{"id":26739,"date":"2014-09-23T06:03:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=26739"},"modified":"2014-09-23T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T19:01:02","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-the-power-and-grace-of-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/red-tailed-hawk-the-power-and-grace-of-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk – The Power And Grace Of Take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird photography isn’t easy and the resulting images are often missing an essential element (or two, or more…)\u00a0but sometimes I like those shots anyway.\u00a0 Case in point:<\/p>\n

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

\u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I encountered this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk perched in a Russian Olive tree in a pasture\u00a0near Farmington bay.\u00a0 I took some perched shots then removed my teleconverter and hoped for a good angle on possible take-off.\u00a0 If it happened it looked like it would be against\u00a0a plain blue sky background but…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

serendipitously a puffy white cloud had moved behind the bird just in time for launch.\u00a0 The result looks a little like an artificially added vignette but it isn’t.\u00a0 I should be happy that one thing went right (and I am)\u00a0but I’d have preferred a head turn from the bird.\u00a0 Normally I wouldn’t post images without a better head turn and more light in the eye but I was so taken by the athletic posture of the take-off that I decided to make an exception.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Excuse me, I misspoke – two<\/em> exceptions.\u00a0 This is the next frame in the burst and I like the contrast in poses between the two images.\u00a0\u00a0I was able to get 12 more sharp shots of this hawk (with nothing clipped) right after it took off\u00a0but the darned bird didn’t alter the angle of its head one iota in any of them.<\/p>\n

Next time maybe the bird will glance my way…<\/p>\n

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

Bird photography isn’t easy and the resulting images are often missing an essential element (or two, or more…) but sometimes I like those shots anyway. Case in point:<\/p>\n

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