{"id":116805,"date":"2022-08-18T05:37:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=116805"},"modified":"2022-08-18T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:19:52","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-in-flight-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/18\/red-tailed-hawk-in-flight-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once in a great while pretty much everything goes right for flight shots after a raptor takes off. This was one of those very rare times.<\/p>\n

I’ve been posting quite a few Red-tailed Hawk photos in the last few weeks but I can only post what I shoot and three days ago it was red-tails galore. Over the course of about three hours I saw about 30 different red-tails, most of them juveniles with their siblings, and several of them were actually cooperative.<\/p>\n

This one couldn’t have been more so.<\/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

Based on perceived size and tarsi thickness I’m going to refer to ‘her’ as a female. She was at just the right distance for flight shots (close enough for good detail and far enough away to make it easier to keep her in frame while she was in flight), her direction of takeoff and flight couldn’t have been better, I had good light on her and I like the background. A lot.<\/p>\n

The white metal ranch gate she took off from was a bit garish but I won’t whine about that.<\/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

Fourteen shots in the burst later I still had her in frame and in focus. For this series of two flight shots I chose to include one with her wings up and…<\/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

another with her wings down.<\/p>\n

She kept her eye on me in flight so I had a great head turn for the entire series before she eventually banked away from me and flew off toward the mountains. It’s also nice to get some green in my backgrounds. This time of year, unless I’m up in the mountains, that almost never happens.<\/span><\/p>\n

I got over 40 sharp flight shots of her with no body parts clipped or cut off. The only thing I can complain about is that one of the potentially best photos wasn’t sharp enough.<\/p>\n

And that’s the fault of the photographer, not the bird. From my perspective she did everything right.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Once in a great while pretty much everything goes right for flight shots after a raptor takes off. This was one of those very rare times. (three photos)<\/p>\n

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