cml wrote:Great pics, I think especially nr 4 is awesome. You should try making a crop of the green parrot there, his pose is great =).
What shutter speed are you using? I think you can get sharper wings if you go to about 1/1000 or there abouts

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Thanks

I will look if I've still got the original and if it's not way too grainy close up, and if that's the case I'll definitely make a crop of him

I like his pose too, and it's the only good flight shot I've got of Nicko.
Oh, haha, I am aware, but they would also be completely black (or really grainy with higher ISO)

I'm not a huge fan of using the camera flash, not that I think the birds would mind, but I often prefer natural lightning! ...and there's also the fact that my walls are really ugly in flash photos
I don't exactly mind motion blurry wings now and then either, I like to think it makes the shots more alive, I mean, they ARE reeeally fast, and a little motion blur just amplifies that ^_^