Birds In Flight

At Blashford Lakes NR, Hampshire, yesterday morning.

All K5, Sigma 15-500 @ about 450.
TAV mode 1/2000th. F8, manual focus, continuous shooting (hi)


























Thanks for looking, any thoughts most welcome!

Roger.

Nice work for sure, well done.

Regards

Hey that's my local haunt

Like the second one, would have been nice to have caught it trailing the wing through the water though

Thanks, Daron.

Yes Mike, it would have been, wouldn't it.......

but...

"Miracles worked daily.
The impossible takes a little longer!"

Roger.

Agree, no. 2 is good with the reflection and I also really like no. 6, nice grouping.

Hey, you said my thoughts would be most welcome ... I can't help thinking the impossible

Nice, especially the first of the geese photos

Thanks, Rob & Peter.

Oh, all right then, Mike.........
As it's you!




Roger.

Excellent shots. Curious, what ISO please?

I'm also preferring the Canadian Geese

Cheers Gareth & Kev.

They're all iso 800, Kev, apart from no1, which was 1000.
(All are crops.)

Thanks for looking,

Roger.

Cheers. Good shooting. I never use TAV, but you got some good shutter speeds there for a relatively low ISO. 800 is as high as I like to shoot.

Nice shots ☺

Did no one tell you that you can't shoot birds in flight, sports or anything faster than a sloth with a Pentax 😂

Being more serious these shots are very good 👍👍

Yes Stuey, I think I've heard something along those lines about Pentax.......
....& yes, I've missed a few shots through slow af.

But if I can manage to focus a macro lens manually, it's only the same but a bit faster, isn't it?

The bonus is , as I found out yesterday, is that in manual focus, switched on the camera body, a much faster firing rate is achieved in continuous shooting...

so, any tardiness in focus can be compensated by a greater burst rate, in that one may go through the focus-point, then back through it again, but (in simple terms), one will have two good shots.

This wasn't thought through before the session but examining the results led me to the conclusion above.

This could, perhaps, be further refined by the use of C-I-F as well.....?
Looking forward to the next decent light day already!

Any ( non-miraculous/ impossible) thoughts, anyone?

Roger.

Hi Roger

I couldn't resist mentioning at - I have managed birds in flight, football, rallying, motorcycle racing etc - I don't have any complaints with regard to it ☺

Af or mf both are achievable imho 👍