{"id":752,"date":"2006-11-20T21:11:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T21:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/752"},"modified":"2013-11-30T18:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T18:11:47","slug":"still-looking-up-birds-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/still-looking-up-birds-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Still looking up: birds in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After having had some outside work here rained off this morning, I managed to spend a couple of hours outside this afternoon with the camera pointed strictly at the sky. Photographing birds in flight is an art, and one I have no where near mastered yet (and before you disagree take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Dudley\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=16752&amp;picture=165874\" target=\"_blank\">seagull by Andy<\/a>). So there I was, trying various different settings on the camera, mainly upping the shutter speed and trying to get as much light into the lens as possible. Three-quarters of what I took ended up in the recycle bin, some are being kept until I get round to recycling them, and a few&#8230; a very few&#8230; have made it to here.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/gull2_201106008.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Herring Gull<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/pigeon2_201106009.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Exocet Pigeon \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/crow2_201106010.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Crow<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those were all taken within the limits of the optical zoom on my Canon S2 <i>IS<\/i>. The next three were taken using the digital zoom on top of that, approximating about 35-40x magnification. The blighter was flying at one heck of an altitude and I could barely see it with the naked eye. So although the pictures aren&#39;t great, I&#39;m more delighted with these than anything else I got today.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/birdofprey_201106031.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/birdofprey_201106032crop.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/birdofprey_201106033.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The wings and tail shape confirm this as a Sparrowhawk<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,980,1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}