Great shots mate! Are these with the 400mm then? Are they cropped at all? I'm always impressed with shots of birds in flight!
#1 and #4 for me - excellent set all round How hard is it to get accurate exposures with the white bird against the dark backgrounds?
Yes taken with the Canon 400mm 5.6 L, a cracking good lens. No. 1 & 3 are full frame, No. 4 is almost full frame and number 2 the bird was middle of the frame so I cropped a bit off the top right for composition.
Well for me it's very hard, quite a few of the shots when I started were way over exposed ,especially the ones were the bird was small in the frame. So I used a bit of exposure compensation until I got them pretty close, then pulled then back a bit more in processing from RAW.
Excellent Photos Glen, I know how hard it is to get a decent photo of a Gannet flying post. I am guessing you went to Bempton ? http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/index.aspx
That's right Mark, we decided to have a ride out for the day and ended up at Bempton Cliffs a great place for practicing birds in flight.
