Swallows fly fast!

Two swallows in the air, one out of focus above a rural landscape with a house in the background and some poles.

Swallows fly really fast and they’re difficult to photograph in flight, so when I managed to catch this one in flight I had to share both.

As I was advised by Rory, I didn’t zoom in which made it easier to catch them crossing the scene. On my Sony camera I set it to wide focus and I must have tracking enabled somewhere in the settings because it did a remarkable job of tracking the bird, showing green focus spots moving quickly across the screen!

This is a heavily cropped image, and it has been cleaned up in Topaz Photo AI.


Apertureƒ/5
CameraILCE-7M3
Focal length160.3mm
ISO2000
Shutter speed1/4000s

The Crow and the Swallow

A crow stands on top of a pole as a swallow flies past him. Those swallows are really hard to photograph, so I zoomed in on the top of the pole and just watched the pole, without looking through the camera. When I saw a swallow fly close, I hit the shutter button hoping burst mode would take help me catch it in flight!


Apertureƒ/6.3
CameraILCE-7M3
Focal length436mm
ISO2000
Shutter speed1/4000s