More fliers from the 400 5.6L

Here are more Philippine birds in flight, taken with the hand held 20D + 400 5.6L.

1. Grass Owl (Tyto capensis), 1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800

Okay, you're just having way too much fun with that lens. Great shots!

Sir, it would be a service to tutor we poor saps in the very fine art of flying bird shooting. You are the master.

Superb images as always. Thanks for making the rest of us, (well me at least) feel incredibly inept.

I love the second image! and I gotta ask; do you know any good places to take pictures in Cagayan? I'm going to be going back this january 29th to february 12th and I'll be staying in Tuguegarao mostly.

Quite impressive to hand hold that lens and get such sharp images. Congrats.

Thanks everybody for the comments.

Polvoronn, I've never birded in the Cagayan region. I hope I can go there this summer, as the Sierra Madre mountain range has some of the last patches of virgin forest remaining in our islands.

The area is a nature paradise though, and I'm sure you'll see a lot out of scenic places to photograph.

Romy

the third shot is fantastic...thanks alot

These might have surpassed your previous posts which I didnt think was possible.

Listen Romy, I feel you should be banished from this Forum.....and while you are leaving, please take Dimitri with you. The reason being that your photos make the rest of us mishappen saps (really, I can only speak for miself with conviction) look like camera obscura dilettantes.

Seriously, heaping compliments does not cut it any more, it's getting oversaturated.
So how about some sincere critique ?
I am an absolute Photoshop ignoramus, but these shots appear to be over-done wrt sharpness and colouring......mind you, it must have been done extremely skillfully...yet, perhaps so much so that the images lose some of plausibility (reality) in my eyes. I hope this will make some sense to you.

Petkal has a point LOL !! I am just going to put my lens on the ground and jump on it, though.

No 2 is an Epic picture very well done, that lens is my next aquisition and I can't wait, of course it won't enable me to take photo's like you do that takes talent which is in short supply wherever I am

Run out of words to say, simply stunning.

Blooming marvelous. Flight images of the highest calibre!!

Petkal, you might want to check your monitor settings if these look over saturated and to sharp. They look bang on from where I sit

They are all nice Romy,but that No 2 (white on black) ? Simply stunning.