3 Sandhills in Flight

Gallery: AvianPosted December 22, 20174,211 views7 comments

I was disappointed with all but a handful of flight shots from my recent trip to Bosque, this being one that I thought worthwhile, albeit not very good. I liked the approach angle and flight positions of this trio with the juvenile flanked by the parents.

7D2 400 DO F4 +1.4x on Wimberley I, ISO 400 1/2500 f6.3 +1.0EV

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7 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on December 22, 2017 at 6:37 PM

Excellent image quality, Bill. I do like the wing positions. I take a lot of this kind, but I do prefer some other bg than the blue sky. Unfortunately, AF works best on that, so that's where I have the most keepers. Given that line, you might want to crop to a pano.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on December 22, 2017 at 8:08 PM

Dennis made an excellent suggestion! I would count this a keeper, but I've only been by there, and I only have some captivity shots of Sandhills! cheeky

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on December 22, 2017 at 8:38 PM

I like the perfect spacing in this one along with the two similar and one very different pose, nice work Bill. devil

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on December 22, 2017 at 10:29 PM

Ditto Nate's comment. I love the diagonal and the spacing.

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Comment posted by Richard Sandor on December 24, 2017 at 10:41 AM

Bill: very good to have captured the birds on the diagonal and so nicely spaced. Maybe a pano crop would work in this situation since the sky doesn't offer much in the way of interest. Richard

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on December 24, 2017 at 2:53 PM

Thanks for the comments. I was lucky with the spacing between the birds. I actually saved a pano version as Dennis and Richard suggest, but decided to keep the 3:2 aspect.

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Comment posted by David Schoen on December 25, 2017 at 6:37 PM

The large image has superb detail. These birds are fine to watch in flight and this is well done and composed.

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