Male Purple Martin Flying

Posted by Juan E. Bahamon on Sun Apr 18, 2004 11:21 pm

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Canon 1Ds 400 5.6 L Lens at 5.6 1/1250 ISO 400 Tripod, Ball head. Manual Incident Metering BB -2 Cropped ~ 40%

Yesterday morning I was kind of masochist tryng to nail these purple martins in flight, I took more than 500 pictures and end up with a very sore neck and very few keepers. I was using the 400 5,6L with the Ds, although the body was slow in acquiring focus, but when the bird approached the house I have so much information on the sensor that I was able to crop without losing detail.

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by AForns on Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:55 am

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Juan I can sympathize with you....Friday I was doing the same thing there was a strong wind from my sun angle and decided to give them a try.

I think I nailed one with nesting material but want to check it on my big monitor

(computer currently down

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Great shot everything about those little guys is hard, exposure is dead on, great pose and sharp Congratulations a real keeper

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by AlexC on Mon Apr 19, 2004 9:53 am

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Juan, not an east feat, hard to expose properly and a fast/small bird as well, Now you know how I feeling about handheld fly-shots!! Congrats!!

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by LHays on Mon Apr 19, 2004 1:31 pm

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Juan
This is a great shot.....and very difficult to get. All I can say is that you must have too much free time on your hands because it would take me days to get just one of these. Excellent capture!!!

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by ebkw on Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:36 pm

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Well done, Juan!!! Congratulations!!!

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by Juli Wilcox on Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:48 pm

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Excellent! Persistance pays and so do those cropping shears.

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by christoforos on Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:51 pm

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You must have been very patient!!!
I once tried to follow flight of bank swallows with the 400 and a 10D(!!) in Greece and I know what you went through (needless to say I wasn't very succesfull).
This is a wonderful shot IMO.
Congrats.

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by Sandy Mossberg on Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:31 am