Shooter

So I sat around this pond in E. Wash. during the day when I wasn't out Elk hunting because of the heat and worked on catching these guy's.

Forgive any bad ones due to processing as my laptop is dead right now due to a power connection issue on the mother board.

So I have to work on them on the old family desktop with a old Version 4 of Photoshop.
These are all Jpeg's, as I can't access the RAW files.

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OK, so these guy's weren't flying.

xqsme

great shot!

asteelo

Those are friggin awesome!

eric

Very cool Kirk. Just curious, how many shots did you take in total?

Metonymy

Showoff. :P

Nice stuff.

xqsme

I tried that before but no luck. So I killed one and just tied him to a string and then photoshoped it..LOL

Photohog

I don't know what it is - they're just not as pretty DEAD!

balut

wow!

Shooter

Thanks everyone, It was fun and relaxing to do.
Just sat in my chair along the water with my mono pod between my legs and watched and waited.

At 200mm with the focus set to 21points wait for the hover that may last 3-6 seconds, hit focus, then zoom to 400mm, switch the center focus point, then hold the button down to grab as many shots as the buffer could hold.
Sometimes focus wouldn't even see them do to the grassy background.


I counted 139 pictures, all are like these, I choose these based on where the wings were in the stroke. I mean, you get the idea from these 9 right?
I also counted the missing files, either deleted while shooting because of a miss, or focus issue.
There are 31 files missing. Not a bad ratio, if I do say so myself

JayT

Sweet shots!!!

eric

#2 in particular I like. The wings get lost in the darker backgrounds, the blue against the green looks cool

Brady

Ok, so maybe Im late on this thread but Ben, you crack me up man!! HAHAAA