{"id":46908,"date":"2017-03-24T05:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=46908"},"modified":"2017-03-24T05:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:45:46","slug":"short-eared-owl-in-very-low-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/short-eared-owl-in-very-low-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared Owl In Very Low Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

I may have never photographed a Short-eared Owl in light more dim than this so I’m surprised\u00a0to have\u00a0ended up liking these photos very much.<\/p>\n

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1\/400, f\/9, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u00a0found this male Short-eared Owl hunting from a large wooden post on June 2, 2016. Technically we were in Idaho but it was only about a mile from the Montana border.<\/p>\n

It was just after dawn with a heavy overcast so as you can see from my image techs\u00a0the light was abysmal. I deliberately underexposed this shot to get just a bit more shutter speed.<\/p>\n

He was calm and accepting of my presence, probably at least in part\u00a0because of the very low light, and he spent most of his time scanning the nearby grasses and brush for prey. I love the detail here, including but not\u00a0limited to\u00a0the “fringing” on the feathers behind the tip of the right wing. That fringing is largely responsible for the “silent flight” of owls.<\/p>\n

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1\/640, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Eventually he flew down and pounced on a nearby brush pile – obviously after prey he’d seen but he came up empty. He stayed here for a while and then flew a few feet further away and continued to hunt. At that point I left him in pursuit of better light and other birds.<\/p>\n

While I was taking these shots I remember thinking I’d probably delete them all because of the extremely poor light. I couldn’t have been more wrong.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I may have never photographed a Short-eared Owl in light more dim than this so I’m surprised to have ended up liking these photos very much.<\/p>\n

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