1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc<\/em><\/p>\nThis old cedar stump is a favorite perch of Red-tailed Hawks at the base of Utah’s Stansbury\u00a0Mountains in the\u00a0west desert.\u00a0 It’s usually a frustrating situation for me though because I can’t access a proper position to get the sun behind me and for most of the day the sidelight is just too harsh for\u00a0an exposure that works well.\u00a0 But on this one morning the hawk was on the stump just as the sun came over the Oquirrh Mountains to the east so the light was soft and warm enough to make an exposure that I liked and\u00a0I thought\u00a0the shaded upper background worked well with the light on the bird’s head.<\/p>\n
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Strongly directional light can be\u00a0a blessing or a curse and all too often it’s the latter.\u00a0 It makes proper exposure a challenge\u00a0because\u00a0it’s very easy to blow the highlights and\/or have shadows so deep\u00a0that there’s no detail there at all.\u00a0 But\u00a0when things work out the effect can be\u00a0appealing and\u00a0dramatic.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc This old cedar stump is a favorite perch of Red-tailed Hawks at the base of Utah’s Stansbury\u00a0Mountains in the\u00a0west desert.\u00a0 It’s usually a frustrating situation for me though because I can’t access a proper position to get the sun behind me and for most of the day the sidelight is just too harsh for\u00a0an exposure that works well.\u00a0 But on this one morning the hawk was on the stump just as the sun came over the Oquirrh Mountains to the east so the light was soft and warm enough to make an exposure that I liked and\u00a0I thought\u00a0the shaded upper background worked well with the light on the bird’s head. Ron\u00a0 Ron\u00a0<\/p>\n
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