Black Crowned Night Heron - In Flight

[Mashiur Rahman]

This is my first experience of photographing a bird in-flight. The image is blurry.
I will request your suggestion for improvement.

EXIF:-
Body:- Canon 600D
Lens:- EF70-200 F/4 L IS USM
Mode:- Program AE
Focal Length:- 200mm
Av:-4
TV/SS:- 1/320
ISO:- 200
Flash:- Off
AF Mode:- One-Shot AF
PP:-
1. Image re-sized
2. Cropped at the top.
3. Had commit-ed the same mistake here with white balance. PP done to rectify the same.

Thanks,

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice flight pose captured. Good eye contact. The reflection looks nice. For birds in flight you need a high shutter speed of atleast 1/1000, so you could have used a higher ISO like 400 or 500 to freeze the action. Also using all point focus helps. An off-centered composition with more space on the left would be good. Thanks for sharing.

[Dr Ajay Kumar Singh]

Nice image. I think overall image is little soft but the blurring of wings looks fine and gives a feel of movement. I agree with mirdul about all the parameters for freezing the action. Other than that you can try panning method, in that case shutter speed of 1/300-1/400 will work. AF should be kept at AI-Servo to lock the focus while panning. If you are tracking a subject with more objects in the frame then center point focus will be better. Taking multi shot option will be nice. This is a good article..

http://mikeatkinson.net/Tutorial-9-Photographing-Birds-in-Flight.htm

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice creative image. I have not seen earlier an image of Night Heron in flight together with its reflection captured. Where exactly you made it ? Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice... the reflection looks good.

TFS
Roopak