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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Tony Jay on November 30, 2013, 01:03:06 am

Title: Little Bee-eater
Post by: Tony Jay on November 30, 2013, 01:03:06 am

1/2000 sec at f5.6 ISO 1250
500mm with 1.4 telextender

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: ErikKaffehr on November 30, 2013, 01:58:05 am

Nice!

Best regards
Erik

Quote from: Tony Jay on November 30, 2013, 01:03:06 am

1/2000 sec at f5.6 ISO 1250
500mm with 1.4 telextender

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: thierrylegros396 on November 30, 2013, 04:22:52 am

Very Nice and good crop and background.

Thierry

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on November 30, 2013, 08:31:03 am

Perfect shot.
Just like the other 2 you posted to day.
\Me likes.

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 30, 2013, 09:24:08 am

I think this one is the best of the three. Nice!

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: bdosserman on November 30, 2013, 09:45:08 am

Beautiful! I've been taking a lot of bird pics in the last year, but yet to get one with prey like that (other than a berry, which doesn't exactly count!).

Brian

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: William Walker on November 30, 2013, 12:51:04 pm

Hi Tony

I am pleased to see you travelled safely! I trust you had a good time?

Nice one, they are swines to get to sit still!

Regards
William

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: Tony Jay on November 30, 2013, 05:37:11 pm

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

William is correct - these birds don't stay still for long.
This was a somewhat serendipitous capture since I was shooting this bird sitting on the branch shown in the capture when it suddenly disappeared. I was cursing another missed opportunity when it suddenly reappeared after just a couple of seconds with a large wasp in its bill. I got several images of the Bee-eater subduing this wasp.

Thanks for the concern William - I did indeed travel safely but not all of my equipment did - had my 5D mark III, along with a Sigma 35mm f1.4 lens attached, stolen out of my vehicle in Windhoek. As a result I ended up shooting with my backup, the 5D mark II, for most of my trip. It was a bit of a challenge to go back to the 5D mark II after experiencing the supremacy of the 5D mark III's autofocus.
This image was shot with the 5D mark II.

Tony Jay

Title: Re: Little Bee-eater
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on December 02, 2013, 04:18:02 am

What a nice portrait.