Curlews

[Alan Campbell]

This is my first capture of some Curlews as it's the closest I have got to them.
Still had to crop

Taken with Canon 7D and 70-300mm f4-5.6 is usm lens



1/2000 sec @ ƒ/5.6 ISO 800 300 mm

IMG_7951curlews (Medium) by balscot, on Flickr

for some reason looks sharper on Flickr


Alan

[Alan_H]

Re: Curlews

Great shot I thought they were lone birds

Alan

[Stan]

Re: Curlews

At least you have a shot of them now - its a start. They do look a bit soft but when you have more than a single bird in the frame it is luck more than anything else if they all turn out sharp

stan

[antoeknee]

Re: Curlews

The call of the curlew is one of the most haunting sounds. Nice image of a bird I've not been able to photograph.

[tesarver]

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Tom

[the black fox]

Re: Curlews

hmmmm just had a look at the pic on flickr and your right its a hell of a lot sharper ,are you selecting 1024 as your size when downloading for here .

also when uploading to flickr i nearly always set my default upload size as 1024 on the longest edge to stop them altering the image to fit there criteria

[the black fox]

Re: Curlews


IMG_7951curlews (Medium) by balscot, on Flickr

just grabbed your shot from there myself size set to 1024x 644 looks a tad sharper to me??

[Chris_R]

Re: Curlews

Nice shot Alan, I've only ever seen them on their own, your lucky to have caught 4 in flight. Your shot does look sharper on Flickr too.

Chris

[Alan Campbell]

Re: Curlews

Thanks all for looking and commenting and thanks for the tip on sizing black fox.
I have changed the image to 1024.

Alan

[Alan Campbell]

Re: Curlews

This is the same birds at take off.


IMG_7947curlews (Medium) by balscot, on Flickr


Alan