Red-tailed Hawk

Gallery: AvianPosted February 24, 2015583 views12 comments

A hawk feasting on a rabbit in the fens of Boston. This fellow has no fear of humans which allowed me to take this shot at 70mm. I cloned a building in the background.

5D3, EF 70-200 F/4 IS

1/180s, F/8, ISO 100

Cheers,

Hisham.

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on February 24, 2015 at 5:37 PM

Great image!! I like your POV, as well as the sharpness and detail. Do wish for a bit more detail in the highlights, but that is just a minor item. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on February 24, 2015 at 6:16 PM

I'm amazed at how close you got for this shot... incredible biological image

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on February 24, 2015 at 9:05 PM

Great low perspective on this guy. Gory, but a great behavioral shot.

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Comment posted by Scott Frye on February 24, 2015 at 10:09 PM

Woot -- outstanding

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on February 25, 2015 at 10:19 AM

It's amazing that you were able to get that close. Great low POV.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on February 25, 2015 at 3:00 PM

Congrats on getting so close. Very intimate feel as a result. Very strong image.

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Comment posted by David Bogener on February 25, 2015 at 4:44 PM

Outstanding behavioral image. The low angle and great DOF make this a very unique image. Great work.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on February 25, 2015 at 9:02 PM

That is a really amazing image Hisham, great job getting close and the short lens yields such a different perspective. As far as techs I would have shot it at least at iso 400 to gain more shutter speed, your image looks plenty sharp but that camera has no noise at iso 400 so I wouldn't have taken the chance at a low shutter speed of not getting it sharp.

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Comment posted by Hisham Atallah on February 26, 2015 at 9:09 AM

Thanks all for commenting. Nate, in retrospect I agree with you. I'm experimenting with having the ISO on auto. The camera seems to always opt for the lowest ISO possible. I wish The 5D3 had a mode which allows one to choose the aperture AND shutter speed with the camera picking the ISO. While this is possible is M mode, there's no way to apply exposure compensation there. I'm really baffled that Canon doesn't update the software to allow this. Maybe it's there way of pushing people to upgrade their equipment which might work in my case.

Cheers,

Hisham.

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Comment posted by John Neukirch on February 26, 2015 at 1:18 PM

A killer shot "literally and figuratively". Absolutely love the low POV and the action. An image to be proud of without a doubt.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on February 26, 2015 at 1:26 PM

The POV showing the surroundings makes it look like a wide-angle shot, which adds enormously