A crow lifts off from the pole he was standing on, with his wings spread out to glide down.
Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 600mm |
ISO | 2500 |
Shutter speed | 1/4000s |
I was there too
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.
Aperture | ƒ/5 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 160.3mm |
ISO | 2000 |
Shutter speed | 1/4000s |
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!
Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 436mm |
ISO | 2000 |
Shutter speed | 1/4000s |