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Hmmm, what looks good for breakfast??

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Posted by Tim Mulholland on April 8, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Hmmm, what looks good for breakfast??
We have a couple of red-tail hawks roosting in the woods behind our house. I've not been very luck in terms of photographing them, but improved my technique a bit today. This was taken from about 100 meters away, and represents about 25% of the full image.

Pentax K20D, ISO 800, 1/750", ~1200mm FL, and f/4...

Tim!
Posted by Kendall Hetrick on April 8, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Looks like the breakfast question is a good one. Nice shot, not sure if they just find trees with a lot of branches or if they really work at it when we are shooting them.
Posted by Kerry Leibowitz on April 14, 2009 at 11:41 AM
I like the gleam in his right eye. Image looks a bit soft, at least in this presentation. Might want to try to drag a tiny bit more detail out of that shadow on the left side of the hawk's face.