Wide-angle Chickadee Flight

Posted by scottleslie on Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:43 pm

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Hi there,
Another Chickadee flight image. Used the 24mm Sigma, focus was at about 10", f11, 1/3200, flash -1.0. ISO 400 full frame. Thanks for looking!

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by ebkw on Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:58 pm

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Another wonderful shot, Scott. I do like the wide angle ones you do. Thanks for posting!!!

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by ebkw on Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:00 pm

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Another point is that I like the way the gray background shows off the buffy flanks.

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by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:06 pm

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I'd really like to know how you get a chickadee this big in the frame with a 24mm lens. This is not a rhetorical question

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by scottleslie on Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:14 pm

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RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto wrote:I'd really like to know how you get a chickadee this big in the frame with a 24mm lens. This is not a rhetorical question

First of all, I'm using a Sigma 24mm 1.8 which will focus to about 2" from the front of the lens. In this case I focussed about 10-11" from the camera. I had the camera set-up on a tripod with long remote release- I took the Canon 26" long release and made it 50' long (used microphone wire!). I was about 8 feet from the bird, in a blind, and he was coming in to land. A chickadee flaring out like this is about the size of your open hand, or slightly smaller. Thanks for asking, Richard.
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by Wil Hershberger on Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:19 pm

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Cool shot.

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by joseph motto on Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:55 pm

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Wow!!!

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by Fero on Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:32 pm

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Another cool Shot Scott!

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by Marc Oliver on Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:44 pm

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Neat!

The fanned out tail feathers make him look like a dart.

You must have a battery pack of some kind for your 380EX? Otherwise the slow recycle times would make this very hit-or-miss I think. I have nothing against fill-flash but I dislike my 380 to the point that I only use it when I don't have a choice.

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by Jim Neely on Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:33 pm

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Another neat wide angle close up. These are killers.

Thanks for the explanation. This is a really interesting technique.

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by Bill Whala on Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:41 pm

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Sweet!! I like the fanned tailfeathers.

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by Neil Fitzgerald on Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:06 pm

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Where did he land, in your lens hood?

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by Alan Murphy on Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:09 pm

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OK Scott, I'm tierd of this,

It's time for some answers. What camera bady are you using? To get one hit, how many frames are you going through?

Awesome photo by the way.

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by BrianS on Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:22 pm

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You are killing me with this technique of yours -- I am now determined to do/learn the same. Thanx for these inspirational posts.

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by Penney Goodwin on Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:34 pm

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As Alan says, this has gone on long enough.

One of these is close to an impossible shot ( at least from this novice's seat) - but all these? Killer images , Scott!

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by scottleslie on Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:22 am

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Alan Murphy wrote:OK Scott, I'm tierd of this, It's time for some answers. What camera bady are you using? To get one hit, how many frames are you going through?

Awesome photo by the way.

Thanks Alan,
I'm using a 10d. On average about half the shots are in the correct position in the frame, but about 4 or 5 out of 35 are both properly framed AND focussed.
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by ebkw on Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:13 pm

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Scott,

That sounds like a terrific average for this type on photography!!!!

Congratulations