{"id":25296,"date":"2014-07-26T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=25296"},"modified":"2014-07-23T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:58:44","slug":"landing-red-tailed-hawk-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/landing-red-tailed-hawk-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Landing Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This image goes back into my archives about as far back\u00a0as they go.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was taken on October 1, 2007 – just a few months after\u00a0I\u00a0became serious about my photography.\u00a0\u00a0I was still shooting with my first digital camera, the Canon Rebel XTi which I still have.\u00a0\u00a0It’s an\u00a0entry-level camera and I still remember what the camera salesman\u00a0said when I told him that I was planning on mounting that small camera onto a huge\u00a0Canon 500 mm lens –\u00a0“well,\u00a0it will\u00a0work but don’t you think it’ll look a little silly?”<\/p>\n

Even at that early point in my “career” I knew that a photographer’s financial resources are better invested in great glass that holds its value\u00a0than in cameras that quickly become obsolete.\u00a0 It’s been years since I used the\u00a0XTi but that lens was a great one until I sold it for its new upgrade a few months ago and when I sold it (well-used of course)\u00a0I got as much as I\u00a0paid for it almost 7 years earlier.<\/p>\n

The XTi just gathers dust…<\/p>\n

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\"red-tailed<\/a><\/p>\n

1\/1250, f\/9. ISO 400, Canon Rebel XTi, EF500mm f\/4L IS USM +1.4 tc. not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This shot isn’t great technically but given my primitive skills at the time I was pleased with the results.\u00a0 What I like best about it is that the hawk is landing rather than taking off.\u00a0 Compared to landing shots,\u00a0take-off shots are relatively easy because you generally don’t know where they’re going to land.\u00a0 But this bird regularly hunted from this perch and returned to it so I prefocused on the branch and let it rip with the\u00a0burst rate of the XTi that makes flowing molasses\u00a0seem like a speed demon.<\/p>\n

Luckily one of those few shots caught the hawk as it was reaching for the branch.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

Note: I’m off on another jaunt to Montana – duration unknown.\u00a0 I’ve scheduled posts in my absence but I’ll be without access to a computer so I won’t be responding to any comments, though I do receive your comments on my phone when I have a signal and I always enjoy them.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Wish me luck with the smoke from the fires in Washington, Oregon and Idaho – the prevailing wind direction is not helpful…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image goes back into my archives about as far back as they go. It was taken on October 1, 2007 – just a few months after I became serious about my photography. I was still shooting with my first digital camera, the Canon Rebel XTi which I still have. It’s an entry-level camera and I still remember what the camera salesman said when I told him that I was planning on mounting that small camera onto a huge Canon 500 mm lens – “well, it will work but don’t you think it’ll look a little silly?”<\/p>\n

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