Barn Swallow Hanging

[Desmond Chan]

D300 300f2.8 hand-held; manual exposure mode, no flash; ISO 1250 f8 1/1000 s.

Cropped! Removed two partial birds nearby.

C&C welcome and appreciated !

Thank you !!!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Desmond - love the pose and the high key and a good HA - very impressive for such a small fast bird. Sweet lens that 300 2.8 as well. Nicely done.

How large of a crop?
Think I might crop some from the bottom.

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Desmond,
I like the capture. You have sharp details, good color rendition, and I like the spread open wings...would just crop 1/4 from the bottom...good show...:cool:

[denise ippolito]

Desmond, Nice capture and I like the pose and HA. I see a bit of noise in the wing areas and agree w/ a slight crop off bottom. Well done!

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Desmond Sweet capture About all we could wish for is having the bird (original) larger in frame for less cropping !! You got one difficult bird !!!

[Kent Wilson]

So, Desmond, you can capture small birds in flight! So you are my hero!

Congratulations. This is the sort of image I have been trying to make, with much less success.

[Harold Davis]

love being able to see the swallowed tail here. nice capture, desmond. agree with the others that bigger in the original would have rendered some nicer detail, but still nice nonetheless!

[Kerry Perkins]

Excellent capture Desmond. I have hundreds of flight shots of swallows and still haven't gotten one even close to this nice. Well done!

[Desmond Chan]

Thanks for the comments folks ! I personally like the pose and in particular the tail in this image.

Lance, it's a large crop. And, yep, I'll go out again and try, and try, and try....