Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Pieter,


I live in central Kentucky in a heavily wooded area so not much opportunity for flight shots, I have taken some gulls in flight at a local lake but we do not have a large population of Herrons or other large species that lend themselves to flight shots. I have not spent much time attempting flight shots but would love to travel someday to such a location.


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[Joel Eade]

Here is one of my few BIF shots.....I don't like the background much but I did manage to get the bird in focus with a decent head angle.


This was with 1D MKIII + 300mm 2.8L + 1.4TC


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[JJphoto]

Joel, I can see the difference between before and after, especially on the bird's eye, I'm ordering my photoshop rightnow[]


that GBH in flight is really a nice one!, I like that there are so much detail of the wing even with such a dark background.


I feel lucky I live in the area with many opportunity of BIF.


thanks again Joel