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[dkommel]

Wood Ducks at Irvine Regional Park in Orange CA yesterday.

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[Jodi Nielson]

White-eyed vireo

[MarkG]

I usually don't take photos of birds in flight, but I decided to try it out today.  I was on a bridge and this time of year Eagles and Ospreys will be flying down the river.  I caught this eagle and I'm very happy with this shot.  

 

[Johnd]

 

[xpoetmarcr]

First, a balancing act ...

 

...then, down the hatch.

[IKLland]

4 hours ago, MarkG said:

 

I usually don't take photos of birds in flight

 

Why not?

[Seanbirds]

13 minutes ago, IKLland said:

Why not?

Too much work, I guess. ?

[Trevor L.]

Mallards... at my feeder?

[IKLland]

2 hours ago, Seanbirds said:

Too much work, I guess. ?

Haha, well my point and shoot isn’t to good for in flight according to @Aidan B( why is that btw?), so I’m half using my highest shutter speed and half practicing how fast I can move my hands! 

[Kevin]

11 hours ago, IKLland said:

Haha, well my point and shoot isn’t to good for in flight according to @Aidan B( why is that btw?), so I’m half using my highest shutter speed and half practicing how fast I can move my hands! 

It probably has a small sensor.

[Birding Boy]

Anhinga. Surprisingly hard to frame these guys

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[IKLland]

1 hour ago, Kevin said:

It probably has a small sensor.

So the sensor is what tracks objects, correct then?

[BlueJay]

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[Johnd]

 

36 minutes ago, IKLland said:

So the sensor is what tracks objects, correct then?

 

13 hours ago, IKLland said:

Haha, well my point and shoot isn’t to good for in flight according to @Aidan B( why is that btw?), so I’m half using my highest shutter speed and half practicing how fast I can move my hands! 

point and shoots are know not having very good/fast autofocus and until recently no ability to use any type of manual focus. to capture good in flight you need to be able to focus quickly.

[BirdNrd]

Black-crowned Night-Heron https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/327203231

Anna's Hummingbird https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/327201781

[roadcykler]

Not the best picture, but I'm a big fan of crows and this one was still long enough to get a couple of pictures.

[The Bird Nuts]

7 hours ago, IKLland said:

So the sensor is what tracks objects, correct then?

 

7 hours ago, Johnd said:

point and shoots are know not having very good/fast autofocus and until recently no ability to use any type of manual focus. to capture good in flight you need to be able to focus quickly.

Yeah, it's the slow autofocus, not the sensor.  The size of the sensor mainly affects image quality.  When photographing birds in flight with a point-and-shoot the technique is to have the focus point on the bird at the time it focuses, not just at the time you press the shutter button halfway.

Edited April 17, 2021 by The Bird Nuts

[Kevin]

10 hours ago, IKLland said:

So the sensor is what tracks objects, correct then?

Oops! I thought we we talking about image quality, for some reason.

[xpoetmarcr]

 

[DLecy]

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[BirdNrd]

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[Connor Cochrane]

Semipalmated Plover

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[BirdNrd]

2 hours ago, BirdNrd said:

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The better link for the photo quality is here. Whatbird compressed the photo. BARS Link

[IKLland]

yesterday's 

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[Seanbirds]

2 hours ago, Connor Cochrane said:

Semipalmated Plover

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/327754931

I need one of those!