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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on May 14, 2018, 09:09:27 am

Title: Willets
Post by: sdwilsonsct on May 14, 2018, 09:09:27 am

This courting pair obliged by circling several times.

Title: Re: Willets
Post by: churly on May 16, 2018, 10:58:57 am

Nice go at a really tough shot. I think a lot of our friends at Lula underestimate the difficulty of getting a good shot of a fast bird in flight.  But alas it is not street.  ;)
Chuck

Title: Re: Willets
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 16, 2018, 11:36:07 am

This is more appealing to me than much "street."
Very nice capture.

Title: Re: Willets
Post by: sdwilsonsct on May 16, 2018, 10:42:22 pm

Thanks, Chuck and Eric. Not so difficult to sit in the breeze on a sunny roadside  and wait for the birds to circle around again and again.

Title: Re: Willets
Post by: Chris Calohan on May 21, 2018, 09:01:50 am

Good shot. It is not just difficult, even though they are so nicely circling, it is much like shooting propeller driven aircraft where the object is to get a perfectly articulated body with total prop blur. Unfortunately, wing blur doesn't always translate the same. Low and fast to the ground, this is a great shot, street or otherwise...and I am not sure the moderators shouldn't just make a whole section dedicated strictly to "Street," a section called "Nature," and lastly one called "Landscape."

Silly me, I should have looked first...two out of three isn't bad at all but there still needs to be a section for "nature" only.

Title: Re: Willets
Post by: Martin Kristiansen on May 23, 2018, 07:18:18 am

That’s very impressive.

Title: Re: Willets
Post by: sdwilsonsct on May 25, 2018, 07:44:55 pm

Chris, Martin: thanks!

I like this because, for once, the birds are headed towards me instead of away.

Title: Re: Willets
Post by: NancyP on May 25, 2018, 08:56:07 pm

Great shot! I for one do not underestimate the difficulty of getting such a shot.