{"id":117279,"date":"2022-08-24T05:31:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=117279"},"modified":"2022-08-24T07:35:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:35:42","slug":"a-red-tailed-hawk-flight-shot-i-like-unusually-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/24\/a-red-tailed-hawk-flight-shot-i-like-unusually-well\/","title":{"rendered":"A Red-tailed Hawk Flight Shot I Like Unusually Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

For an unusual reason.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, 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

I rarely see Red-tailed Hawks perched on sagebrush but two days ago this juvenile and ‘his’ sibling were both perched on sagebrush when I found them. The other bird was further away and facing away from me so I focused on this one and, like I always do, hoped for takeoff and flight shots.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have to wait long.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, 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

I was a little late pulling the trigger when he took off so I didn’t catch him with his wings up at the launch. I got 21 shots of him in flight (some of them were soft but I didn’t clip any wings) but when I looked at my photos on my camera screen I instantly knew this one would be my favorite, by far. One thing about the photo jumped out at me in a positive way. Can you guess what it was?<\/p>\n

It was his curled and well-separated primaries on both wings. I don’t believe I’ve ever taken a photo of a raptor in flight that had this much curling, of this many primaries (all ten of them), with this much separation – especially when they’re all sharp. I just happened to time the shot right and be at the best shooting angle to the bird so that one wing didn’t hide important parts of the other. I got several other photos of him that had some curling and\/or some separation but none of them were like this one.<\/p>\n

Curling and separation of primaries in my flight shots have always appealed to me and I’m probably a little weird about that.<\/p>\n

But we like what we like.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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For an unusual reason. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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