Tree Swallows Territory

Gallery: AvianPosted May 25, 2012219 views6 comments

Delightful to watch Swallows dash and dart around like tiny fighter planes, I was delighted to have captured this at Ridgefield NWR, WA State. The two birds on the right were minding their own business, adoring each other (see previous post), when the interloper bird on the left “buzzed” them and caused the “flap” you see here.
D700, 300/2.8 + 1.4 TC, beanbag rest in car window; f 5.6, 1/1000, ISO 800. About a 70% crop. Did some blending in the bg, enhanced motion blur of bird on left, since no in-camera “ss blend” possible(!). :roll eyes:
Hope you enjoy this, and would appreciate comments/critique. Thanks.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Sally Wood on May 25, 2012 at 7:16 PM

Love it... you did a good job of catching the action..

Registered on March 8, 2012, 39 Posts, 509 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on May 25, 2012 at 7:49 PM

Good moment of capture.

Registered on February 18, 2012, 534 Posts, 2755 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on May 25, 2012 at 9:53 PM

Nice action and setting, but as with your previous Tree Swallow post you are too far away and cannot expect to keep decent image quality by such drastic dropping of the image. Your images will show more detail if you can manage to get closer to your subjects.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 25, 2012 at 11:34 PM

Sweet composition, Catherine. I like the use of the enhanced motion blur. That's a trick I'll have to remember.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on May 26, 2012 at 2:12 AM

For me the birds are too small to be an effective element of the photo.

Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments

Comment posted by Howard Cheek on June 8, 2012 at 7:43 AM

Neat action image, I like all the activity you've shown us..Good interest here.
As the others have stated, get a bit closer and you'll have it made.
Thanx for sharing this & have a great weekend!

Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments