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<\/p>\nOne of the advantages of shooting in early morning light.<\/p>\n
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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon F5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Early yesterday morning, when this immature Red-tailed Hawk took off from an elevated rocky outcrop, I didn’t have the best of luck with wing positions in many of my photos of him. I got quite a few flight shots with no clipped or cut off body parts but in many of them his left wing was casting a shadow on his face or hiding his face completely from view. This is one of my photos where that wasn’t a problem.<\/p>\n Because his perch was elevated he’s losing elevation as he picks up speed. I like the eye contact, his hanging feet and legs, the sagebrush in the background and my exposure on the hawk (even though the shadow on his right wing doesn’t have a lot of detail.). If the photo had been taken later in the morning when the light was harsher the near-whites of his left wing and underparts would almost certainly have been overexposed. As it was I had to tone those whites down slightly during processing.<\/p>\n I only had time yesterday to process this single image but I’ll probably post more photos of him in the fairly near future.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the advantages of shooting in early morning light.<\/p>\n