Falcon Attack

Falcon dives down from upper right. f3.2 1/800 sec.
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Falcon is in the midst of the Sandpiper flock. f3.2 1/800 sec.

Flock is being divided and falcon now center above flock. f3.2 1/800 sec.

Flock divided moments later and the unlucky Falcon has left. f3.2 1/1000 sec.

Swarming Dunlin Sandpipers trying to protect themselves in numbers over the Puget Sound, the Peregrine Falcon tried several times to make a kill and failed.

Ross 

Images In Light 

Night Photography

Image: 5D Mk III, 24-105 f4 L IS

Taking photos at night is mostly about getting focus, here I was setup on a tripod and set my focus on one of the windows, there was enough contrast for the auto focus to pick it up, I set my aperture to f7.1 to get a bit faster shutter speed.

 Image: 5D Mk III, 24-105 f4 L IS

 Again I got enough light on the window for auto focus to work and tried to maintain about 20 sec exposure to keep the stars pinpoint instead of streaks.

so some basic rules are keep the exposure as fast as you can at ISO 100, use a tripod, find contrast for your auto focus to work or switch to manual focus, if there are no stars or you want to impart movement somehow go with a longer exposure, if its very dark you may need to bump up your ISO to 1600 to get a faster shutter speed.

Its amazing what can be done with today's cameras, tomorrows, well ?.................

Ross

Images In light