[Tweeters] Birds in Flight (BIF) photography

[Dennis Paulson]

Many new cameras allow you to specify what you are trying to photograph by selecting “bird” (or airplane or automobile, etc.) in a menu. When you get the moving object in in the viewfinder, it draws a box around it, and I find it easier to follow birds in flight with that box. Whatever is in the box it keeps in focus.

I’m totally addicted to BIF photography. I’m using an OM Systems (formerly Olympus) OM-1 with an Olympus 100-400 mm telephoto lens, and I’m doing a lot better with fast-flying birds than I used to. Vaux’s Swifts are among the very most difficult!

Dennis Paulson
Seattle


> On Apr 6, 2023, at 12:18 PM, Richard James <rich at rjassociates.ca> wrote:

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>> Message: 6 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 18:27:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Peggy  Mundy <peggy_busby at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Birds in Flight

>> (BIF) photography

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>> BIF photography is fun, but yes, swifts and swallows are tough.?

>> Here are my tips that I have shared with others,?

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>> I set my camera to Continuous High (I shoot Nikon, other manufacturers may call it differently).? Allows you to take multiple

>> frames quickly.

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> In addition, set the focus mode to "closest object" or "Group" (latest

> Nikons) as the bird will generally be closest, esp in flight.

> 

>> - Practice, practice, practice!??

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> And more...

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> From an Island in the Pacific,

> Richard James, Victoria, BC

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