Seagull in flight

Just wondered how this looked like?

Beautiful and sharp image...against a clear blue sky...good capture...what lens did you use?

agree with the above comment. This is such a wonderful view of this bird. great shot

Atanu and Julie. Thank you for your comments. I took the picture this afternoon on a visit to Tenby in West Wales (UK). Tamron 70-300mm lens set at 135mm at 1/640 sec, F11. The gull was very close indeed. Must be used to people on the beach.

Great shot - I am still striving to get shots with this much detail and exposure. I'm getting the bird relatively sharp now but don't have the proper exposure yet. Did you used exposure compensation and what kind of focussing mode were you in? Any kind of servo mode and/or how many focussing points did you have active? Thanks.

I used the AF-C mode for this fast moving bird and also panned the camera with the bird in flight. I have surprised myself as I got 3-4 shots right. As for exposure compensation I had -1.3 ev compensation on camera (accidentally!).

Taha, it seems things were going your way for sure even when the accidental exposure compensation as some of the highlights may have been blown out had it not been for it.

 

So the AF-C mode I take it might be like my AF-Servo mode then, it continually tracks the moving subject? What about focussing points, did you just select one of you points to be active or did you leave them all active? Sorry about all the questions. Thanks.

Yes the AF-C is the continous focus tracking mode. As for focus point I had selected the off-centre focus point which fell generally on the head part (hoping it could get the eyes focussed).

Thanks Taha, that is some of the things I have been trying - I know I will do more bird-in-flight shots this summer when there's great light. I haven't really tried the continuous tracking (servo) mode much yet on my camera but will need to explore it more now.

A REALLY DIFFICULT shot executed very well indeed. 10/10 in my book for this.

 

Ger..

Many thanks for your kind comments.