Osprey Dive Series

D300s
600mm NO TC
F/8
ISO 640
1/2000
Aperture Priority
Exposure Compensation -1 1/3
White Balance Cloudy
Metering Mode Pattern
Single focus point (thanks Ron B.)
Shot in RAW
Cropped 48%
Wimberly Head on tripod

Ron's image of the Osprey making a dive a few months ago has truly inspired me to try and get that type of shot. This will be a three part series. This first shot is just after the osprey banked and stared to dive. Typically, as the osprey goes through the back ground I lose focus on the back ground. But Ron convinced me to use a single focus point. It's definitely more difficult to keep the focus point exactly on the bird but if you do you get rewarded more often with better images. The downside is that I lose focus more often. Since Ron posted his osprey I have made almost 20 attempts at osprey's diving with images that were either slightly out of focus or totally out of focus. I don't think these will measure up to Ron's fantastic osprey image but the three are my personal best so far. I'm going to keep trying. That's all I can do. Check back for shot 2 and shot 3. Thanks for having a look see. Have a great week.