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Familar Flyer

Familar Flyer

Texas Blue Jay on approach.

Texas Blue Jay on approach.
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Mar, 2013

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Excellent, awesome capture!

Small birds at flight are so difficult!!! Congrats, beautiful capture!!!

Great shot!

Wonderfully captured!

Great shot!

Congratulations on the thumbs up! Adding to my faves!

Beautiful!!

Excellent work. The detail is fantastic! Congrats

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Wow - awesome capture! Detail is amazing too! Congrats!

Wow! Great Shot!

Just a stunning capture !
Cheers Maureen :-)

Perfect capture......you nailed it....

Great shot! Love everything about it!

Great work!

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Behind The Lens

Location

The Hill Country of Central Texas.

Time

10:29am

Lighting

No flash and overcast. 10 fps burst.

Equipment

Canon 1D Mark III, 300mm f/2.8 + 1.4x extension. Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod & RC2322 joystick head.

Inspiration

Shooting songbirds in flight is a challenge..

Editing

Standard post processing using Adobe CS4. Selective noise reduction/sharpening.

In my camera bag

Canon 1D M3 body. Lenses include the 300mm f/2.8 prime, 1.4 & 2x ext. Sigma 150mm f/2.8, 24-105mm Canon

Feedback

I used a raised feeding platform a few off the ground. Watched the bird to see the spot it would repeatedly come to. Manually focused to that area. Timed bursts on approach.

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