Friday 17 April 2009

Low Flying at St Gothians

Late start today due to the van not starting, 3 hours and 2 RAC chaps to fix it!!!! Anyhow managed to get to Godrevy for 3pm instead of 12, sun was out most of the time so used the light to photograph the swallows and sand martins. It is best to get the swallows flying towards the sun to illuminate the red/black head. The pictures are here but it wasn't easy, tried first with the teleconverter but no joy once i reverted to standard 6oomm shots started coming off. Click on the images to see a larger version.


Swallow: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4.5, 1/1000 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop


Sand Martin: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4.5, 1/2500 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop






Swallow: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4.5, 1/2000 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop








Sand Martin: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4.5, 1/800 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop

















Swallow: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4.5, 1/640 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop













Buzzard: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, 1/2000 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop









Rook: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4.5, 1/1000 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop






Sand Martins; Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4.5, 1/800 sec, ISO 400, + 1 Stop







2 comments:

Ashley Hugo said...

I've just bought DSLR user and your pictures are great!!
The first shot is amazing.
Also nice Sand Martin and Swallow shot's.

Sam and Lisa said...

Brillant set of pictures, I Know how difficult it is to photograph Sands.
Sam