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January 23, 2013
January 23, 2013
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) returning to its tree-top nest with a freshly caught lizard, Hungary.
This is taken from a tree-top hide. The camera was manually prefocussed on a point that I thought the kestrel would fly through (nest is out of shot to the left, a perching branch out of shot some way to the right). Then it was a question of waiting... and waiting...
I wish I'd managed to get a bit more detail in the feathers. Maybe next time...
- Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Lens EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM
- Focal Length 300mm
- Shutter Speed 1/1600 sec sec
- Aperture f/f / 3
- ISO/Film 800
- Category Nature
- Uploaded 4 months ago
- Copyright John Gooday
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Great wildlife photography.
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Mike.
this was shot atf 3.5 (not sure what has happened to the info field in the camera details window on the right...) and that gave about the minimum depth of field necessary to get the beak, eye and lizard in focus. I would think f8 or higher would get most of the wing in focus. It wasn't a bright day and I was trying to keep the shutter speed high enough to freeze the bird, withought running into too much high ISO noise hence the wide aperture, but in retrospect I could have upped the ISO and stopped down a bit more.