Kite Fight

[John Harper]

Hi There

Shot from HCT of a pair of Black Kites having a "discussion" over who should be in possesion of the piece of food that has just been catapulted into the air for them to catch on the wing. I never tire of seeing their aerial antics as the try to be the one that gets the food.

Again shot with the 300 F2.8 which I have to admit the more I used the more I fell in love with it.

John

EOS 1DMKIII
EF 300 F2.8L IS
ISO 400
1/1600 @ F4

[Alfred Forns]

HI John you are killing me with these images !!!

I guess you cropped from horizontal? Great position for both birds maybe having the lower birds face visible would have been great Lower bird could have used better light but a fine image as presented If you can please list the exp comp?

[John Harper]

Hi Alfred

Glad you like the shots HCT just offers such opportunities, if only it were in Florida, we'd get the weather as well.

As for exposure comp I tend to shoot all my shots on manual, I generally meter off a white cloud or overcast (as we have a lot of those in the UK :p) and then open up by +1 2/3rds of a stop.

John

[Maxis Gamez]

This is lovely. Excellent pose and behavior.

Keep them coming!

[Lana Hays]

John
Cool......I think this one may be the first with an interaction between 2 birds mid air. Wonderful action.

[James Salywoda]

Sweet bit of action captured John I really wish you had some sort of eye contact from the lower bird but still a very impressive bit of action captured.

[Tim Cee]

Excellent job with great action. Well done, a beautiful capture.