Brahminy Kite - Haliaster indus
These are common kite in India once you get out of the big city. Kites sore, hardly flapping their wings and taking advantage of every thermal and breeze. This might be th best flight picture I have ever taken of a raptor - the definition on the feathers seeme quite nice - somehow (accident !) the sun has caught the bird the right way.
On the photography side I was at a small village called the Kokare Bellur which translates as the egret village. The idea was to try and practice taking pictures of birds in flight (there were hundreds !). The rule I was given was to switch on all of the focus points, dial up the exposure (putting the stops on 2 which seems counter intuitive but the sky confuses the camera so you have to increase exposure to get the detail on the bird), change the setting on the lense to mode 2 for stabilisation (takes out panning shake) and set the mode to "servo" which keeps the birds in focus as you pan with it. Multi shot is a good option for faster moving birds.
The village was packed with ibis, storks, pelicans, kites - I spent a good hour just practicing flight shots like this of a painted stork :-
I caught a picture of a roosting Brahminy Kite (above) later on.
Brahminy Kite; Haliaster indus
Kokare Bellur, near Bangalore
25 May 2012
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