Landing Sequence of a Speckled Pigeon

Speckled pigeon in flight at Woodbridge Island, Cape Town

During my morning routine of Birds in Flight Photography at Woodbridge Island I was close enough to witness and quickly capture the landing routine of one of the local speckled pigeons on the Otto Du Plessis roadside of the Diep River.

Lightroom Post-Processing
All images processed in Lightroom 8. Converted from RAW to JPG. Lens profile correction. Minor colour correction. Sharpness and noise reduction applied. Due to the low light / higher ISO images I spent more time with post-processing that I would in good light.

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Cape Town Location
Milnerton Lagoon Woodbridge Island, Cape Town. Over the Diep River flowing past the Milnerton Golf Course

Equipment (Birds In Flight / Action Photography)

• Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR camera body
• Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM Lens
• SanDisk Extreme 64GB 120MB/s CF Card

Manual Mode Settings

• Shutter speed: 1/4000s
• Aperture: f/5.6
• Focal length 400mm
• Auto-ISO (ISO 640 - all 5 images)
• Continuous shooting mode (10 fps)
• AI Servo / AF Mode Option (Large / Wide Zone AF / Case 1)
• Lens AF On / No IS / Handheld

Image 1: Landing Sequence of a Speckled Pigeon, Woodbridge Island

Image 2: Landing Sequence of a Speckled Pigeon, Woodbridge Island

Image 3: Landing Sequence of a Speckled Pigeon, Woodbridge Island

Image 4: Landing Sequence of a Speckled Pigeon, Woodbridge Island

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