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Know what kind of critter this might be? Don't think I've ever seen one of 'em before.
This is a Swallow-tailed Kite feeding in a field next to a chicken factory. There were about 50 of them in constant motion eating the insects. They catch the bugs with their feet and then retrieve it with their beak and eat it as they swoop down on another one. They are getting their nourishment before they migrate to South America in a week or two.
It's so nice to hear from you!
Clabo: Hmm, not sure what kind of camera you have (yeah, I saw it's an Olympus, but some point'n'shoots or all-in-one SLR-looking cameras have weird-sounding focal-lengths and whatnot).
Anyway, for moving critters like birds and even bugs, I still don't raise the ISO above 400 unless it's *really* dark (relatively speaking) and I'm getting sucky shutter-times.
But f/9 seems great for quality, but *not* for speed. f/8 is around the "sweet spot" for quality, whereas wide-open ostensibly lets aberrations around the edges of the lens to possibly foul the image, and more of a pinhole (beyond f/11 or so) introduces diffraction effects (basically, blurring of fine details no matter how "perfectly focussed" it might be). Personally, I shot the same bird on the ground at f/8 and then wfo at f/5.6 and didn't notice *any* difference even zoomed waaaaaaaaay in. So I'd check first what opening it up wide does to the shot, and if it's not bad, keep it wiiiiiiiide open for fastest shutter-speeds / shortest shutter-times.
I imagine the critter was fully zoomed-in at 180mm? Dunno if you had a 200mm lens or what, but that smidge might bring it in a little closer.
Soooooo, for fast-moving critters, keep the lens wfo as much as possible for the smallest possible f-number. 1/400sec is okay, but I'd *try* for 1/1000sec instead, minimum. And shoot repeatedly, as fast as the camera allows. If it doesn't automatically shoot continuously, keep the camera *steady* and gently press-press-press the button to shoot quickly. Getting excited and pounding on the button just shakes the camera.
Finally, be patient. Those bumblebee pix in my "Flight" series?? *MAYBE* 1 in 20 even came out at all, and 19-20 were just nicely-focussed shots of the background, and those were when the bees were hovering or at least moving slowly, not darting around at lightspeed. I'd even say 1 in 50, but I'll be "generous". Dragonflies? Forget it, 1 in *100* came out at all, after over an hour of *trying*, I only got a handful of shots that even showed an x-shaped blur, and only 4-5 out of something like *500-800* shots (no kidding, *that* many) were those I posted.
Dial in your aperture to f/5.6 or whatever's wide-open, and then shoot aperture-priority and check the shutter-times. Try for 1/1000sec or faster. If it's in the 3-digits like 1/400sec, maybe kick up the ISO to the next-higher step and see. 1/250sec at ISO-400 will become 1/500sec at ISO-800, 1/1000sec at ISO-1600, etc. Basically, doubling the ISO halves the shutter-time / doubles the speed, but at the expense of graininess and noise in the shot.
Seagulls in flight I can do in my sleep now, after chasing around bugs and fast birds like swallows.
Oh, one last item, mind the "1/f rule". For *STATIONARY* shots, whatever zoom on the lens is the reciprocal of the min shutter-speed you can expect to get a decent shot maybe half the time. So if I shoot a *LANDSCAPE* at 300mm, 1/300sec is about what I'd expect to get a decent shot half the time. 1/600sec would be better, 1/1000sec better still, which just increases your *CHANCES* of getting a steady shot.
That's why I kinda gloat (to myself) at taking the "impossible shot", like the one out my dreaded Attic Window™ at something like ~100mm, but at 1/10sec!!! Of course, I had to take like 20-30 shots and cherrypick the one(s) that came out clear, as *MOST* of them were blurry from camera-shake!
1/f is about a 50-50 shot, for *STATIONARY* shots. Something in motion, like that duck (hang on a sec... found it! http://classic.wunderground.com/wximage/Clabo/857 ), and all bets are off, because it's not just a matter of holding it still, but tracking the critter *in motion*. :D
But yeah, patience, patience, patience. And trial'n'error. *LOTS* of error.
LOL!!! You are too funny, Duane!! ;-)
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