Landing Lapwing

[Richard Unsworth]

I have really only just started BIF

Managed to get this capture today, showing Lapwing landing on rocky beach.
It was pretty windy and you can see his tail is skewed as he comes in cross wind gusts.
Pretty large crop

1/1250, ISO 800, Ev +.33, A1 SERVO, Handheld, 82 m FROM SUBJECT, fl 375 X 1.4

40D, 100-400 += 1.4 tc

[Julie Kenward]

Richard, you've got a nice in flight pose and a good HA; unfortunately, your crop has left quite a bit of noise throughtout the bird as well as some softness and loss of EQ. I'd back off the crop and see if you can get more of an environmental image with more of his surroundings included and see if that takes the lack of detail and noise more out of the picture.

Keep trying! You definitely managed to choose a good aperture and shutter speed so you're moving in the right direction!

[Sid Garige]

Richard,

I see from your setting you used 100-400mm +1.4x
Did you use Auto Focus or manual focus?

-Sid

[Dave Leroy]

A really nice pose with wings, tail and ha all working together. Dangling feet are a nice plus.

The large crop is hurting quality and backing off would be a good idea.

Looking forward to the next one.

Dave

[Richard Unsworth]

Sid

Using auto focus, taped pins so I can use Canon TC with the 100-400; it does hunt though so can be difficult.

and thanks everyone else too

was cropped to miss other BG birds so going to leave this one for now