One from friday taken at marsh side nr southport i appear to have found a particularly good spot as I haven't seen any other photographers there mind you that might have something to do how bloody cold it is where I stand.
Phillip.
D2x 800mm sigma f11 @ 1/640 iso200 a small crop and post processed in Bibble 4.9.5
Posted by Andy Shepherd on February 4, 2007 at 12:13 PM
Hi Phillip,
Very nice shot , formation flying at it's best.
Kind regards
Andy...
Posted by Elliott Neep on February 4, 2007 at 1:55 PM
Cracking Phil! Looking forward to seeing the same. Lovely tight formation there.
Posted by Andy Bate on February 4, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Hi Andy by the fence near the golf course there is a white pipe sticking out from behind the boundary mound stand there on top of the mound.
Hi Tom the wingtips are what the wingtips are nothing done to them the tip of the wing is probably travelling around 120 -150mph, the tight crop is because they are nearly out of the frame I have just evened it up on the right-hand side.
Phillip.
Posted by Andy Bate on February 4, 2007 at 5:18 PM
hi phil, i am a member of that golf club and there is a old footpath that runs near the fence of the marsh, they got it closed of to dogwalkers and birdwatchers but members and there friends are allowed!!! let me know if you ever want to go down there and well meet up.
Posted by Andy Bate on February 4, 2007 at 5:51 PM
no probs, away early part of this week but anytime after that, drop me a line
Posted by John Gardner on February 5, 2007 at 12:58 PM
Very nice Phil. Yes, tight in the frame but we need a few frame fillers every now and again. They always go down well in lectures etc. I was going to make my first visit to marsh side on Saturday after Martin Mere but got fogged off
Its interesting, I have just worked this out as I never had before.
150mph (Phils upper estimate) = 67 mps = means the wing tips moved 10cm during the exposure of 640'.
As it happens the movement looks about 4cm so the wing tips where probably doing about 60mph - hell's bells. I wonder what the wing tips of a Hummingbird move at.
Hi Tom interesting, I did read some were that you need 1/20,000 to make sure there is no wing movement with humming birds I think my sb80 does that @ 1/64th power most of the higher quality flashguns from nikon and Canon have exceedingly high flash speeds at the lower powers.
Discussion
11 repliesPhillip.
D2x 800mm sigma f11 @ 1/640 iso200 a small crop and post processed in Bibble 4.9.5
Very nice shot , formation flying at it's best.
Kind regards
Andy...
T
Hi Tom the wingtips are what the wingtips are nothing done to them the tip of the wing is probably travelling around 120 -150mph, the tight crop is because they are nearly out of the frame I have just evened it up on the right-hand side.
Phillip.
Phillip.
John
150mph (Phils upper estimate) = 67 mps = means the wing tips moved 10cm during the exposure of 640'.
As it happens the movement looks about 4cm so the wing tips where probably doing about 60mph - hell's bells. I wonder what the wing tips of a Hummingbird move at.
T
Phillip.