light, no flash, Canon 7D + 400 f/4 DO on a tripod. f/8, ISO 800, 1/1600 s, -1 EV in AV mode. I've cropped and cloned out a couple of distracting elements.

From a nearly full 32GB card I got maybe 2-3 keepers. Focus was the biggest problem. You have to prefocus and hope the bird's in the right place when the shutter fires. I may try this again with a shorter lens to get more depth of field and a broader field of view, at the cost of losing some pixels on the bird.

[Peter Dexter]

Nice effort. Don't see many in flight images of these finches. A tough catch. Got the head and feet in focus which is fine with me, more life like.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice getting one in flight, the light was a bit harsh and I wish the right wing tip was not clipped. overall a bit tight in the frame and BG can use some NR. TFS