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Posted by Mike Acreman on February 10, 2010 at 10:31 AM
starlings
yet another image taken this week near my home in taunton. canon 40d sigma 18-200 lense 1/250sec/f4/ iso800
Posted by Cliff Young on February 10, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Mike, a spectacular sight and well-framed shot but I feel it could have been even better given a greater depth of field. Maybe you didn't have much room for manoeuvre as I see you were already shooting at f/4 and iso800? Cliff
Posted by Tom Smit on February 10, 2010 at 12:54 PM
It seems a great experience to me such great number of birds behaving like a school of fish. I've seen this myself, but with a lot less birds and I was surprised with their movements.
:toast: :toast:
Posted by John Chapman on February 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Hi Mike, another great spectacle. :toast:
Posted by Justin on February 10, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Doesn't quite have the quality of your previous one but an interesting composition with the birds going from corner to corner.
Posted by Brett Lewis on February 11, 2010 at 4:25 AM
Not sharp enough for my tastes and I guess that's because of the availability of light. I think you'll find you were shooting at 1/25 of a sec rather than 1/250 sec which is why there is a lot more blur in motion than you might expect, again because of the light I suspect.

Brett :toast: