Head On Tree Swallow Flight with Mark IV

[Jim Neiger]

Osceola County, FL - 1D4, 500mm+1.4xTC, hand held from boat, 1/2500, F5.6, ISO 800, manual exposure

[Malcolm Benn]

A Tree Swallow 700mm handheld from a boat .. wow. Jim was this a big crop?

[Jim Neiger]

Horizontaly it's about a 50% crop. If it was much bigger in the frame than this, it would be inside the minimum focus distance. Using the 1.4xTC helped me increase the size in the frame.

[Leo Berzins]

Wow Jim! Is there anything that flies that you can't capture?
The side lighting works well and I love the blue sheen on the head.