
Originally Posted by
Tin Man Lee
Thank you so much for your great info, Arash! You have some insanely cool action shots in addition to all the amazing in flight shots.
Yes they are so skittish. I am too impatient to wait but I agree waiting for them to come is the only way to go. And when they hover and hunt, they seem to ignore me and I can get a bit closer. But then, they hover all over the place and I had to run across multiple slopes to catch them, which was killing me...
Attached is the 100% crop without any sharpening. I was pleasantly surprised by the sharpness. It's just quite noisy on the background, I guess its due to ISO 1600 (or that I didn't expose all the way to the right?) but the bird looks fine. I wasn't comfortable to shoot at any shutter speed slower than 1/1600s for the kites with the 2x converter on...