While photographing the recent Great Crested Flycatcher nest I was really wanting to get an image of one of the adults flying out of the nest. It was rather difficult for a number of reasons: never coming out the same direction (I'd compose with room to the right, and out to the left the bird would go...and vice versa!), never knowing how long the adult would be in the nest (sometimes a few seconds, sometimes a minute or more), early morning light not giving enough shutter speed to freeze the fast motion (usually had to leave for work before good SS could be attained) to name a few.
On this particular image all came together, my timing was perfect too, and I got what I had been wanting for a few days
Canon 7D + 100-400L @275mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/8, ISO 400 (settings histogram checked), handheld, natural light, about 80% FF.








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