A series of birds

[pecunium]

I was going through the bird shots from Shoreline Park, and found these three.

Closing in



Lese Majeste


This one is larger than the others, because the details on the wings are nicely detailed.

Body Blow


This one is the raison d'être for this series. I've never been sure if mobbing birds actually hit the targets of their aggression, because it's alway so fast, but at least I can say this one does.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Re "their", etc. I am having a devil of a time of late with trying to type, "want's".

To cameras. I am lucky. I have a digital which was meant for sports. It's hella fast. There is no more shutter lag with it, than there is with a film camera (the mirror has to get out of the way). I've also practiced at rapid strokes of the shutter release.

I'm only a little fond of "motor drive". I taught myself to use it by shooting diving practice in college (there is a subject for B&W, I should look into it at my new school. I want to shoot more people than I have been), but unless the subject is repetitive, the mind's-eye says, "if you'd been timing it, rather than, 'spray and pray.' with the motor drive, you'd not have been just before, and just after," whatever the critical moment was.

Which is nonsense, I miss lots of those with my finger doing the work. My real dislike of digital motor drive is filling the buffer and being unable to get the next shot.