Spent three hours at a local wetland area with a bird group today. Here's the best of the Kites in flight. I know it's not the ideal light as the sun was not behind me. Cheers.
7Dii, 100-400 at 400mm, 1/3200th sec, f5.6, iso640 in manual mode hand-held. Minor crop only.
Not bad. Looks sharp enough on the eyes and you did a pretty good job evening out the light. The bird itself is quite ratty.
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Hi Will. Thanks for the feedback. I've been working hard to get the exposure right on these birds, as I've been underexposing quite a bit. I needed around +3EV in order to work out the settings here to get the high shutter speed. Shooting into the sun didn't help. I did have to lift the shadows, but only a little in this case. In my previous efforts with these Kites too much noise resulted from lifting underexposed images. Cheers.
Great eye contact saves what is otherwise a very tough shooting angle. Yeah this bird is pretty beat up, particularly the tail. He looks like he's molting his primaries.
Whistling Kite overhead
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