Whenever I see an opportunity to photograph a bird in flight where I'm looking down on it, I take it. We are so used to looking up at birds and seeing their underside that an elevated vantage point like I had with this northern cape gannet at Cape St. Mary's in Newfoundland is unique and produces compelling images. This image is uncropped. I used a 500mm Canon telephoto plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. I used all 61 focus points in the camera to make sure the autofocus accurately tracked the bird's motion, and this technique worked well because the background was basically monochromatically blue. That means that nothing in the background fooled the AF mechanism into losing focus on the subject. My settings were 1/3200, f/11, 1600 ISO.
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