Willet in Flight - Bird in flight - Willett

Please comment on my bird in flight photo. No cropping was done.

Canon 5D and Canon 100-400L. Sharpened and saturation raised in PS

CS3. If the critter wasn't going so fast I might have had the ability

to move him to the left of frame-center.

Great shot! beautiful clarity and wonderful background. 6/5 anonymous

These guys aren't the easiest to capture. This is really sharp and well exposed on the bird. You are so right, they are quick.

Great sharp shot and an interesting background for this fast fliers!!!

Incredible capture of moment and detail. Excellent that you got the curl of the wave as your BG. Best Regards

Hi,

How did you take this shot? I know its probably a while since you did this but did you hand hold the lens or did you put it on a tripod?

Regards

Manish

Manish, the bird flew right past, within 25 feet or so. No tripod. With such a rapidly moving subject, was surprised that focus was spot on. From my experience, in many other similar situations, it would not have been.

In addition Manish, the extremely bright conditions at the beach must have made the aperture very small, deep DOF.