{"id":4459,"date":"2012-02-24T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2012-02-24T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:00:41","slug":"stansbury-mountain-red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/stansbury-mountain-red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Stansbury Mountain Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to photograph raptors (or most any bird, really) in this kind of\u00a0light when I think I can get away with it.\u00a0 When I first started photographing birds I always<\/em>\u00a0 made an effort to get the light source directly\u00a0behind me and now I shudder to think of the interesting light I sometimes missed, especially since what I ended up with was often something rather mundane.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0recently posted<\/a> a somewhat similar\u00a0image of a red-tail but\u00a0the poses and settings in the two photos\u00a0are\u00a0quite different from each other.<\/p>\n

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\"red-tailed-hawk-8399\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc<\/em><\/p>\n

I found this hawk perched in dappled, directional light\u00a0a few months ago.\u00a0 It was near the bottom of a canyon in\u00a0the Stansbury Mountains of\u00a0Utah\u00a0so I was looking slightly down on the\u00a0bird –\u00a0 a perspective I appreciate if the angle isn’t too steep.\u00a0 I like the haughty pose – which was actually a reaction to another red-tail flying toward this bird.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

I like to photograph raptors (or most any bird, really) in this kind of\u00a0light when I think I can get away with it.\u00a0 When I first started photographing birds I always\u00a0 made an effort to get the light source directly\u00a0behind me and now I shudder to think of the interesting light I sometimes missed, especially since what I ended up with was often something rather mundane. I\u00a0recently posted a somewhat similar\u00a0image of a red-tail but\u00a0the poses and settings in the two photos\u00a0are\u00a0quite different from each other.   1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc I found this hawk perched in dappled, directional light\u00a0a few months ago.\u00a0 It was near the bottom of a canyon in\u00a0the Stansbury Mountains of\u00a0Utah\u00a0so I was looking slightly down on the\u00a0bird –\u00a0 a perspective I appreciate if the angle isn’t too steep.\u00a0 I like the haughty pose – which was actually a reaction to another red-tail flying toward this bird.\u00a0 Ron<\/p>\n

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