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Balcony birding The regular shots Note on BIF Auto Focus for the D5 One of the AF modes on the D5 that I found useful for BIF ( for these parakeets in flight)  is th

Sunday morning birding from my balcony. It was kind of sporadic showers today , more like a cloud burst than the monsoons. The usual alexandrine flock was flying around m

Nikon D5 , 600mm F4 VR FL These guys were making a racket outside my balcony on the wire. Just had to pull out the gear and shoot. Used the Gitzo 1548 tripod along with t

In continuation of exploring some different photography. The not so standard shot of the same “Red Breasted Parakeet” Nikon D5, 105mm F2.8 VR

I went over to my friends place at Andheri, Mumbai where one can see Red Breasted Parakeets ! Looks like these are cage released/ feral but now have adapted to Mumbai. Us

Pegion Parakeet and a plane ! Flying into the sunset

Parakeets at sunset   Fly past   Peregrine in the clouds

All shot on 1/10th shutter speeds Black Kite in ” slow mo ”   And a Parakeet  

The standard shot   The not so standard shot. Gives a sense of speed of what is, one of the fastest birds on the planet.   While tracking the falcon, it chanced

Another of the birdies from my balcony. Alexandrine parakeets with a slow shutter speed. Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 320, 1/15th , F25 , AF-C, d-72, VR

  Today it was way past dusk and very poor light. I heard the familar screech from the wire outside my balcony . Decided to test the high ISO on the D5.  Only o

I limited my full shooting today to just one shutter speed,  1/30th of a second. The idea was to get a nice pan blur of the parakeets from my balcony.   Nikon D

Next time need to go down to 1/30th to get a good pan blur  background Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 370mm,   ISO 160, 1/125th , F6.3 , AF-C, Group AF, VR OFF

Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 1EV under 100, 1/60th , F56.3 , AF-C, Group AF, VR OFF  

The standard shot Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 2500, 1/1250th , F5.6 , AF-C, Group AF The not so standard shots Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm, &nbs

Nikon D800E, 600mm VR + TC17,  ISO 4000, 1/1600th @ F8 , Manual Exposure

Nikon D800E, 600 f4 VR, TC14, ISO 2000, 1/1600 @ F 6.3

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Parakeet flight – Top sides Free ranging Alexandrine Parakeets at Mumbai. Nikon D3,  600mm VR + TC 17 , ISO 2500,  1/1600 @ F7.1  (Manual Exposure )