{"id":106885,"date":"2022-01-31T05:32:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=106885"},"modified":"2022-01-31T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:01:13","slug":"immature-bald-eagle-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/immature-bald-eagle-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature Bald Eagle In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

A grab shot. But thanks to my fast shutter speed things still worked out pretty well.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Four days ago this immature Bald Eagle gave me an unexpected fly-by that I was unprepared for.<\/p>\n

When shooting from my pickup window I rest my long and heavy lens on my handy-dandy pool noodle<\/a><\/span><\/span> for stability. Typically I quickly raise or lower my window to get an appropriate shooting angle on my subject. But all the electronics in my pickup, including my windows, automatically shut down a few minutes (maybe 10 minutes?) after I turn my key to off so when this eagle showed up my window was “dead”. And I didn’t have time to turn the key again before the eagle would be gone..<\/span><\/p>\n

So all I could do was shoot completely hand-held with no lens stability provided by my window-mounted noodle, which for me is a recipe for soft photos (and cut off body parts I might add.) The only thing that saved my bacon was my typical, unusually fast shutter speed,1\/5000 in this instance, that prevented lens shake from being a significant problem.<\/p>\n

Because of the eagle’s wing position I liked this shot from the short burst best but I wondered what was making the bottom of ‘his’ beak look a little fuzzy or misshapen. My first thought was that it might be ice or snow on his lower mandible but it turned out to be…<\/p>\n

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a feather. A small down feather to be more precise. It doesn’t take much to make a bird look a little weird.<\/p>\n

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When my window goes “dead” I don’t always have the SS to give me sharp shots so it’s ruined more potentially good photos than I care to think about. Next time I visit my Ford dealer it’s my intention to ask them if the electronics can be tweaked to give me more time (20 minutes perhaps) before they shut down.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t hurt to ask.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A grab shot. But thanks to my fast shutter speed things still worked out pretty well.<\/p>\n

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