{"id":26417,"date":"2014-09-05T06:28:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T12:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=26417"},"modified":"2014-09-05T06:28:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T12:28:26","slug":"intermediate-morph-swainsons-hawk-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/intermediate-morph-swainsons-hawk-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Morph Swainson’s Hawk In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent yesterday morning cruising the back roads of Utah’s west desert with the primary goal of finding and photographing raptors.\u00a0 I found a fair number\u00a0of Red-tailed, Swainson’s and even Ferruginous Hawks but for a variety of reasons decent images of them were\u00a0largely elusive.<\/p>\n

Most of the birds were perched on power poles and the biggest problem with getting\u00a0acceptable flight shots was those blasted wires!\u00a0 I’ll include one\u00a0image to show you what I mean.<\/p>\n

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\"swainson's<\/a><\/p>\n

1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When this intermediate morph Swainson’s Hawk took off from the pole I was able to get 13 flight shots with nothing clipped and most of them were sharp.\u00a0 But as the hawk flew it mostly followed the power line and there was wire in front of the bird in most of those shots.<\/p>\n

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\"swainson's<\/a><\/p>\n

1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Only two of the sharp photos had no wire in front of the bird and this is one of them.\u00a0 I like it fairly well but the underside of the hawk is mostly shaded.<\/p>\n

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\"swainson's<\/p>\n

1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, wire removed from frame corner, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Because of better light on the wings and a more dynamic flight posture this is my favorite from the sequence, though I do wish there’d been some fluffy white\u00a0clouds in the sky to make the background a little more interesting.<\/p>\n

Flight shots of birds will always be a challenge because there’s so many\u00a0unpredictable and uncontrollable\u00a0elements involved.\u00a0 All we can do is keep on trying – after all, that’s half the fun (and a big part of the frustration).<\/p>\n

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

I spent yesterday morning cruising the back roads of Utah’s west desert with the primary goal of finding and photographing raptors. <\/p>\n

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