"Feathered Bullets!"
Swallows are very fast and acrobatic fliers. They have to be to catch their food, flying insects, on the wing.
While in southern Ontario last month, on my spring migration trip, I decided to try and capture some images of swallows in flight. It was a very challenging exercise and I despite many attempts I was only able to get a few reasonable shots. Frequently just as I would get a bird in focus it would swerve left, right, up or down before I could take its picture.
This image of a male Tree Swallow was created in Wheatley Provincial Park in the early evening of May 7, 2017. The light was fading and I really had to boost my ISO in order to minimise blur. I needed to apply noise reduction to improve the final image.
"Feathered Bullets!"
Swallows are very fast and acrobatic fliers. They have to be to catch their food, flying insects, on the wing.
While in southern Ontario last month, on my spring migration trip, I decided to try and capture some images of swallows in flight. It was a very challenging exercise and I despite many attempts I was only able to get a few reasonable shots. Frequently just as I would get a bird in focus it would swerve left, right, up or down before I could take its picture.
This image of a male Tree Swallow was created in Wheatley Provincial Park in the early evening of May 7, 2017. The light was fading and I really had to boost my ISO in order to minimise blur. I needed to apply noise reduction to improve the final image.