Flying Birds: Top 5 Photos of the Week
Successfully shooting Flying birds are rewarding and exciting, but it takes a lot of patience and there is no single surefire approach to it. If every bird in flight were a slow-flying, high-contrast Osprey against a clear blue sky, the task would be easier.
In this article let’s first talk about How to Photograph Flying Birds? and then will share with you some amazing flying birds photos which we have featured from our Facebook group.
How to Photograph Birds in Flight?
One of the most necessary ingredients is patience; you may often photograph an entire day and not get a single usable image. In most cases, there is some luck involved – you have to be in the right place at the right time, after all!
Hopefully, These tips improve your luck and you capture stunning birds in flight photos.
- Learn flight behaviour of the birds: Birds normally have predictable flight behaviour. It requires observation. The more you observe them more you understand their behaviour.
- Start with slow-flying birds
- Use the shutter speed of at least 1/1000th of a second or faster
- Use auto ISO settings up to whatever ISO settings you are comfortable with for your camera
- Always use the highest frames per second burst mode setting.
- If you are a beginner use aperture Priority mode.
- Track before you photograph: When you see a bird in flight, track the bird until the autofocusing system gets enough time to lock the focus. Once it is locked, you can fire off as many shots as you want without losing focus.
- Wait till you get the best or contrasting background.
Bonus Tip: Always use a sturdy tripod while photographing a Flying bird.
If you want to read the in-deft step by step guide then click here.
Weekly Feature (07-June-13June 2021): Flying Bird:
Black-crowned night heron
The black-crowned night heron, or black-capped night heron, commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia. This flying bird photo has photographed in Panampattu Lake, Villupuram.
The red-crested pochard is a large diving duck. The scientific name is derived from Greek Netta “duck”, and Latin rufina, “golden-red”. This flying bird photo has photographed in Chupir chor, WB, India
Male Ruff!
This photo has photographed in Rajkot outskirts, Gujarat.
The spotted dove is a small and somewhat long-tailed pigeon that is a common resident breeding bird across its native range on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia. The species has been introduced to many parts of the world and feral populations have become established. This beautiful flying bird photo has photographed in Howrah, India.
The brahminy kite, formerly known as the red-backed sea-eagle in Australia, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. They are found in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia. This photo has photographed in Tamil Nadu, India.
So thank you to all the photographers who have submitted photos in the Flying Bird theme with the #pwc_fb hashtag. Your pictures can create awareness about the variety and beauty of wildlife in our environment. So feel free to share it on your social media.
We have featured these photos from our Facebook Group. Next week, you can be the one here, for that, Please join the group and follow the Weekly Challenge Rule.
