Few from Cotswolds Falconry

[aerobandit]

I wanted to test my 5d mkII autofocus on these bautiful birds.

p.s.
do they look underexposed or is it my monitor at work? they looked fine when I edited them at home. cheers.

 

[ecniv]

Looks like your AF works fine

Nice n crisp.

The last looks over exposed (works monitor) but the rest seem ok.

The owl looks a bit lost with the background but the rest are a-ok

 

[aerobandit]

Looks like your AF works fine

Nice n crisp.

The last looks over exposed (works monitor) but the rest seem ok.

The owl looks a bit lost with the background but the rest are a-ok

thanks. I'm glad its the monitor

 

[sjh2008]

All pics are very good, no2 being my favourite.
As a fellow 5d2 owner, just curious what settings you were using for BIF.

 

[aerobandit]

All pics are very good, no2 being my favourite.
As a fellow 5d2 owner, just curious what settings you were using for BIF.

cheers Simon. I'm surprised that exif is not intact
anyway. after checking lighting conditions and making sure that my shutter speed won't go below 1/800 on f/6.3, I've used Av mode with aperture f/6.3, iso 400, spot metering and AF servo with center AF point plus assist.
Usually I'm shooting on Tv mode with shutter speed set on 1/800 or 1/1000 but sometimes my aperture drops below f/6.3 and below that my old 70-210mm USM is very soft, hence Av mode yesterday. In case of any questions there is a genius here on TP - Tdodd

I'm glad you like #2. it was the most difficult photo to take as the bird was flying like thousand miles per hour, trying to catch a chicken swung by a guy training it. it really stretched the AF of my 5d mkII (and my panning technique) to the maximum