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.hippyd
05/23/06 9:36 PM GMT
wgat is the best way to take a pic of a bird in flight on a fuji s9500.
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&philcUK
05/23/06 9:56 PM GMT
Because of the speed required it may be best to switch off auto focus and image stabilisation if you can as this will improve the cameras reaction times and practise panning and manually focussing on other fast moving objects before hand. A fast aperture/shutter speed will also be essential - I haven’t done much myself so perhaps your best bet will be to scan through the birds gallery and if you see something you like, send a PM to the artist and ask if they would like to help you out with some advice. I’m sure most would be happy to help.
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.hippyd
05/23/06 10:22 PM GMT
thanks i will do that thank you again
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.Dante11
06/04/06 1:59 AM GMT
Do you have a sports mopde on camera?? id so the shutter speed will be fast enough and you will still need to practice panning.......
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.Morat
06/04/06 10:06 PM GMT
"Airborne" in my gallery was a white-tailed Eagle flying about 30 feet away from me at high speed. I tracked it for a second or so before releasing the shutter, and I kept tracking all the way through the shot. It's very tempting to stop moving the camera when you hit the shutter, but it's important to keep the movement going.

That shot was taken at ISO 50 but with the aperture fully open. It was a bright day so I got 1/1250 shutter speed. With no depth of field there was a great danger of missing the focus, but the fast shutter speed gave me good leeway for getting the tracking slightly wrong.

I was also at the widest angle of my Powershot A620, 35mm in 35mm film equivalent. That gave me the best chance of getting the bird in the frame, but means that there's a lot of background clutter in the original image. Because of the 7 megapixel sensor on the A620 I can crop to a quarter of the frame and still get a 1600x1200 image, so it was worth some extra background to be sure of getting the bird in the picture.

To echo what Phil said, practice has to be the key, especially with tracking a moving object. This doesn't have to be photography-based either. Loading up an FPS game on your PC for an hour will give you some high quality tracking training. Studies have shown that people who play such games regularly have the ability to track moving objects more accurately than those who don't, and that they can simultaneously track multiple moving objects at the same time. I've been an avid gamer for years and I'm sure it really helps in taking images like these.

In taking Airborne the only thing I'd have done differently is turning on my cameras continuous shooting mode. With a fast SD card it'll shoot something like 2-3 frames per second until you fill up the storage. If you camera has a similar function then I'd recommend holding down the shutter release for multiple frames while you track your subject to increase the chance of a successful shot.

Hope some of that helps.

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