| Re: Birds flying. How to take a good shot.
Julie, I use the 350D and the settings I use for in flight shots are as follows
Put the camera on AV mode. Set the Aperture value to F8 ISO value 400 if it's bright, 800 if it's dull and set the Auto focus mode to A1 Servo, set the camera to continuos shooting mode.
Get the bird in focus by pressing the shutter button halfway down, once in focus just hold the shutter button down and follow the birds flight as smoothly as you can.
No doubt others will give you different advice, but these settings work for me. I must admit it's not a foolproof method and you will get many shots that are no good but eventually with practice you will get some good ones.
Roger |