I think Gizzard Shad looks like that’s it
Great work
Do you use a pretty fancy works to capture that sort of photo?
Truly fascinating
Yes. If you click on the photo in post 59, it brings up the photo as posted in Flickr. Once in Flickr scroll down below the photo to see the equipment I used. The camera is a Canon 5D Mark IV, a 30 megapixel camera. The main telephoto lens is a Canon 500mm f/4L IS (Image Stabilized) II USM. The II stands for the second version of this lens meaning that it is a pound and a half lighter than the previous Canon 500mm f/4L lens. The 1.4x III is a teleconverter that magnifies the 500mm focal length by 1.4 making the lens combination 700mm rather than 500mm. The higher the mm, the more the image is enlarged on the camera sensor.
Finally, the 30 megapixel camera means that I can crop the image captured by the camera significantly while still maintaining good resolution. The image posted in post 59 is only 12 percent of the whole image the camera captured. You can click on the image in Flickr and it blows the image up further so that you can see more detail.
The camera, lens, and teleconverter weigh less than 10 pounds, meaning that I often handhold the combination to get photos of flying birds. As the information below the image in Flickr says, my shutter speed was 1/1600th of a second, fast enough to stop wing motion. My ISO (a light setting) was 200, which means there should be little photographic noise in the photo. High ISO (i.e., ISO in the thousands) can result in grainy and "noisy" photos.
I also used Photoshop to fine tune the photo adjusting contrast and appearance slightly to better show the subject.
Bird photography is a good hobby for me.