Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

[Stan]

The last shots as we were leaving Barnes on Saturday.

Dee got the wings down

7D II, 1/1600, f8, ISO 800, 420mm


and i got the wings up
7DII, 1/1000, f7.1, ISO 800, 420mm


Stan

[Tigger]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

impressive shots both of you.. although Dees seems to have stronger colours, did you tweak the vibrancy? but not yours?

[the black fox]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

super the beauty of 10fps

[Nathaniel]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

Beautiful pics from both of you. Well done.

[Stan]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

thanks guys

although Dees seems to have stronger colours, did you tweak the vibrancy? but not yours

just slightly different light i think and they are different birds. Dee got hers first as we were about to walk to the car - typical, she always gets the shot of the day when we go out together - we then bumped into Brian following which i decided to have another shot at the flight before we went home - so about 10 minutes between them

stan

[Tigger]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

with ya, I assume you were standing next to each other and it was the same bird

[Stan]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

I assume you were standing next to each other and it was the same bird

no, she was halfway to the car and i think it was a different tree it flew off as well

Stan

[tesarver]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

Very impressive to you both

Tom

[antoeknee]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

Just out of interest Stan can I ask what settings you have on the AF for BIF.
i.e. Number of focus points, case and if you've alerted things like tracking sensitivity, acceleration, AF point auto switching

[Stan]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

thanks Tom

Just out of interest Stan can I ask what settings you have on the AF for BIF.

having only shot the occasional bird in flight with the new camera so far, I havent really altered or experimented with anything, so it is just set to case 1 and single centre point focus

stan

[Bill53]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

Nice shots Stan.
Somehow I find it difficult to accept these birds being in an English environment always tending to think of them as an exotic species.

Bill.

[Stan]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

thanks Bill

Stan

[Brian Sugden]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

Very nice Dee and Stan. Compositionally very strong. The AF on the 7D2 looks awesome.

Bill, apparently some escaped from an aviary in Surrey and began breeding. You can find them all over Surrey, especially at Barnes WWT, Bushey and Richmond Park.

Brian

[AndyL]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

Nice shots!

[David Morison]

Re: Ring Necked Parakeet - flight

Nice shots and well exposed. For BIFs I am still experimenting with AF Servo settings on the 7DII but the advice offered in Roger Clark's review seems to be working well so far (originally posted in Digital Cameras):

http://www.clarkvision.com/reviews/evaluation-canon-7dii/

David