Red Tailed Hawk

Gallery: AvianPosted January 4, 2011110 views16 comments

Red Tailed Hawk in the first light of the morning. Shot from car window stretched out across the front seat to get to the passenger side - very uncomfortable , but worth the effort.

Canon 7D
600 MM
1/200 @ f 5.6
ISO 400
Manual Exp., Spot Metered

Comments and critiques greatly appreciated

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by Terry Sohl on January 4, 2011 at 7:52 PM

Beautiful Randy! That warm morning light is just fantastic, as is the pose and head turn of the bird.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on January 4, 2011 at 7:52 PM

Killer lighting with a great perch and pleasing background. Well done

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 4, 2011 at 7:56 PM

This is great Randy! Great warm light :) I also like the fact that you do not have any background or foreground distractions, a simple branch, nice. I posted a Bald Eagle image on Jan 01, 2011, and being in a rain forest it is hard to get a good background.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on January 4, 2011 at 7:57 PM

Beautiful light; fine composition; nice image quality.

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on January 4, 2011 at 8:03 PM

Ditto Richard's succinct comments.

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Comment posted by wade pettitt on January 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM

Wow amazing light and great comp. Well done!!!

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Comment posted by Michael Lotito on January 4, 2011 at 8:30 PM

Beautiful lighting, subject and composition.

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on January 4, 2011 at 8:38 PM

Beautiful Randy. Light is great and well captured. Great perch and comp. Aren't you enjoying the "hawk on every corner thing" going on in Houston right now?

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on January 4, 2011 at 9:33 PM

Sweet bird Randy. We just don't see many of these here in my part of FL. Nice light, tack sharp, and good comp. Well done.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM

Gorgeous light, Randy, and excellent detail.

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Comment posted by Michael Twaddell on January 5, 2011 at 1:13 AM

Beautiful image!

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Comment posted by Graham Brown on January 5, 2011 at 6:50 AM

A beautiful image. What a difference the light makes. Graham

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Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on January 5, 2011 at 10:04 AM

excellent, Randy. light and comp are both great. if you can do so safely, (be sure the brake is set!) try getting all the way over into the other seat--much easier to handle the big lens if you're not contorted!

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on January 5, 2011 at 3:21 PM

Very cool, the light and look from the Red Tail are right on, well done.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on January 5, 2011 at 11:08 PM

Lovely light and comp Randy - well worth the effort.

cheers
Rob

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Comment posted by Geoffrey Baker on January 6, 2011 at 1:39 PM

A lovely image with great light.
Well done.

Geoff.

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