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[Axel Hildebrandt]

This is one from this evening. These Barn Swallows are pretty tough to photograph, I wish their flight patterns were less erratic. :) The bird was flying low above a pond.



1D4, 500f4, 1.4x, 1/1600s, f/8, ISO 400, manual exposure

[Bryan Erb]

I like the wing position, and background. Good job capturing this speedster ! !

[Bryan Hix]

The fact that you got a sharp one with the big lens is impressive in itself. I tried the same thing yesterday for an hour and gave up. Congrats. :)

[Tobias Hayashi]

You can say that again! They are very hard birds to capture in-flight. Excellently done here, nice simple pose and background.

[Rich Steel]

Hi Axel

These are a tough subject to photograh and I am impressed you managed to lock on with the 1.4TC attached which tends to slow down AF. I have only attempted these on a couple of occasions on a really windy day when they have been slowed down by a head wind but it was still very difficult even then. Even more impresssive is that you caught the bird with a good wing position.

Cheers

Rich

[Stu Bowie]

Axel, an excellent capture here, as these guys are extemely fast. I like the flying posture, and the colours on the swallow look good. Overall nice sharp, and stands out nicely against the water BG.

[Dave Barnes]

Super capture. These guys are too fast for me. The head detail is great.

[arash_hazeghi]

tough shot to get with the TC, did very well and excellent wing position on top of that. looks very good overall, I saw some color noise/grain in the dark areas, cleaned it up

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks for the repost, looks good. I didn't run any NR and lightened the wing a bit.