Bird in flight question

[canonclix]

Thanks Joel, I am still having trouble with the feather detail when they are in flight. The noise reduction may have blurred it a little, but the blur was there in the original RAW file too. Although my other shots are less than pleasing visually, it shows that the movement and wing speed is beyond the 1/1000 to 1/2000 shutter speed I was using.

This one was with the Better Beamer on a 580exii. 300mm f/6.3 1/1000 ISO 640 manual focus, approximately 50ft from the feeder.
Both birds should have been within the focal range here - right? Both birds were within about a foot of each other.

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Joel, I am still having trouble with the feather detail when they are in flight. The noise reduction may have blurred it a little, but the blur was there in the original RAW file too. Although my other shots are less than pleasing visually, it shows that the movement and wing speed is beyond the 1/1000 to 1/2000 shutter speed I was using.

This one was with the Better Beamer on a 580exii. 300mm f/6.3 1/1000 ISO 640 manual focus, approximately 50ft from the feeder.
Both birds should have been within the focal range here - right? Both birds were within about a foot of each other.

I would agree, they could easily be within the depth of field dpending on where the focus point is.

Check this out......http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

[Joel Eade]

Speaking using flash, I saw some images from Ramon Casares where he did a multiflash setup (like Bob Williams does for hummingbirds) for songbirds. He used a setup perch and pre-focused on that spot. some of the images were impressive.

http://www.ramoncasares.net/galerias...hp?id=2&page=4