{"id":110633,"date":"2022-05-04T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=110633"},"modified":"2022-05-04T05:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:05:37","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-in-flight-soon-after-takeoff-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/red-tailed-hawk-in-flight-soon-after-takeoff-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk In Flight Soon After Takeoff – Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making the best I can out of some bad luck.<\/p>\n

Three days ago I posted a single photo<\/a><\/span><\/span> of an immature Red-tailed Hawk taken soon after takeoff and said that I’d probably be posting more photos of ‘him’ in the future. I mentioned that I had been unlucky with wing positions that either hid his face or cast shadows on his face but a brief review of the photos suggested that several of them were good enough to be posted, perhaps as a series.<\/p>\n

I was wrong.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Only one of my other photos of him appealed to me and this is it. It was taken three images in the burst earlier than the photo I posted three days ago.<\/p>\n

I like his flight posture, we have a clear view of his unshaded face, he’s plenty sharp enough and the sagebrush background appeals to me. The exposure on his near-whites and shaded right wing was a difficult one but a little work with the lights and darks during processing helped to mitigate most of those issues.<\/p>\n

I was disappointed that so many of my photos of the young hawk were unusable but sometimes that happens when the timing of my shutter matches that of the bird’s wingbeats and repeatedly catches the wings in an undesirable position.<\/p>\n

With bird photography, stuff like that comes with the territory.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – Some readers may be curious about what kind of wing positions and resulting shadows I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

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Here’s an example, taken four photos in the burst prior to the first photo above. I’ve centered the bird in the composition so that we can at least see the rock he took off from.<\/p>\n

His head’s in there somewhere.<\/p>\n

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And here’s proof. I lightened some of the shadows a little to make his head and eye slightly easier to see.<\/p>\n

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Making the best I can out of some bad luck. (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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