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Male & female pochard in-flight

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Posted by Alan Bryant on February 23, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Male & female pochard in-flight
I was lucky to get both the male and female in the same shot :cool:

1D MK3
500f4
ISO 250
1/1250 @ f/5.6

Comments welcome

Thanks for looking :smile:
Posted by Rob Howard on February 23, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Hi Alan,

Lovely image. What focus point did you use? or was it ring of fire. I did'nt think f5.6 would be enough to get both birds sharp :confused: I await to be educated :biggrin:

Nice work

Regards

Rob
Posted by Ian Hay on February 23, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Very good, great background and as you say great to get a couple.

Ian Hay
Posted by Alan Bryant on February 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM
I never use the "ring of fire", cuz i like to use only one focus point.With this one i was using the centre focus point, focusing on the female on the right.I just cropped it for comp.

Oh and yes i was lucky again that they were both in the same focus field for the f/5.6 :biggrin:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on February 23, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Hi Alan,

Very good capture , like the comp :toast: :toast:

Having bought a MK3 today I only hope it works as good as this , I might have a few questions over the coming weeks :biggrin: :wink:

Regards

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Matt Cole on February 24, 2008 at 3:01 AM
a very nice image, great to get both male and female. A lovely background too.

Matt
Posted by Ian Andrews on February 24, 2008 at 6:22 AM
Yes, a cracking capture and well cropped too.

Ian :smile:
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on February 24, 2008 at 6:40 AM
Hi Alan,
great shot, I love the colour.

And the right formation :cool: :biggrin:

Have fun.

Bertl Menegoni
Innsbruck
Austria
www.InnsbruckNaturfoto.com

Posted by Paul Inglis on February 24, 2008 at 7:41 AM
Hi Alan,

Superb! You're nailed this one!
:toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on February 24, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Hello Alan.

Lovely capture and the background is some thing else. It all works beautifuly for me. :wavey:
Posted by eric weight on February 24, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Lucky? I don't think so. If you are, then can you fill in my lottery tickets for me, but you've posted so many good flight shots lately that I suspect skill might be involved somewhere.
:toast: :toast: Eric
Posted by Major Gilbert on February 24, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Yes its all come together well in this one Alan. Love the colours. :toast:

Major.
Posted by Tom_W on February 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Agree with Major, just flip it l/r
Posted by Elliott Neep on February 25, 2008 at 4:44 AM
Excellent stuff and agree with above comment. :toast: :toast: