CITA - Caught in the Act!

[Mushr00m]

My recent interest is to hunt for flying birds & 'shoot' them..
Here's some to share.

For the 1st pics (and some others), I wish I had zoomed out a bit, so that when the bird started to fly, I coule still get them fully in frame.. Hm, a lesson for me.








Camera: Canon 450D
Lens: 70-200 F2.8L


Hope you enjoy it! ^_^
Minh

[xhanyb]

#3 is my fave! Great shots!

[pjflan7]

Third one is a beautiful shot of graceful movement with a soft background...very nice

[leonaashlee]

CITA for sure...that second shot is amazing. Nice work on all of them.

[Mushr00m]

thanks everyone for your comments! I do appreciate that

[deltacsar665]

great shots, you captured the motion in the pics excellently.

[moby]

great shots, second is my favorite.

[Preacherman]

Hi Minh. My favourite subjects which you have caught well in motion. The secret is to learn to identify the little signs and habits of the birds that indicate they are about to move or take off. I hope you continue in your endeavours to capture these wonderful creatures in flight, cos I for one will enjoy viewing. Many thanks for a good start to my day. PAUL

[nswphotos]

Thats some really nice shots, great focus and colours, I really favour the last two!! You got me wanting that 70-200 F2.8L, Darn!!

[Mushr00m]

Originally Posted by Preacherman

Hi Minh. My favourite subjects which you have caught well in motion. The secret is to learn to identify the little signs and habits of the birds that indicate they are about to move or take off. I hope you continue in your endeavours to capture these wonderful creatures in flight, cos I for one will enjoy viewing. Many thanks for a good start to my day. PAUL

Thanks so much PAUL for your advise!
You're just totally right.. I learnt that in order to get a bird in action, I have to take a landing one & follow him until he takes off, and yes.. key thing is anticipating when he's about to..
One more thing, birds in Aussie (where I stayed for holiday & took this series) are much EASIER (than in Vietnam, at least!) they are not afraid of humans, esp. seagulls, they are everywhere
It's much harder to take a nice bird shot here in Vietnam. But I'll keep trying! ^^

Minh