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    I'm new to the forum (see my introduction post) and only recently attempted capturing birds-in-flight. It's an extra special challenge with the manual focus lenses I like to use. I'm usually more at ease sneaking up on immobile objects like flowers, sunsets and my sleeping bulldog. :)

    This one shot yesterday at the local pond. Missed focus on the eye a smidge -- oh, well. Appreciate any C&C.

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    Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 80-200mm f/4 + Zeiss Mutar 2x teleconverter
    400mm @ f/5.6 1/1000 ISO 500
    Handheld on a clear bright day at 3:30pm
    A little pp in LR 5 for highlights/shadows and light crop for compo

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    you had some nice light, I like the wing positions too but this one has a couple of major issues : poor image quality (oversharepened, lacks of feather detail and lots of noise/artifacts as a result of too much sharpening plus blown highlights) The bird had passed you a bit, a few moments earlier would have been ideal.

    It will be a disappointing experience trying to shoot flight with a manual focus lens... your files will come out soft and IQ will be quite poor.


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    Thanks for the input. I do see what you mean, good points. A little better handling of pp could "save" some of it, the rest is in execution.

    I re-posted the image on Flickr, but then blew up the link above. So not able to edit that now. Sorry.

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