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Swift Sparrows

Hungry sparrows feeding from the hand outside Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, France.

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Hungry sparrows feeding from the hand outside Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, France.

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Canon EOS 7D

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Aperture f/2.8 ISO 100 Shutter 1/400

upload_date

Apr, 2014

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Animals

Platinum

AMAZING AND WONDERFUL PHOTO.

Congrats on your feature!

someone's a real Doctor Doolittle!! Great job. :))

Congratulation on being feature!

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Love this...how long did it take for the birds to trust you enough to feed from your hand? COngrats on your feature!

Simply Wow!

PRO+

Impresssive! Wonderful capture.

An interaction with rewards! Congrats!

Great shot. Congratulations on being Featured.

PRO

congrats. stunning

Great shot!!!!!!!!!

very nice.

Congrats, this is a brilliant photograph.

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So Amazing!!! Please Take a look at my Sparrow photos.
Congratulations!!!

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Amazing shot. Congrats on the feature.

Bravo !

A wonderful shot, well done, and congratulations on the feature :)

excellent,bravo

Incredible shot... Congrats!! ")

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It takes a special type of person to get these guys to do this. They are really skittish birds. I love this shot.

Premium

I am so jealous, this is next to my heart. wild birds trusting people and we are able to capture it.

Absolutely fantastic, well done!!

Great shot!
Congrats on being feature ! ;)

wow

Good job!

Awesome...

ultimate work

Awesome capture ! Congrats !

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Behind The Lens

Location

Outside Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France

Time

Morning

Lighting

The light was beautiful at this time of day, not too harsh as it was autumn in Paris and just enough to get a high enough shutter speed to capture the fast motion.

Equipment

Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal Length: 200 mm Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec Aperture: f/2.8 ISO: 100

Inspiration

It was a beautiful autumn day in Paris, I just arrived at the magnificent 850 year old Notre Dame Cathedral. Outside the cathedral, sparrows were flying in and out amongst the hundreds of tourists, feeding from their hands. I thought this was quite an amazing site in an already amazing place. It added to the overall beauty and magic of Notre Dame. This inspired me to pull out my camera and take the photo.

Editing

Minor curves adjustment to enhance contrast.

In my camera bag

At the moment: Cameras: Sony a7R and Sony RX1 Lenses: Sony FE 70-200mm, Sony FE 24-70mm, Sony E 10-18mm, Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f1.1

Feedback

For shooting birds in flight, particularly small and fast birds such as sparrows you must have a camera with fast auto-focus. Set the auto-focus to continuous AF, and shutter speed to a minimum of 1/400th of a second. Track the birds and continually re-press the shutter half-way during shooting to refocus on the birds, as soon as you feel you have good focus, press down the shutter fully and take several shots at a time before again repeating the process. This will enable you to have a few series of shots where you should no doubt have a few keepers.

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