\u00a01\/2500, f\/5.6, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThis is an image of the bird before it took off.\u00a0 It’s full frame (not cropped) to show you what I was working with.\u00a0 The image was taken with my tc (teleconverter) attached to my lens to give me as much magnification as possible but the bird is still much too small in the frame for good detail.\u00a0 My only hope was takeoff and flight shots if the bird lifted off (opened wings make the bird much larger in the frame).<\/p>\n
I had to make a quick decision about leaving the\u00a0tc on or taking it off for the potential liftoff.\u00a0\u00a0I’m at a distance here that is marginal for the tc at liftoff because when they\u00a0raise\u00a0those very long\u00a0wings it’s easy to\u00a0clip wings and other body parts while the bird’s in flight.\u00a0 I chose to remove the tc to give me a\u00a0better chance of not clipping anything and it worked because most of those 22 images in the burst weren’t clipped (although I did have to add canvas for composition to two of these images).<\/p>\n
In hindsight, did I make the right decision about removing the tc?\u00a0 I don’t think so.\u00a0 Yes, I did get almost two dozen images with nothing clipped but even in flight the bird was still too small in the frame for really good detail.\u00a0 Most of these flight shots were cropped about 50%.\u00a0 I think I’d prefer to have one or two frame filling images with nothing clipped (the larger the bird is in the frame, especially in flight, the more difficult it is to avoid clipping) than all these images with the bird fairly small in the frame and showing\u00a0less detail.<\/p>\n
But then I might have clipped the bird in ALL the shots if I’d left the tc on.<\/p>\n
Conundrum unresolved…<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
Note: I may be unable to respond much\u00a0to comments for the next couple of days but I’ll be reading any that\u00a0might be made and I’ll catch up on responses when I can.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sunday morning we visited Utah’s west desert to see what we could turn up out there.\u00a0 We found a\u00a0pair of American Kestrels, a few Swainson’s Hawks, one Ferruginous Hawk, several Turkey Vultures\u00a0apparently feeding on\u00a0a dead calf\u00a0and four Red-tailed Hawks.\u00a0 But most were difficult to approach, in bad light or on ugly perches. Note: Some of this post may be of interest only to photographers.\u00a0 I apologize in advance\u00a0to those of you interested more in the results of bird photography than in the process… \u00a01\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4,\u00a0natural light, not baited, set up or called in \u00a0But we did find the nesting pair of red-tails that I’ve posted about previously.\u00a0 This bird was perched up a canyon near the nest where its mate was incubating\u00a0 eggs.\u00a0 I\u00a0caught the hawk at lift-off… \u00a01\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, natural light, not baited, set up or called in \u00a0and immediately after… \u00a01\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, natural light, not baited, set up or called in and I was able to keep the bird in focus for a long burst of 22 images as it flew to my left.\u00a0 The problem was that it had been perched above me on a hill so when it took off it mostly glided with its wings straight\u00a0out and\u00a0shaded underneath so many of those shots\u00a0aren’t particularly interesting. \u00a01\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, natural light, not baited, set up or called in This was the last image with any light under the wings….<\/p>\n
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