Flight of Heron

[mikedelaney]

f 10
1/400
ISO 100
sunny day
strong head wind

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Mike, Welcome. I moved this post to Eager to Learn so that it and you could get lots of help. I will start with a few suggestions:

#1: Use a higher ISO--400 is great with most digital cameras. This will give you a higher shutter speed and perhaps more d-o-f that will give you sharper images.

#2: Use AI Servo or C AF with the central sensor and strive to place that sensor on the bird's face, head, or neck.

#3: Try to make flight images when the bird is flying both towards you and towards the sun. This is most easily done when the sun and the wind are from the same direction.

#4: Check out these educational threads: http://birdphotographers.net/forums/...ad.php?t=10088 and http://www.birdsasart.com/bn260.htm

Then get out there and make some more images. Lastly, if you let us know the camera and lens you are using we are in a better position to help.

[George DeCamp]

Hey Mike!

Artie gave you some excellent suggestions and I can only agree and perhaps add one or two.

Wait a little longer next time so the bird is larger in the frame, looks like he was coming your way. ISO 100 is really way too low for flight shots, you need a faster shutter speed and that comes at 200 and up to like what Artie says above. Keep your subject in a position in the frame so that it looks like it is flying into the frame, that is to say leave less room on the left and more on the right in the case you posted. Your subject is flying out of the frame...hope you get what I am saying here.

You are on the right track, stick with us and lets se how things shake out in the weeks ahead...keep em coming and welcome to the forum! :)

[Arthur Morris]

Excellent suggestions George. Thanks for helping out.

[mikedelaney]

thanks for the tips, and i will definitely find the money for the ''art of bird photog''

[mikedelaney]

thank you also. i always thought i should use the lowest ISO speed that i could. using higher ISO's sound great to me.

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Great tips from the pros, and welcome to the BPN family.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Mike the only other suggestion I can add is to keep trying and posting !!! Best learning tool !!!