Birds hopeless situation right place wrong time wrong weather wrong gear red kite with sony 70-200 f4 please read excuses first

[spudhead]

Ok so while driving to Southampton in June to board a cruise ship we began to drive into black storm clouds and areas of flat white low cloud. I spotted a red kite that had been forced down below the black clouds, I heard the wife say dont even think of stopping we are going to be late! well I have never seen a red kite so I pulled over saying 5 minutes only, grabbed the camera a9 ok lens zeiss 24-70mm f4 or 70-200 f4, well to hell with it 70-200 it is. Well 200mm is not much reach add to that flat white background and I am in trouble! so here are 2 average shots quite flat so sorry for that

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS (SEL70200G)
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS (SEL70200G)
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 800

 

[mapleleaf56]

Wow .. the are excellent captures Gary….
Hope the wife didn’t give you to much grief..

 

[spudhead]

Wow .. the are excellent captures Gary….
Hope the wife didn’t give you to much grief..

well she promised not to talk to during the cruise but that never happened

 

[mapleleaf56]

well she promised not to talk to during the cruise but that never happened

I hate it when people don’t keep their promises

 

[Deleted Member 5003]

Nice images Gary,
wouldn't worry so much about the white skies.....its the UK and white patchy skies are a blessing....
could have been worse if you had hit the black patches,

Nevertheless the images are sharp enough given the conditions and lens choices you had available to you..........

 

[spudhead]

Nice images Gary,
wouldn't worry so much about the white skies.....its the UK and white patchy skies are a blessing....
could have been worse if you had hit the black patches,

Nevertheless the images are sharp enough given the conditions and lens choices you had available to you..........

Thanks for looking

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Standard UK sky. Lovely pics.

 

[spudhead]

Standard UK sky. Lovely pics.

if only anyway thanks Kev

 

[AlphaWorld]

You wasted a perfectly good set of excuses! These shots need no excuses!

 

[spudhead]

You wasted a perfectly good set of excuses! These shots need no excuses!

thanks for looking and comments

 

[Slug]

Nothing wrong with those!

 

[Sdawes]

Nothing wrong with them mate

 

[Ralph]

Wonderful images.

 

[iain clyne]

White sky or not they are great images of a Red Kite.