{"id":12211,"date":"2013-02-05T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=12211"},"modified":"2013-02-05T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:22:09","slug":"short-eared-owl-taking-off-in-low-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/short-eared-owl-taking-off-in-low-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared Owl Taking Off In Low Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

This male Short-eared Owl was taking off from the sagebrush plains of Montana’s Centennial Valley.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/1600. f\/5.6. ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0I got three shots in the sequence that I liked well enough to keep.\u00a0 At lift-off he was heading mostly in my direction.\u00a0 I was shooting from my pickup and the vehicle didn’t intimidate him in the least.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/2000. f\/5.6. ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Almost immediately he began to veer off to my left…<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/1600. f\/5.6. ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and then gave me a side view as he flew off to hunt voles for his family (female and two chicks).<\/p>\n

I’ve never posted this sequence before because the very low light forced me to shoot at ISO 800 which is really pushing it for my Canon 7D\u00a0so there’s some resulting noise in the images.\u00a0 I don’t like to use noise reduction but I’ve applied it to the backgrounds only for this presentation.<\/p>\n

Like I said in my last post, every image has strengths and weaknesses and the low light I was dealing with (especially for flight shots) forced me into some compromises for these images.\u00a0 They may not be perfect but I’m still happy to have them.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This male Short-eared Owl was taking off from the sagebrush plains of Montana’s Centennial Valley.   \u00a01\/1600. f\/5.6. ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in \u00a0I got three shots in the sequence that I liked well enough to keep.\u00a0 At lift-off he was heading mostly in my direction.\u00a0 I was shooting from my pickup and the vehicle didn’t intimidate him in the least.     \u00a01\/2000. f\/5.6. ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in \u00a0Almost immediately he began to veer off to my left…     \u00a01\/1600. f\/5.6. ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in and then gave me a side view as he flew off to hunt voles for his family (female and two chicks). I’ve never posted this sequence before because the very low light forced me to shoot at ISO 800 which is really pushing it for my Canon 7D\u00a0so there’s some resulting noise in the images.\u00a0 I don’t like to use noise reduction but I’ve applied it to the backgrounds only for this presentation. Like I said in my last post, every image has strengths and weaknesses and the low light I was dealing with (especially for flight shots) forced me into some compromises for these images.\u00a0 They may not be perfect but I’m still happy to have them. Ron<\/p>\n

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