That's Close!

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks

Caught this male House Finch flying close to the Cholla cactus in our garden this morning, beautiful sunny morning except for fierce wind trying to blow him off course.

CC's warmly invited

Uncle Gus

Olympus E-620, Zuiko 70-300 @ 430mm
Aperture Priority: F/5.6, 1/1250s, 200 ISO, 0.70eV, Auto WB

[Harold Davis]

hey UG. when they are that close and that fast you need some super fast shutter speed!!! would have loved to see this guy coming towards you instead of going away. nice job with the exposure!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Gus - slightly soft from lack of shutter speed - the closer you are to the action the higher the shutter spped required to freeze it.
Like the catchlight in the eye.
TFS

[Gus Hallgren]

Does this look better at default Hi Pass?

Uncle Gus

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Gus

The only secret to capturing birds in flight is wind direction, need to have birds flying into it !!! Makes things easy !!!