Here are a couple of love birds ,actually Lapwings in a courtship ritual taken inbetween Buxton and Leek .Having spotted them ,my next problem was cathing them on my camera and they dart and dash everywhere at really high speeds.Right the light was in my favour plenty of sunlight against clear skies so a fast shutter should be ok 1/1600 sec i chose with an aperture of f5.6 at 400mil with 320 ISO hand held at a tripod at these speeds would have been imposible as the dont fly were you want them to go and they can tuen in an instant,so panning was my only option so moving with the birds in my viewfinder and setting the camera to 7 shots per sec i started and not quite as sharp as i would have liked but not ruined by being to blurred ,my only concern was i had no background in the frame to compare the speed of the birds as there was nothing to blur out which then you would of seen the movement more,insted they look as though they have been stuck their.
Once the had settled down and landed i could see that the female shown here was being entertained by the male below and its obvious intentions ,
The male here was parading round after the Female above with out a care in the world and i was not on his list of priorities and so therefore i could get closer and take the shots as they strutted their stuff.The colours are striking as the sunlight hits there plumage.
The last shot was taken just before the deed was done and then he flew away.
Here are a couple of love birds ,actually Lapwings in a courtship ritual taken inbetween Buxton and Leek .Having spotted them ,my next problem was cathing them on my camera and they dart and dash everywhere at really high speeds.Right the light was in my favour plenty of sunlight against clear skies so a fast shutter should be ok 1/1600 sec i chose with an aperture of f5.6 at 400mil with 320 ISO hand held at a tripod at these speeds would have been imposible as the dont fly were you want them to go and they can tuen in an instant,so panning was my only option so moving with the birds in my viewfinder and setting the camera to 7 shots per sec i started and not quite as sharp as i would have liked but not ruined by being to blurred ,my only concern was i had no background in the frame to compare the speed of the birds as there was nothing to blur out which then you would of seen the movement more,insted they look as though they have been stuck their.
Once the had settled down and landed i could see that the female shown here was being entertained by the male below and its obvious intentions ,
The male here was parading round after the Female above with out a care in the world and i was not on his list of priorities and so therefore i could get closer and take the shots as they strutted their stuff.The colours are striking as the sunlight hits there plumage.
The last shot was taken just before the deed was done and then he flew away.
Hi
ReplyDeleteThe last comments were meant for the peewit pics, but these are good of the curlew, the use of space makes the images very professional.
Steve