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\"Pan<\/a>
Pan blur image of a male Bar-tailed godwit in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Being confronted by a massed flock of flying shorebirds can be an overwhelming sensory overload. Unlike penguins and shags, the overload is not olfactory, only visual and auditory. Photographically, the challenge is to try and isolate a subject or group of subjects from the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Pan<\/a>
Pan blur of a female godwit against the flock
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Using a slow shutter speed to pan blur an individual or group of birds can help achieve some isolation. As always this is a high risk\/low reward strategy that wears out the X key and fills the trash can while delivering the occasional nugget.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Flock<\/a>
Flock of godwits in flight – pan blur accentuates wing tip movement and smears the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Pan blurs work best when there is a background with some detail that can be smeared by the slow shutter thus generating a sense of movement. The challenge with the P\u016bkorokoro\/Miranda migrants is that they are flying overhead so sky is the often the only background.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Flock<\/a>
Flock of godwits in flight against a blue sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Despite this I find it worth exploring slow shutter options to try and achieve something different from the sharp in flight images on offer. The things that impress me are the huge flocks with the sound of the wind through their wings so it is nice to try and capture a sense of dynamism in the images.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Slow<\/a>
Slow shutter image of godwits in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

With my Nikon Z9 and Z8 I find it quick and easy to switch between high and slow shutter captures using the recall settings function<\/a>. This lets me switch modes during the pass of a single bird by simply tapping one button near the shutter and continuing to track the sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos with Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z 800mm f6.3 VR S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Bar-tailed Gowits\/Kuaka arrive in our spring after a non-stop flight of 12000km over 8 days from Alaska, the longest recorded non-stop flight for a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "birds"","block_context":{"text":"birds","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/category\/birds"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bar-tailed Godwits in early morning light.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bar-tailedGodwits-DSC_5152-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bar-tailedGodwits-DSC_5152-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bar-tailedGodwits-DSC_5152-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bar-tailedGodwits-DSC_5152-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":675,"url":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/675","url_meta":{"origin":19808,"position":5},"title":"Miranda godwits","author":"tony","date":"December 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Stopped in at Miranda on the way back from Auckland this morning. 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